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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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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
61.850.006.203.7571.80
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.250.000.003.7511.00

11 miles with 6x 1000m intervals @ 5k pace, 90 sec rec. 

3 miles warm up.

.63 mile 5:59 pace, 1:39 rec

.62    5:58, 1:42

.62    6:05,  1:54

.62    6:07,  1:50

.62     6:08, 1:50

.62     6:16

4.75 more ez miles on JRP.

Not a great job on these today.  I usually run at 11 or 12, but didn't get out the door till about 3pm.  I just didn't feel that great today.  But at least I got it done and put in an honest effort.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
15.800.000.000.0015.80

For a change of pace I ran from work to downtown and up City Creek Canyon.  I overshot my planned 15 miles by a bit.  

Comments(11)
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.300.000.000.0010.30

am 6.6 from home. ez pace

pm 3.7 from home. ez pace.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
12.200.000.000.0012.20

JRP ez.  Here and there, alone and with company.  

I'm starting to really look forward to taper.

 

I just read a great race report from the "Pre-Regions."  It involved an elbow to the gut and a puke and pass.  :) 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.100.000.000.005.10

5 miles downtown and Memory Grove.

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Race: Greek Festival 10k (6.2 Miles) 00:40:53, Place overall: 2, Place in age division: 1
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
11.200.006.200.0017.40

Small races are often interesting and they are fun for the not supper fast runner like me.  If it is a big race I'm not at the front.  But if the race is small enough and the fast guys are elsewhere, I've got a chance to run at the front. 

The race was 4 laps around Sugar House Park, which is a hilly course.  The start of the 10k had few runners and almost all of them looked as old or older than I am.  None of them looked young and fast!  We started after the 5k which meant passing people, but that was not a problem in a race this small.  At the start I took the lead but only held it for about a 1/2 mile before being passed by one runner.  He surged ahead but never gaped my by more than 50 yards the whole race.  Every time I would start to reel him in, he would reopen the gap on a downhill.  This race coming at the end of a 70+ mile week meant my legs were far from fresh and I could never quite catch back up.  On the last uphill of the last lap I started getting closer and closer but I just couldn't seem to power down the last downhill and he beat me across the line by probably 5 or 10 seconds (results aren't up yet). 

At the finish a strange thing happened, some guy was all excited and started talking to me about how he runs 6 miles in 50 minutes on the treadmill but the adrenaline really must have kicked in because it was a race.  I asked if he ran the 5k and he showed me his RunnerCard results which said he was 1st in the 10k with a time of 35:xx!  I asked if he really took off at the start and he said no, he was behind me and the guy in the blue shirt (the guy who beat me) and must have passed us somewhere.  Long story short, the guys in the pace car never saw him pass, the guy in the blue shirt never saw him pass, I never saw him pass, and he runs a 50+ minute 10k on a treadmill, but he had convinced himself he just ran a 10k at a 5:40ish pace and won!  Oh well he seemed so excited about it, there wasn't any prize money or anything, and it just really didn't matter.  Neither the guy in the blue shirt nor I said anything more and Mr. Speedy took home his prize. 

So, should I have reported him?  Was it unfair to the guy in 3rd?  Did anyone really care in a small race like this?  Will the guy ever realize that he only ran 3 laps?  Will he wonder why he is so much slower in his next race? 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
61.850.006.203.7571.80
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