Clyde's Comeback!

St. George half marathon

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Location:

St. George,UT,U.S.A

Member Since:

Apr 02, 2005

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

97th at Boston

1:09:40 Half Marathon

2:25:50 Marathon

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

Get healthy enough to enjoy a run again.

Long-Term Running Goals:

To be able to do it... long term. 

Personal:

"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the Gift" -Steve Prefontaine

Live your life. Take chances. Be crazy. Don't wait. Because right now is the oldest you've ever been and the youngest you'll be... ever again.

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Race: St. George half marathon (13.1 Miles) 01:10:27, Place overall: 5, Place in age division: 1
Total Distance
21.85

5.75 mile warm up

13.1 mile race

3 mile cool down

Met Dave, Ben and a few others at the start for a good warm up. It was 23 F and felt pretty chilly. Dropped down to Man-o-war and back with some other stuff before the race. Got in some good potty stop and was ready about 10 min's to the gun. So that was nice.

Goal for the race was to break 1:13. That was it. I didn't really taper too much as to keep it more of a good workout in prep for PHX full marathon. So I'm happy with the results. Just wanted to run within myself and make it count without giving up when it got hard.

5:23 avg

Splits: 5:18, 5:23, 5:17, 5:22, 5:20, 5:40, 5:30, 5:14, 5:16, 5:24, 5:28, 5:27, 5:22, 5:10 pace for the .1

For the first 4 miles if didn't look at the watch to see the splits. And that turned out to be good. Because I would have gone mental and started to stress about going out too fast. But I just kept it smooth, and ran with Dave and a couple of his boys who were doing a tempo workout for the first 5 with us. That kind of stressed me out and I finally told them to get away from us. Sorry guys... nothing personal.

As we started the climbs in B-hills everyone slowed on the hills and between grabing a drink and Gu, gagging the gu down and the uphill my 6th mile split was really slow. And that did stress me out. I thought it is too early to be slowing down that bad. But then on the 7th mile up the last big hill the split was pretty good at a 5:30 and I relaxed again. From the top of the last big climb to the finish I tried to push out everything I had left in the tank. Right around mile 8 Steve S. came blazing by me and I was now in 5th. I tried the rest of the race to work back up to him and 4th pace (nelson i think). But I just couldn't close the gap. Didn't have the wheels on the last two miles. My hip never had any pain. That was good. But about mile 7 it did get really tight and that moved into the hammy on the left side too. That little hitch just wouldn't allow any faster turnover. But then again I'm happy with how the race turned out. Stomach was pretty solid and in a half that's great for me.

The sun end up coming out and by mile 6 or so I had taken off the hat, gloves and arm warmers. And by the end of the race it turned out to be a really nice day... just really chilly at the start. At the end we got to watch Myler run a half mile race and that was fun to see.

Kinvara2 Miles: 13.10DS Trainer Miles: 8.75
Comments
From Fritz on Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 13:12:25 from 50.79.68.141

Great race Clyde! 90 seconds off your goal time is huge. You should have a great race at Phoenix. PR!?!

From Holt on Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 13:13:51 from 67.2.242.226

Way to go man!

From Superfly on Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 15:22:55 from 74.211.21.81

Thanks guys.

Fritz- I hope PHX is good. Maybe not a PR but I'd sure like to break 2:30.

From By-run on Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 15:25:01 from 209.33.233.252

Sorry Clyde, I had it in my mind to stay out on the side of the course and stay out of your guy's way on our tempo but it must have just skipped my mind winding through the neigborhood. Wonderfull time though! Good work!

From Superfly on Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 15:28:54 from 74.211.21.81

Your good man. It just kept throwing me off thinking you were other guys in the race.

From Jon on Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 15:44:01 from 107.203.52.135

I tapered 1:10? Wow, good job.

From Burt on Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 15:56:53 from 184.98.222.140

Nice job. I was rooting for you. See you in Phoenix. Well, Mesa.

From Matt Poulsen on Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 19:26:35 from 166.137.209.47

Great race!

From Superfly on Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 19:47:59 from 74.211.21.81

Thank You!

From Dustin on Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 19:58:05 from 209.33.192.10

Great Job Clyde! Glad you were able to have a good race.

From Steve on Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 21:14:06 from 66.87.65.111

Wow, sweet run. You are killing it this spring.

From Steve Hooper on Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 21:37:27 from 174.27.238.32

Way to go Clyde! Solid race. It's so good to see you running well without that hip/hami giving you problems. It's going to be a good year!

From Superfly on Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 11:02:26 from 74.211.21.81

Thanks boys. Wish all three of you would have been in the race.

From RileyCook on Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 11:51:52 from 172.56.15.209

Very nice race Clyde! Impressive start to your comeback year. I think you are in for a great 2014!

From scottkeate on Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 12:45:55 from 98.202.116.66

Great race, Clyde! Curious to know what you could have done had you reversed your warm-up and cool-down distances. Although, with PHX as your goal the longer warm-up made you experience running on tired legs earlier. Hat's off to a great race and beating your goal by 90 seconds.

From Christie on Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 13:06:06 from 74.213.202.246

Woot!! Running strong

From Brandon Dase on Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 06:03:01 from 67.214.231.170

Congratulations on a fantastic race Clyde!

From Superfly on Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 09:30:28 from 74.211.21.81

Thanks again for the nice words!

Scott- most likely if I flipped the warm up and cool down I'd run slower... seems I can't get going until I'm good and warm. We missed ya down here.

From Jake K on Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 15:28:35 from 199.190.170.28

Nice job man. One of your fastest 1/2s ever, right? Solid on its own, especially good for being a little race rusty!

From Superfly on Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 20:19:07 from 74.211.21.81

Thanks Jake. Yeah not my half PR but on course equivalent most likely my best half ever:). Pretty happy to be where I'm at in January.

From Paul on Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 07:33:06 from 174.29.44.114

Congrats! Non-aided PR, right? Not bad for an old man...

From Matt Schreiber on Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 08:19:05 from 66.17.107.219

Great race man! Great starting point for the year.

From Superfly on Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 09:45:58 from 74.211.21.81

Thanks Matt and Paul. Paul your right on both. Non-aided PR. and old dude:).

From jtshad on Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 15:11:54 from 141.221.191.225

Great race!

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