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Salt Lake City Half

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Location:

Salt Lake City,UT,

Member Since:

Nov 14, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

50k:  4:59 at Buffalo Run in 2010  (32 miles)

Marathon:  3:01 at St. George in 2009!

Half:  1:29 at Painter's/ St. George in 2009.  1:27 at Salt Lake in 2009 (aided course)

10k: 40:53 Greek Festival 10k at Sugar House park in 2010.

5miles: 32:10 Dam 2 Dam in 2009.  Master's winner.

5k: 20:00:00  19:54 in May 2010.

2008:  Ran the Slam + Boston

I need to update this!

Short-Term Running Goals:

Carpe Diem.

Don't trip over my own feet.

Long-Term Running Goals:

Keep running.

Personal:

1 wife

1 girl child

1 boy child

1 big dog

1 little dog

I'm a geologist for my day job.

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Race: Salt Lake City Half (13.1 Miles) 01:27:40, Place overall: 59, Place in age division: 7
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
0.5013.100.000.0013.60

I've been training for a full trail marathon next Saturday but most of my lunch time running buddies were running the Salt Lake Half, so I caved to peer pressure and ran it this morning. My goal time? I didn't have one but figured with the net ~600 feet of down hill I should be able to beat my 1:29:xx at Painters and still save something for next Saturday.

It was an ideal morning for a race. A few clouds and temps in the mid 40s. I took Trax to the start and made it to the very crowded starting line with about 3 minutes to spare. Yikes! Anyway we started right on time. I gotta say, despite all the bad press I really enjoyed this race. The 1/2 course is very nice and this years organization for the 1/2 was great! I ran smart and stayed strong to the end and even feel like I will be ready for next Saturday. All my running friends also had great days! :D

1 - 6:43 165 bpm
2 - 6:33 168 bpm
3 - 6:33 169 bpm
4 - 6:56 171 bpm
5 - 6:45 172 bpm
6 - 6:37 172 bpm
7 - 6:39 173 bpm
8 - 6:44 173 bpm
9 - 6:48 175 bpm
10- 6:51 170 bpm
11- 6:39 177 bpm
12- 7:15 175 bpm Up State Street and uphill to South Temple (These last miles were different from last time I ran this.)
13- 6:11 178 bpm Downhill!
.1ish- 5:40 185bpm. Kicked it in.

1:27:40 ?(I need to check the results when posted online) 172bpm ave
60th overall? (Where did all these fast people come from?)
7th in 40-44 age group?

Comments
From Burt on Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 11:17:21 from 98.167.151.26

Awesome time. Pretty consistent miles, too.

From Teena on Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 11:27:01 from 71.134.43.125

Fly,

You are so stinkin' fast!!!

Yeah ... you are more than ready for your trail race.

Hope you are having a fantastic Sunday!!!

Congrats!

From Kelli on Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 11:49:44 from 71.219.84.84

What an awesome race! I agree, it was a very well organized race and a nice course. You did great for just caving into peer pressure! Best of luck to you next week on your race.

From Steve P on Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 16:06:48 from 66.60.123.236

Great race! Good luck on your full next week!

From RviertonPaul on Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 22:21:50 from 75.169.16.53

Way to go.

From huans32 on Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 08:42:36 from 138.64.2.76

WOOT WOOT WOOT WOOT!!! Look at those splits man. Man your consistant. Great job on that speedy half. Your going to do awesome on the trail next weekend.

From Matt on Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 14:48:15 from 206.205.188.163

Fly great! job you inspire me.

From fly on the wall on Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 22:50:50 from 166.70.192.189

Thank you all for the kind words.

From montelepsy on Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 15:56:42 from 155.85.58.253

When I grow up, I want to be like you and I'm not talking about being a fast runner. I'm all about geology. Nice job on your training run. I wish I could run a 5k at that speed.

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