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Location:

Salt Lake City,UT,USA

Member Since:

Jul 23, 2006

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

5k 16:16 / 10k 33:12 / half marathon 1:12:28/ marathon 2:32:59/ 100 miles: 34 hours, nine minutes (Wasatch 100).

Short-Term Running Goals:

Compress six months of marathon training into six weeks.

Long-Term Running Goals:

Stay curious.

Personal:

I'm an attorney in Salt Lake City. Married to Heather. We have two little boys.


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Sat, Aug 26, 2006
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
5.000.0013.100.000.0018.10

Hobble Creek Half Marathon, 1:12:38. 5th place overall, behind Superfly.

Here are my splits: 5:20/5:20/5:14/4:55 (short)/5:39(long)/5:15/5:49/5:23/5:58/5:51/5:37/5:40/5:59 (for the last 1.1)

My strategy was to push hard through he first six downhill miles and see how it went after that. I slowed considerably after that but stayed pretty strong. In the last mile, Clyde passed me and I didn't really mind, I was looking forward to finishing and just wanted to focus on hanging in there for the rest of my race. The last few miles were tough!

Ran a warm up mile before the race and Casey and I added another four extremely easy miles in Mapleton after the race.

Comments
From Sasha Pachev on Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 17:21:58

Good job on a new PR!

From Superfly on Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 21:22:17

Chad you ran strong and really scared me through the middle of the race. I was exited to meet you. I had no idea it was you during the race.

Anyways good job. Hope to run with you at STGM.

From Chad on Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 21:23:07

Thanks Sasha. I didn't think I could get into the 1:12 range, but I went out relatively fast and managed to hang on.

From Chad on Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 21:49:15

Clyde; you scared me in the last mile! Seems like we may be in the same range at STGM. What's your strategy in that race, as far as the first and second half? Sasha, if you have thoughts on that, let me know too.

From Sasha Pachev on Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 11:43:55

The key to running well in St. George is to bring fresh legs to the 13 mile mark when the serious downhill starts. It is very important to be somewhat coherent at 20, because that is where you can really get going. If you can, you will run about 2 minutes faster than an ideal sea-level course. Otherwise, it can be as much as 10 minutes slower.

Never mind your mile splits at any point in the race. The terrain varies enough to make them useless unless you know that course very very well. There are a few flat/uphill miles, and on those you truly get what you deserve at this elevation, which will be awefully slow. Then there are downhill miles that are plain scary. In 2004, I ran the 15th mile in 5:07, and I got passed by Charles Wallace as if I were standing.

You should just put an honest even effort on every mile, and take what the terrain will give you. Even effort will make your second half about 2 minutes faster than the first.

What I suggest you guys do is find each other at the start and trade leads every 3 minutes or so. If somebody else is with you, invite them to join you.

From Chad on Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 12:33:02

Thanks, Sasha; that approach makes a lot of sense and is consistent with other advice I've received. Hopefully Clyde will join me. I think we're probably fairly close in our target times and it would make sense to work together from the start.

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