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St. George City Midnight 5K

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Location:

La Verkin,UT,USA

Member Since:

Feb 17, 2005

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

Post College

10K- 33:49 (Enterprise 09')

Half Marathon-1:16:29- (Hobblecreek 06')

Marathon 2:44:59 (St. George 07')

Personal:

I live in La Verkin, Utah. My wife, Sunny and I have 3 boys and 1 special little girl
I teach 7th grade Utah History at Hurricane Intermediate School and Driver's Education at Millcreek High School.

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Miles:This week: 7.00 Month: 66.00 Year: 194.00
Hoka Torrent Orange Lifetime Miles: 208.00
Hoka Rincon 2 Black Lifetime Miles: 211.00
Hoka Rincon 2 Red Lifetime Miles: 148.00
Hoka Mach 4 Teal Lifetime Miles: 72.00
Hoka Mach 4 Black Lifetime Miles: 128.00
Black Nike Pegasus 37 Lifetime Miles: 28.00
Race: St. George City Midnight 5K (3.1 Miles) 00:42:00, Place overall: 54, Place in age division: 7
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
12.500.000.000.000.0012.50

Easy 4 miles this morning legs sore from hill workout yesterday.

Well, tonight was the big Midnight 5K. I helped pace a guy named Brett Giles (Turbo!), he has a few learning disabilities, but he is a great guy and was a crowd favorite. He was so pumped up to do this race, and was very excited that I agreed to run with him. We got to the race about a hour before it started. We picked up our numbers and then got busy putting glow in the dark hair gel on and getting our glow sticks ready. We met up with Mike (Bigfoot!) Bill (Wildbull), and Mike neighbor Art (King Arthur). Anyway, had a lot of fun visiting before the race and listening to Brett crack everyone up, this he did between downing power bars.

Before the race started I assured Brett again that we were going at his pace, when he felt like running we would run, when he felt like walking we would walk, and when he felt like going Turbo, we could go Turbo.

Brett decided before the race that he would dedicate different parts to different people

First part dedicated to his mom

13:02- First mile started off pretty good and we probably ran almost .25 before we stopped and walked a little. Had lots of people passing us but it was all good. We had a lot of fun yelling at the police officers that were helping by riding along on their bikes. Brett said "Hey why don't you get off your bike and run with us"

Second part dedicated to my wife Sunny

Did a little more running and yelled at race director Aaron and his cool shirt.

13:29- Good second mile. I tell Brett he is doing great and we are right on pace (even though we hadn't even talked about running a certain time or pace)

Third part dedicated to the frogs that were croaking loud. We counted a total of at least 4 ponds on the course.

Fourth part dedicated to Elvis

Stopped and walked some more on the fairways, then picked it up pretty good while singing some Elvis songs.

Fifth part dedicated to the Transformers

Stopped at the aid station for awhile and drank some Gator Aid then we continued on.

Sixth part dedicated to Brett's sister

We did pretty good on the last loop, Brett was mainly concerned with saving up some energy for the Turbo at the end.

Last part dedicated to us. We did it!

14:42- good last mile

.1 42 SECONDS OF FULL TURBO HERE !!!!

Overall, lots of fun

Brett came in just ahead of me breaking 42:00 and placing 6th in our age group and I was 42:02 7th in the age group.

The awards were fun and lots of laughs with everyone.

Brett got a ride home with Brandon and then me, Mike, and Bill went and ran another 5.5 in like 43 minutes.

Fun times got home at 2:30 in the morning and then got up to help the Superfly with the big move!


Nimbus Miles: 4.00Blue Stratus Miles: 8.50
Weight: 150.00
Comments
From neumannator on Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 21:05:57 from 71.213.64.7

Dustin, how long is each hill repeat? Pa Tempe hill is pretty steep isn't it?

From Holt on Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 17:59:21 from 71.213.8.108

Nice job Dustin - that is really giving back and very cool. How do you Brett?

From TylerS on Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 23:43:49 from 66.119.143.249

Great job Dustin. That is a great race report. I bet that was an awesome experience.

From Mike Warren on Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 00:52:13 from 208.117.124.133

Dustin, I had a blast with you guys at this race! You are one cool dude. Thanks for the run after, always a treat to run with you and the Bull.

From Superfly on Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 09:32:01 from 74.211.95.149

Good job Dustin. Thanks so much for your help on Sat and for the In-and-Out card... Um.

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