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Location:

Preston,Id,USA

Member Since:

Mar 09, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Age Division Winner

Running Accomplishments:


2009 TOU Half Marathon 1:25:06

2010 St George Painter's Half Marathon 1:25:24

2011 Jan. St George [Painter's] Half Marathon different course 1:25:28

2011 Apr. Boston Marathon 3:03:24

2011 May Ogden 5K 18:18

2011 July 4th 15K Freedom Run 58:53

2011 July Deseret News 10K 37:12

2011 Oct St George Marathon 2:58:18

Short-Term Running Goals:

Sub 18 min. 5k

1:24  Half

 Sub 3 at St George in Oct.

Get injury free and stay that way

Set new PRs at all distances now that I'm 50

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

17:30 5K

2:50 marathon

Personal:

I was born in 1960

I started running in 2006

I am married with a 16 year old son [that lives with my wife and I] and a 30 year old step son and 25 year old step daughter

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Race: Deseret News 10K (6.2 Miles) 00:38:16, Place in age division: 6
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.800.006.200.000.0011.00

     I went down to salt lake Thursday afternoon and the temperature was over 100 deg. I spent the night at my parents house in Sandy and when I got up at 4 AM the temp was 78 deg. I'm used to Our Cache valley mornings in the 50s. After I got to the race I  warmed up for 1.6 miles. I got lined up about 5 min before the race was supposed to start and I was just dripping sweat already in the middle of the big crowd of bodies. The race started about 10 min late and it felt so good to finally get going and get some air moving as some space was finally created between runners. The first 2 miles have the most downhill and I hit those in 5:52 and 5:53. My 3rd mile was 6:20. There was some uphill on this mile but also enough downhill that it shouldn't have been this slow. Mile 4 was 6:15. Mile 5 was 6:11. During mile 6 the race turns east and goes uphill the last 5 blocks. On this part I was feeling pretty good and passed several other people. This mile was 6:24 and my last .2 [.22 according to my Garmin] I ran at 5:57 pace. This was my first 10k so it was a pr. I'm pretty happy with how it went but I think I could have kept miles 3,4,and 5 all under 6:10 which would have kept me under 38 min. I ran into some other Cache Valley bloggers after the race Jon, Cody, and Scott. I talked to Mark  and met Adam. It was a fun race and I'd like to try it again [especially if it were 10 deg cooler]. After watching some of the first marathoners come in I ran 3.2 back up to the start to get my car. I was surprised how fresh I felt running back to the car and figured I must not have run the race quite as hard as I could have.

Comments
From Adam RW on Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 17:14:45 from 155.101.152.103

I second the 10 degrees cooler remark. Nice to meet you and looking forward to next year.

From Jon on Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 23:10:51 from 75.169.150.167

It was good seeing you again yesterday. Nice job even with the high temp. Are you doing TOU 1/2 or TOU marathon?

From redrooster on Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 23:42:50 from 71.219.156.139

nice run Dave, and glad we could all meet up at the end. We did well putting two Cache valley bloggers in the top 10 of our age group! I think I will sign up for the TOU half, hope to see you there.

From Dave S on Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 22:01:22 from 4.254.225.2

Yes I am planning to run TOU half. Probably see you guys there.

From jeffc on Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 11:20:18 from 167.207.128.101

That's a great time and now you have a 10K PR to try and improve on. Can't believe the temp was 78 at that time of the morning, that is just nasty for up there.

From Matt on Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 12:23:04 from 65.121.71.253

Dave,

Great Race! You are putting in some great mileage. We will have to find each other before a race sometime. I'll have to tell Kent we know each other. I will be at TOU as well but I have promised my wife to run it with her.

From Sasha Pachev on Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 15:23:42 from 64.81.245.109

This is very encouraging. Shows you can run a good marathon with proper training, just a matter of time.

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