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Striders Half Marathon

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Location:

Draper,Ut,USA

Member Since:

Oct 27, 2012

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Age Division Winner

Running Accomplishments:

I was a decent runner when I was younger, now just loving the second wind in life...

Short-Term Running Goals:

Boston Marathon - 3:04:21 3112th/1978thAG

 

 

 

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

Enjoy running with the Kenyans again...

Personal:

Work Hard, Play Harder and Have Fun! Make It Happen...

This is my mantra... 

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Race: Striders Half Marathon (13.1 Miles) 01:28:16, Place overall: 33, Place in age division: 6
Total Distance
15.10

Striders Half Marathon MP workout. 

I was able to spend the night at Van Beekum's residence. I ran 5 easy Frudat morning with some striders at the end of the run and the very last step I took my right glute got really tight for some reason. I thought it was just something that would go away but it didn't. Any how, I knew Allie would be going out with the same game plan as I wanted to do. MP to HMP so I thought I would just work with her. It was very easy to run with Allie. We started out conservatively and progressively picked it up. By mile 5 though my right glute felt like it was tightening up. At 5.5 I told Allie to go on without me. I slowed down to try and see if this would back off the pain. It did. Jason Holt circled back around from doing a 6 mile tempo run to come run with me. I had planned to run 6:00 min pace here but I couldn't manage to run any faster than 6:40's because my hip and glute would just tighten up. So I told Jason that I just wanted to keep the effort here the rest of the way and that's would I did. Nothing I could do. Wasn't planing on racing this half. Just thought the course simulated the Boston Marathon well bad that I could get in a good tempo tune up one last time. I couldn't cool down like I wanted because of the tightness so I bagged it. I enjoyed talking to many friends. My friend Ali came to watch me finish. She's a sweetie. Congrats to Scott for a big win and great time on this course. This course is very honest and a great run. So many others had great runs too. Bryant, Ben, Fritz, Jace, Josh E., Walter, James, Devra, Sariah and Allie all had great races. Fun to hang with these guys and learn from them. Goegeous course and the weather was fantastic this morning. Thoroughly enjoyed the run. I talked with Allie and Jason the whole time and even though I didn't accomplish what I wanted exactly, I did the best I could with the circumstances. Hope to get this twinge figured out quickly with two weeks til the marathon. 6:45AP 

Comments
From allie on Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 10:47:43 from 174.27.220.148

nice job, spencer. way to maintain the effort and finish this out. i am sorry your glute was uncooperative, but it was smart not to push through that. it was great running with you for those first five miles -- you really helped me stay relaxed and keep a good pace. fun day, and a big thanks to mother nature for being so kind to us!

let's get that lefty loop run planned. but most importantly...take extra care of the hips/glutes and get yourself to boston feeling good!

From Rachelle on Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 10:08:56 from 199.190.170.30

Good call at listenning to your body Spence. The main goal is Boston and I think you made the right decision.

Glad you enjoyed the race and I hope that glute it feeling better.

From mike⇒nelson on Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 13:14:55 from 67.177.49.132

Wise race Spencer. Relax and get healthy.

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