| Location: Dogtown,Ut, Member Since: Jan 02, 2006 Gender: Male Goal Type: Other 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. Long-Term Running Goals: Love running forever! Personal: 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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| | afternoon - 13.65 Bank run reverse and Nisson's. Ran the bank run a little before practice started to get a few extra miles in as this afternoon was going to be busy. Then as team warmed up, I kept going and added a few big loops. Then Ruth, Kimz, Austin and I ran Nisson's with a detour into the desert above the Fire Station and a lap around Sandberg's Pond to add a few more miles. Nice easy pace run into a little different area than usual. (Precision 254.3)
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| | PM - 12 on Treadmill. Sick family meant heading home right after school so my wife could go to the doctor. Her and my youngest have strep. Eventually I was able to get my run in - on the treadmill so I could help out if needed. Turned on some tunes and a b-ball game and set off. Eventually I turned it up to 6:40 and started a climb, from 1%-5% for each mile and then back down, finishing with a 1% mile at 6:00 and a cooldowner at back at 6:40. It was a good workout, the best I have had on the treadmill in some time. (Cumulus orange 439.45) | | Comments(2) |
| | afternoon - 9 Shnobe Kibe. Good run if I wouldn't have been frozen. Of all the days to forget a long sleeve shirt! The temps were in the low 30's, but the wind chill was a bit on the cold side. It was so windy that not only did it nearly blow me over running into it - literally - but going with it, I could feel it pushing me along with quite a force (I was hitting 6:00 with about a 7:30 effort). Then I woke to find half of my fence blown over, that will be a fun one to fix. (Cumulus silver 372.75) Planned on running about 5-6 more in the evening, but I was feeling pretty sick to my stomach, so I passed.
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| | evening - 7.25 Club run, SCHS loop. For the most part took it pretty easy and tried to get ready to race. Hit 2 miles in the middle at 4:58 and 5:20. The hard pace really got me feeling and thinking about racing - and ready mentally. I think all should go well. I am in better shape than last year, and last year I was pretty sick for a week up to race day. All I can do is go run strong and set myself up for a good time. (Precision 261.55) | | Comments(6) |
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afternoon - 8.5 Grapevine and to Highland Park for 4x75 barefoot grass striders and then another .6 barefoot on the grass. Then back home. Scared the big owl out of his tree out at Grapevine - pretty cool. Ready to go for tomorrow. (Stratus 237.3)
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Painter's Half Marathon (13.1 Miles) 01:10:38, Place overall: 4, Place in age division: 2 | |
Got to the race and did a warmup of just over 2 miles in my Stratus and got ready to run. Wished Ally good luck on her 5K (30:50 5K PR!) and did a few run outs and got ready to go. Cool, but not really too bad. New the race would be tough with 2 Oly Trials Qualifiers (Logan and Nick M.), plus Sasha and a few others. But I planned on going out a solid, but not killer pace and hit a good solid time. Here's the race report:
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Total
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1 – 5:33
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5:33
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Planned off taking off at a strong but relaxed pace – and this fit the plan perfectly.
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2 – 5:35
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11:07
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Switching quarters with the pack – only because the pace was where I wanted.
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3 – 5:19
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16:26
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We started to pick it up coming down River Road and onto the trail
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4 – 5:12
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21:47
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Nick makes a couple moves and looks strong, but most of the pack is going with him – only Karl Wilcock had dropped.
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5 – 5:25
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27:12
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Carefully crossed bridge, but should have warned Nick and Logan of the next one. Held pace pretty good up and through Bloomington Hills. Glen falls off around here I think.
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6 – 5:09
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32:21
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Again Nick started to bring pace back down. I slipped back about 5 ft. but made sure I closed it back up.
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7 – 5:20
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37:41
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Nick and Logan gap Sasha and I a little after their big falls – kind of scary, but in retrospect a very funny sight to see them both flying through the air parallel with the ground!
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8 – 5:32
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43:13
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Sasha and I worked together to keep going on the miles down to Bloomington; I wanted to close back on Nick and Logan as they were only about 20 feet up on us for a while, but Sasha thought we should stay. Probably better in the long run, but now I’ll never know ‘cause I didn’t go with it. I think I should have, even if it only lasted for another mile or so.
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9 – 5:35
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48:48
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Slowed a little climbing up onto the Bloom. Loop and Sasha pulled away. I told myself to keep him about 5-10 seconds ahead on the loop and then I would close it on the trail back.
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10 – 5:27
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54:15
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I let Sasha get a little too far up, probably about 20 seconds.
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11 – 5:36
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59:52
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The legs are really feeling the burn, and the counter they put on my plan to pull Sasha back was winning.
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12 – 5:34
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1:05:26
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An up an down mile. I would get strong mentally to go get Sasha and then I would only gain a step and so I would back off. Then I would say go for it and try again with about the same result. Distance was running out.
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13 – 5:12
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1:10:38
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Actually 12.95 on my Garmin and most everybody hit a pretty similar distance. I decided to do one final push to Sasha around the hill and was really burning it up. Best pace for the mile shows 4:30 (although I may have only hit it for a little). I was pumping my arms so hard and breathing so heavy to try and dig something out of my legs that I kind of hyperventilated. Crossing the finish I just dropped to my knees. I couldn’t breathe and there was nothing there. I knew I should move, but couldn’t, and that made me more lightheaded and started to drop, but Ally ran over and Logan jumped in to help me.
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Was very happy with how it all turned out - with only one regret! - But felt better pretty quickly after as I relaxed and went on a cool down (2 miles) with Logan. It was the first race of the year and I ran strong, kept my head in the race for the most part and ran 4 minutes faster than last year (on the same - short - course). A great way to start the year and it got me pretty pumped up to get going strong for SLC.
Great races everyone!
(Stratus 239.4)
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