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Dogtown,Ut,

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Jan 02, 2006

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Running Accomplishments:

PRs: 2:26:29 marathon @ St.George '14; 1:09:55 1/2 mar. '08; 31:00 10k '07

Short-Term Running Goals:

Love running now.

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Love running forever!

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My perfect day would include a run through the desert, time with my wife and girls, tasty homemade meals, and a nice nap in the middle.

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Mon, Sep 10, 2007

Total Distance

15.00

AM - 10 6x1200's. Started with a short warmup of 1.5 - Hart's (should have been more, but I didn't have time). Then into the 1200's on the track with a 200 between each. Goal was to hit these at marathon pace 5:35-5:40. Nothing too quick to kill me, but get back some quicker pace that I've felt I have lost. So the times should be at 4:15. 1-4:20 A little slow, but still warming up. 2-4:22 slipped a little on the 2nd and 3rd laps. 3-4:20 made a effort to work on the 2nd and 3rd laps. Wasn't really killing myself, but my body really didn't feel like giving me a lot - This is one reason I am excited to cut my miles a little this week. 4-4:15 Still working on the 3rd lap, but also went out harder. 5-4:17 Tried to connect all three laps, but 2nd slipped. 6-4:17 Now feel like I am working a bit harder, but not all out. Cooled off with 3 on the AC. (cumulus red 330.35)

I guess this is one area I feel like I am not as strong at this year. In marathon preps past, I have really had a much stronger speed base with 800's. But this year, I have focused a lot more on mileage - which I had analyzed to be my major weakness - leaving a hole in the speed training. So it has me a little nervous, but I think/hope that my mileage and attempting to have more of a tempo focus will pay off.

PM - 5 Washington Parkway. Felt a little zing in my legs and let myself go with it. Didn't time the run, but the pace was decent - not MP or anything, but a nice quickness to it. (Landreth 429.7)

Comments

From Wildbull on Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 15:58:38

Good work out Dave. I think you will do great at the marathon. Sorry to hear about the Bus Saturday. You missed a nice work out with the club.

From Dave Holt on Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 16:51:56

Yeah what a bummer. The kids were pretty disappointed (the ones that care!) and I think they would have run well. Oh well, what can you do.

From Sasha Pachev on Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 17:46:40

Dave - unless you've lost something big time since Provo River Half, your speed should be OK. You were running 5:20s in a half-marathon even when it was almost flat. You may have an issue with the sense of pace, though. Remember that when you're fit, marathon pace hurts, even from mile 1!

From Dave Holt on Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 09:26:57

Sasha, I think that you hit it right on the head! The pace and the numbers just seem so incredibly fast to me that I'm have some doubts and fears enter my head. When you said after Provo that I could hit a 2:23 or so, the immediate thought that entered my head was, "No way can I hit a 1:13 after what I just did." How can I overcome that in the next few weeks. Not even necessarily to hit a 2:23 but at 2:25/27 even sub 30? Help me! I'm already feeling like Clyde and the race is still a month away!

From Sasha Pachev on Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 11:52:14

Dave, read Alma 57:47: Now they never had fought, yet they did not fear death; and they did think more upon the liberty of their fathers than they did upon their lives; yea, they had been taught by their mothers, that if they did not doubt, God would deliver them. I would approach St. George from a different point of view. You can run it for time next year. This is the year to run it to conquer fear. Even if you bonk and die, the experience and the memory of being with the pack that qualified will be something that will mentally revamp you in the next year. I can remember an similar experience that I consider to be one of the defining moments in my running career, as well as life in general. In 1999 in the Provo Freedom Run 10 K at the 2 mile mark I heard a loud police siren. It was louder than I had ever heard, because I had never been that close to the leader in a race that was big enough to have a siren-wailing police escort. I looked at my split, it was 10:10. I looked at the pack I was with - I was out of my league. A thought came to me - you are in a lion's den. It was followed by another - that is ok, you belong here because you are a baby lion. I cannot possibly describe in words the significance of this experience on my future training and racing, but I can tell you that without it things would not be the same, I would not have reached the level I am at now.

From Superfly on Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 11:59:23

Hey I'm not freaking out...yet. Actually I'm pretty confident about the race this year. I'm going to try and keep things controled the first half and then unleash a lion the second half... at least maybe a baby lion.

From Wildbull on Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 12:05:51

look at what you have done this year! You have nothing to prove to anyone but yourself. You have the times from past races. Your body knows how to run fast. you have done the training. you have skill and ability. Run your own race! you will be amazed how good you will do.

From Lybi on Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 14:03:23

Holt, you're amazing. You know it, we know it--everybody knows it. You're gonna fly, so save all your adrenaline for October 6th when it will actually help, ok?

From James on Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 21:43:41

Do you ever run with your kids(cross country)?

From Dave Holt on Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 09:35:53

On our morning runs (3xweek) I will run with them. But other than that it is hard. It is SO HOT down here I still have to take water out to them.

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