Ogden Marathon (26.2 Miles) 03:13:40, Place overall: 78, Place in age division: 8
Total Distance
26.20
First off, a great race and a little over a 22 minute PR.After the SLC marathon last month I thought I
had it in me to hit my BQ mark of 3:10:59, but over the last 3 weeks I’ve
struggled with my training due to a sore right achilles.Only put in about 20 miles last week and
about 30 the week before, so I was not very hopeful for a good result today.
I felt great for pretty much the whole race.I used the course tool on the blog and was
going to try and hit the following splits based on the tool:
Mile 857:42
Mile 131:35:00
Mile 172:05:03
Mile 242:55:05
Mile 253:02:27
I was right on target (and a little ahead) for each of the
above splits and seeing this just helped me feel more confident as the race
went on.I felt especially good from
about miles 15 to 20, and then I started to struggle, but I was still able to
hold a descent pace.The downhill in the
canyon helped, but I think I overestimated how much it would really help me. I
realized I was going to have a hard time hitting the BQ mark at about mile
24.I was struggling both physically and
mentally.Here are the splits:
1
7:04
2
7:11
14:15
3
7:12
21:28
4
7:08
28:37
5
7:04
35:41
6
7:13
42:54
7
7:12
50:07
8
7:14
57:21
Right on target
9
7:10
1:04:31
10
7:21
1:11:53
11
7:13
1:19:07
12
7:22
1:26:29
13
7:14
1:33:44
Pit Stop. Ahead of pace
14
7:42
1:41:26
15
7:23
1:48:50
16
7:14
1:56:05
17
7:14
2:03:19
Almost 2 min ahead
18
7:00
2:10:20
19
7:07
2:17:27
20
7:00
2:24:28
21
7:28
2:31:56
22
7:45
2:39:42
23
6:56
2:46:38
24
7:45
2:54:24
About 35 sec ahead
25
8:05
3:02:30
About 3 sec behind & fading
26
8:02
3:10:33
Still fading, walked a bit
0.38
3:06
3:13:40
Overall, I couldn’t be happier considering how little I have
trained over the last 3 weeks.I was
able to push through some pain and this race really gives me a lot of
confidence that I’ll be able to drop my time even more as I go throughout the
year.
Comments
From Bec on Sat, May 16, 2009 at 19:35:08 from 67.177.35.60
Really great race Jeff, you are so dang fast. Looks like a PR! You have it in you do BQ, only two minutes. Congratulations on the race. I am happy that your foot held out.
From allie on Sat, May 16, 2009 at 21:15:15 from 63.230.8.72
congrats on your PR today. way to go. you will certainly be able to drop your time this year, just keep running strong. thanks for your comment today. the encouragement from you guys is great and it's helping me through all of this.
go for that BQ!
From josse on Sun, May 17, 2009 at 01:22:04 from 70.193.161.130
Ya!! Great job on the PR, I know you have a BQ and even a sub-3 and beyond in you. I would like to see you pull it out, maybe someday!?! I was really happy to see you did well.
From james on Sun, May 17, 2009 at 02:04:15 from 67.172.226.141
Hmmm 22 minutes in three weeks. Looks like that sore achilles forced you to taper effectively.
From seth on Sun, May 17, 2009 at 11:11:29 from 71.32.224.80
Way to go on the huge PR. Keep it up.
Seth
From RivertonPaul on Sun, May 17, 2009 at 12:15:06 from 75.169.33.91
Not much of a fade. Good job.
From Jon on Sun, May 17, 2009 at 16:03:11 from 75.169.140.132
Congrats on a good race and huge PR.
From Jeff on Mon, May 18, 2009 at 14:26:57 from 158.140.1.28
Thanks for the comments everybody.
Bec / Josse - Wish you guys could have run this marathon. Keep gettin better.
Seth - Congrats on the win. It's incredible how fast you guys run.
Paul - I hope one day to be able to keep up with you in a marathon. Love your blog and read it quite often.
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