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Firecracker 5K

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2007 St. George Marathon 2:32:06 (marathon PR)

2014 St. George Marathon 2:32:45 (close to old PR...7 years later!)

2014 Boston Marathon, 2:39:00, 298th OA, 8th AG, 1st Idahoan

2013 Lake Lowell Marathon, 2:48:34 (Course Record), 1st Overall (#6)

2012 Boston Marathon, 2:43:26 (HOT!!), 114th OA, 9th Master OA, 1st Idahoan

2010 B&A Trail Marathon (MD), 2:40:18, 1st Overall (#3), Master's Course Record (still!)

2010 Mesa Falls Marathon, 2:48:55, 1st Overall (#4)

2009 Pocatello Marathon, 2:37:22, 1st Overall (#2)

2011 The M.A.D. Marathon, 2:55:14, 1st OA (training run) (#5)

2006 Teton Dam Marathon, 2:50:48 1st Overall (#1)

2015 Hood to Coast Relay (195 miles), 1st Masters Team (6th OA), 19:59:57, 6:03 avg pace for the team

2008 Ragner Relay Del Sol (182 mile relay) 1st place team 17:04:37, 5:38 pace avg for the team

50,000 lifetime miles from spring 2000 to October 2019. Computer logged 50,000 miles from Jan 2005 to September 12, 2020.

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I started running competitively in 2005 and ran my first marathon in 2005. Now retired from competitive racing.

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Fri, Jul 04, 2008

Race: Firecracker 5K (3.1 Miles) 00:17:03, Place overall: 3, Place in age division: 1

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
6.10	0.00	3.50	0.00	9.60

3.5 warmup on my way to the Firecracker 5K run along the parade route this morning. Threw in a couple of 0.2M pickups at about 5:10-5:30 pace. Overall feeling pretty good and fairly peppy.

Firecracker 5K -

Got to the race and was looking around for the competition. I see Alex Nielson and some high school kids who look well trained. Don't see Ken Richardson this year, but do see Dustin Bybee, a recent grad of BYU who just moved to IF...uh-oh!

At the start, I am standing with Alex and a young kids is next to us talking about his camp and his race. We tell him to stand to the side so he doesn't get run over, but he doesn't do it. At the gun, about 5 little kids take off at a 5:30 pace and are just getting under foot and burning themselves out, so I kick it up to clear them and for the first 2/3 mile am running in front with about 4 guys right with me. At 2/3 mile mark, a couple of young guys and Dustin pass me and run as a group, for the rest of the run I am by myself in between the groups. 1M in 5:23, then the same thing that happened last year appeared again...an unexplainable slow mile 2 at 5:42. No reason, just slow. Dustin is pulling away but second and third are not gaining. At the 2.5M mark, third place is coming back, I pass him and tries to surge to keep up. I put my head down and push a bit more and drop him and start to track down 2nd. Mile 3 in 5:28 and last 0.1M in 28 seconds not quite catching 2nd place.

Overall: 17:03 and 3rd place. Disappointed with the time as I was shooting for a 16:30ish, took the first mile slow, but I don't know why I ran such a slow 2nd mile.

Afterwards, ran a 1M cooldown with Alex, chatted with Dustin (5000M PR of 14:12 this spring!) and his wife (who took 1st women!) for a bit, talked with Jeff Fogg and others whom I knew in the race then ran home (2M) to get the family and bike back to watch the parade.

Happy 4th of July everyone.

(Tangents - 232 miles)

Comments

From JimF on Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 14:58:49

I know it is disappointing to not hit your time goal but 1st place in your division and third overall sounds pretty solid! Nice race!

From wheakory on Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 15:51:34

Nothing to be disappointed about that was a good race, and in hot temperatures for that time of morning. The second mile is it uphill at all or a change in grade? Have a great July 4th.

From Jon on Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 11:17:41

Nice race, even though it didn't go quite like you wanted.

With the whole bruised foot thing we were talking about during the run today- did you find any treatments that work? Ice? Salt soak? Or just give it time to heal and don't tighten the laces too much?

From jtshad on Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 15:12:35

Jon, I found that just given it time to heal and loosen the laces worked. I don't know if icing would help or not (ibuprofen helped too!).

Thanks for the run and great conversation this morning!

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