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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.

Logged (on computer) 49,802 miles (2 x circumference of the earth) in ~5,700 days (8/23/20)

Logged (on computer) 24,901 miles (circumference of the earth) in 2,889 days (11/29/12) http://jeff.fastrunningblog.com/blog-My-alarm-went-off-I-got-up-eventually-/11-29-2012.html

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Keep on running, enjoy it for the sake of running, relax and enjoy life...de-stress. Stay fit as I enter retirement in 2025.

No racing, retired.

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Keep running until this old body says no, running for fun.

Personal:

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

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Listen closely to my prayer, O Lord;
hear my urgent cry.
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and you will answer me. - Psalm 86:1-7

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Wed, Jul 04, 2007

Race: Firecracker 5K (3.1 Miles) 00:17:05, Place overall: 4, Place in age division: 1

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
2.00	0.00	4.10	0.00	6.10

4th overall, 1st in class. Winner was Ken Richardson out of Ogden (wife Janae won the women's) in about 16:40. Overall I am dissappointed in the run, wanted to be closer to 16:30. First mile was strong in 5:19, but mile 2 sucked at 5:41, mile 3 at 5:38 and last .1M in 26 for a 5:03 pace. Don't know what happened in mile 2 to slow down so much!

1.3M warmup, and 1.67M cooldown (including a sub 6:00 mile back to house to get family ready to walk back to the parade).

Comments

From wheakory on Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 11:09:36

Still an excellent time (good job). Sometime I think mentally you drift off and lose focus where your pace is at. I know this happens to me. Maybe you were thinking of other things at the time and dropped the pace a little. What's the course like?

From jtshad on Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 11:23:39

Mostly flat with a few very small hills. I think, like you said, I just lost focus. I was running in the front the young guns, at about 1M 1-3 passed me and I tried to pace with them, but the legs just did not have it in them. My lack of shorter speedwork showed.

From Sasha Pachev on Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 12:38:58

If Ken Richardson ran only 16:40, this makes me wonder if the course was a bit long. He ran 17:00 earlier this year on a beast of a course featuring numerous climbs up a 6% grade for significant stretches, and has been very consistent in his racing throughout the year. In fact, he beat me by a 6 seconds in that 5 K, then by 12 seconds a similar 10 K, and then by 11 seconds in the 10 miler. He ran Moab half in 1:13:37, and then a couple of weeks later I got him back for all of those short races in the Ogden Half, and it was all after 10 miles. He was ahead of me at 10 miles again by about 10 seconds or so. So he is very consistent up to 10 miles, after than he starts fading, but he should not be fading in a 5 K even with slightly reduced training. He should have run a normal flat 5 K in around 16:20.

Was the course certified?

From jtshad on Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 14:28:01

No, I don't believe it is certified and I know talking to Jon Allen that it was long last year. My GPS had it right on at 3.1M, so I think it was close. Maybe it was because he didn't feel he had to push too much. Top 5 places according to the official results:

1 Richardson, Ken 28 16:36.84

2 Wilson, Zeke 17 16:51.68

3 Nielsen, Alex 24 16:51.91

4 Shadley, Jeff 38 17:05.69

5 Baxter, Cody 16 17:20.51

From James on Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 17:24:21

Jeff,

Nice job in your 5k. 17 minutes is a good time. Yeah, that Kenneth Richardson is a fast dude. As Sasha said he was beating us the whole winter training series in Ogden. He beat me out for first in our age group in that series. He ran for Weber St. and was an 8:38 steeple chaser.

Glad you hooked up with Jon, don't let him take too many "Jon" breaks, he is famous for that.

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