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Tommy Vaughn's Half Marathon and MORE

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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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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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Sat, May 19, 2012

Race: Tommy Vaughn's Half Marathon and MORE (13.95 Miles) 01:22:30, Place overall: 1, Place in age division: 1

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
4.00	13.95	0.00	0.00	17.95

1st place overall in this 14 mile long half marathon in 1:22:30ish on my GPS. Very windy day out on the country roads and farmland, especially coming back the last 4 miles or so into a growing headwind (20-25mph on the way back!). Held a good clip through 10 miles (59 minutes or a little less), but then the wind and a bit of hills coming back sucked. Hit the actual half point at around 1:17:20ish.

Around mile 10 when the winds were strong in my face and I was starting to get mad at the realization of the long course, I lost focus and let my pace slip above 6:00 pace, disappointed in the lack of mental and physical toughness through 10-13 miles. I need to stay focused and find my strong better than that for UVM and the tough competition I will face there.

Second place was about 8 minutes back, then Kory came in a strong third place.

Told the RD that distance was off, he got upset at us and yelled that we didn't know what we were talking about! Looking back at the course map afterwards more closely, you can see on the map where the course is going to be long...mile 7 is right on, but you still have nearly a mile before you make the turn and hit mile 20 of the marathon course (ran on the same course for lots of the, including the beginning and end). So, it is right there in front of them...and us if we had looked close enough! Nice of the RD to treat the runners so kindly when pointing out an error.

Besides this issue and his bit of arrogance, the race was really well organized.

Ran a 1 mile warmup and a 3 mile cooldown with Kory and Chad (2nd place finisher from Park City). Overall a nice day for a run except for the wind. A bit disappointed with the time as I wanted to be more around 1:15 for the half but the wind just killed that idea...oh well.

Congrats to all the IF runners here in Blackfoot (Lynette 2nd place at the HM, Marlin 3:19, John T. 3:03 for first) and at Ogden (Gray...wow!, Craig, Cache, Gary, Alisa). Another great day for running!

Saucony Fastwitch 5 Miles: 17.95

Comments

From Jake K on Sat, May 19, 2012 at 14:57:16 from 67.182.215.126

Nothing like a bonus mile tacked on to the end of a half marathon! :-) haha

Nice race Jeff

From Alana on Sat, May 19, 2012 at 15:06:27 from 69.20.189.206

Awesome Jeff! Nice half and some! I can't wait to see what you do in Utah Valley!

From crhudman on Sat, May 19, 2012 at 16:40:55 from 69.20.180.92

Good job. Thanks for the help.

From Rob Murphy on Sat, May 19, 2012 at 16:58:21 from 24.10.249.165

Nice job Jeff. Sorry about the screwed up course.

From Jon on Sat, May 19, 2012 at 17:03:32 from 74.177.127.167

So can we call you an ultra half-marathoner?

From Neil on Sat, May 19, 2012 at 17:18:35 from 97.121.40.61

Another race, another win. It must get old right? JK.

LOL @ the RD. I get a kick out of people who choose to argue against objective facts.

From Tom on Sat, May 19, 2012 at 18:22:18 from 67.199.179.59

Congrats on another win Jeff! Can't believe the race dir acted that way when he was so far off on the distance. Nearly a mile long are you kidding me? That would have really really depressed me to have to add that much distance to the end of a hard run 1/2.

From scottkeate on Sat, May 19, 2012 at 18:42:22 from 71.199.4.146

Nice work! I can only imagine what it would have been like to see 13.1 come and go, and go, and go...

Congratulations on the win!

From Teena Marie on Sat, May 19, 2012 at 21:39:57 from 174.255.132.175

Nice .85 victory lap! I am sure that is just what you wanted! You amaze me! Congrats!

From Superfly on Sun, May 20, 2012 at 18:34:10 from 74.211.21.81

Cool race and good job! Someone buy the race director a gps or measuring wheel...

From RileyCook on Mon, May 21, 2012 at 09:02:38 from 132.3.57.68

Nice race Jeff. That's a bit annoying that the course was long by that large of an amount, but sounds like you handled it well.

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