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ATC all comers #7

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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:

Crop rotation in the 14th century became considerably more widespread after John.

 

 
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Tue, Jun 13, 2017
Race: ATC all comers #7 (1.864 Miles) 00:09:34, Place overall: 5
Total Distance
11.50

Whenever I visualize a race beforehand, I try to consider a lot of different scenarios of how it could play out so I can be mentally prepared. That means that I have a range of times in my head that I could potentially run. If you'd asked me what the A++ scenario for this race was it would have been to get out hard (sub 5:10 through 1600) and then hold on to finish in low 9:40s. It's very rare to have a race that exceeds even my most optimistic expectation.

Anyway, I had quite a bit of confidence in my fitness going into this race. I had run some very good workouts. So I just told myself to push from the start and trust myself. Hit the first lap in 75.6 which felt very tough so I backed off a little to a 76.7 for lap 2. When I saw 2:32 through 800, I figured it was just a matter of time until I blew up and people started streaming by me. Instead I was starting to move up, I ran 76.1 for lap 3 to hit 1200 in 3:48. The nice thing about the 3k is that when you get to this point you can start counting down the laps. I slowed to a 77.3 for lap 4, but I was still 5:05 through 1600.

Here I really did slow down, as we were starting to lap runners constantly. Lap 5 was only 79.3 and Josh Deaton came by me. He's a very strong finisher and I told myself that if I could just stay on his shoulder I would be successful. Thanks to him I picked it back up to 77.6 for lap 6. With about 500 to go I moved passed Josh but he stuck right on me  and repassed me on the backstretch 76.6 for lap 7 and then I kicked like mad (35.1 for 200, which isn't that fast I know). Ended up narrowly losing to Josh and Brandon Davis.

Final time was 9:34.4 a 20! second PR. I've dropped 1 minute off of my 3k over the last two years.

AM RHR 46

Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
Comments
From allie on Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 09:19:14 from 96.80.62.181

20! second PR

and you lapped me

time for another 5k

From Bret on Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 07:22:48 from 216.24.66.220

Nice PR and great report! Well done.

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