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Extra Yard 5k

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Location:

Seattle,WA,

Member Since:

Dec 30, 2007

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

2019: 10:29 2 mile, 16:33 5k, 27:14 8k, 55:50 15K, 1:16:04 HM

Post Mayan Apocalypse PRs:

200 31.13 (2016, ATC all comers)

400 69.96 (2015, ATC all comers)

800 2:19 (2016, ATC all comers)

Mile 4:58 (2017, ATC all comers)

3000 9:34 (2017, ATC all comers)

2mile 10:29 (2019, CNW Grand Prix)

5000 16:33.6 (2019, CNW all comers)

5k 16:50 (2018, Green Lake Gobble)

8k 27:14 (2019, Beat the Bridge)

10K 35:16 (2017, Eastside Beltline)

15K 55:10 (2018, Magnuson Park Memorial Day)

10-mile 60:29 (2017, Atlanta 10 mile)

HM 1:16:04 (2019, Lake Sammamish Half)

30K 2:01:56 (2014, Striders WRC 30K)

Mar 2:50:07 (2013, Sojo Marathon)

Fiddy "Classic" Accomplishments (before I forget)

2:03 800, 4:11 1500, 9:47 3200, 15:26 5000, 32:30 10000, 1:11:15 HM (unaided), 2:32 marathon (Boston)

Seattle Half Marathon '08-'11: 2nd (1:13), 4th (1:11), 5th (1:14), 2nd (1:13)

2nd MI half 2010 (1:11)

10th Seattle RNR 2009 (2:35)

97th Overall @ Boston 2010 (2:32)

2011 3rd Place @ Des News (2:35) and Top of Utah (2:33)

I once beat 14 year-old Connor Mantz (2011 Utah Valley Half 1:11) and 16 year-old Ben Saarel (2011 Flat as a pancake 16:23 in the f-ing snow)

2011 Salt Lake Half 1st place (1:14), Capitol Half 1st place (1:14), Provo City 4th place (1:16, unaided)

2011 Ragnar Ultra 1st place Wasatch Back Relay

7th place SLC half 2009 (1:11)

2009 Fremont 5k 16:00, 2010 Dart Challenge 16:05, 2011 Draper Days 16:02

2009 Running of the Leopards 15:03, aided

2009 Striders 10mile 1st place (58 mins)

2007 3rd place SCIAC 5k 15:26

2006 D3XC nationals, 184th (of 280)

Short-Term Running Goals:

5/18 Bart the Brodge

6/9 RicknRail Murothin

Long-Term Running Goals:

get busy living or get busy dying

Personal:

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Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	0.00
Adizero Rocket Lifetime Miles:						323.35
Asics Hyperspeed Lifetime Miles:						369.13
Mizuno Waverider Lifetime Miles:						509.70
Adistar Ride Lifetime Miles:						520.40
Saucony Type A Lifetime Miles:						253.60
Adistar Rideb Lifetime Miles:						236.30
Waveriderb Lifetime Miles:						466.70
Nimbus Lifetime Miles:						570.30
WhiteHyperspeed Lifetime Miles:						268.50
RedFree Lifetime Miles:						405.55
Saucony Hattori Lifetime Miles:						46.10
NimbusFIRE Lifetime Miles:						260.50
WhiteHyper2 Lifetime Miles:						100.20
WaveriderC Lifetime Miles:						203.95
NimbusVampire Lifetime Miles:						357.50
CelticMirage Lifetime Miles:						312.00
NeonFree Lifetime Miles:						17.80
Nimbus FireB Lifetime Miles:						2.50
Nimbus FireC Lifetime Miles:						0.00

Sun, Jan 07, 2018

Race: Extra Yard 5k (3.107 Miles) 00:17:27, Place overall: 10

Total Distance

8.00

College football playoff 5k. The winner got two tickets to the national championship game, essentially a $3000 prize for first place (men +women). So even though it was cold (about 25F) at the start, there was plenty of competition.

I got out really slowly and was in about 50th place at the first turn. Moved up to catch a big pack of women at the mile (5:20), including 2:43 marathoner Lacey Krout. The men's leaders were looooong gone as 8 guys were through the mile in sub 5 and the leaders were probably sub 4:30. First mile was very downhill and thus really fast.

I caught Bridget Lyons (1:13/2:35 elite woman+UGA grad) just after the mile, but she was having none of that and surged. We stayed together for about half a mile until I took the lead going up a slight hill. The only person within striking distance was another woman wearing Clemson gear. I hit the second mile in 11:04, Bridget and I passed the Clemson woman. She was now in 1st place and I was still just some schmuck.

We saw Allie at about mile 2.2 and she cheered for Bridget, prompting her to surge ahead of me again. The last mile of this race manages to be all uphill so the time was slow. Bridget and I went back and forth a little bit before she put on the after burners in the last 400m. She ran 17:23, I'm not really sure what my time was yet, but I was only a couple of seconds behind.

Men's race was won by Rob Mullet (a 2016 olympian from the UK) in 14:40.

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Comments

From Mike on Sun, Jan 07, 2018 at 09:49:05 from 96.59.32.112

Great race report! Now go warm up...

From Rob Murphy on Sun, Jan 07, 2018 at 16:19:51 from 67.166.78.47

Rub Mullet?

From Glory in the long run on Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 06:44:25 from 67.2.30.239

Awesome race report. Sounds like Bridget is a tough cookie, surging to take you out of it mentally.

Nice Queen video awhile back, Breakthrough, thanks for putting that little gem in there.

From Rob Murphy on Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 08:10:28 from 163.248.33.220

I actually googled Rub Mullet and found some tasty sounding recipes.

From allie on Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 09:35:28 from 172.4.198.186

that's actually a perfect james story that he once raced against a smoked fish

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