Provo River 1/2 (13.1 Miles) 01:24:18, Place overall: 20, Place in age division: 2
Total Distance
13.10
Goals for the race:
1:25 and run my own race (in control). Hope and pray the achilles and feet come out of the race feeling ok.
It wouldn’t be the Provo River ½ if there wasn’t mass chaos
and confusion at the start.That being
said, I always have really liked this race.
Secretly, I was hoping I would be able to come in ahead of
the first lady.I believe I did so, but
I had to hold her off at the end.I had
planned on trying to push it down South Fork pretty hard, and then try and hold
6:30 pace the rest of the way.I wasn’t
sure if the uphill section near Bridal Veil was going to be in play this year,
but it was and I was fine with that.
Met Tom Lee and talked with him for a second in the first
few miles (if you’re reading this – nice job and I wish you were still
blogging).I ended up running a good
portion of the race with Andy (from the blog).I caught up to him around mile 5 and hung with him until about the 10
mile marker.It really helps to run with
people in a race.There were certain
sections where he carried me quite simply because I didn’t want to fall
back.Overall I felt pretty good.Recently I’ve discovered that during these
races I go in and out feeling bad.It is
just a matter of working through the bad times and then eventually I start to
feel better.Around mile 10, sunglasses
guy caught up to Andy and I and started passing.I started fading a bit and ended up running
alone the rest of the way.At the mile
11 water break I stopped for a bit, and really had to will myself to the finish
for the last 2 miles.I was surprised my
splits were as good as they were for the last two.
Overall, I was really happy with how consistent my splits
were and this is certainly a good building block for the upcoming
marathons.I’m hoping I recover well
from this and no pain/injuries linger.Congrats to the other bloggers who ran so well.I can’t believe how fast some of these people
are.
Here are the splits:
1-6:13
2-6:11
3-6:18
4-6:05
5-6:23
6-6:22
7-6:39Uphill
8-6:42Uphill
9-6:16
10-6:24
11-6:23
12-6:48holding on
13-6:45holding on
.1-0:39
Comments
From josse on Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 21:51:09 from 70.193.124.118
Good luck, keep a level head and you will do fine:)
From Bec on Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 13:51:09 from 67.177.35.60
You did so AWESOME Jeff! Whatever you are doing is working, keep it up! Can't wait to see you PR at SGM!
From Andy on Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 13:52:08 from 198.60.114.178
Great job today. I'm glad you were there. It definitely kept me going during some of the tougher miles.
From Burt on Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 14:12:06 from 98.167.151.26
Great job Jeff.
From josse on Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 15:45:26 from 70.192.73.56
See I told you so;) You did great!! So happy for you, are you running hobble in a couple of weeks?
From Ericka on Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 17:54:54 from 71.36.76.97
It's no secret, you did AWESOME today!!
From Jeff L on Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 11:13:40 from 97.117.27.141
Josse-Yeah, I'm running Hobble Creek. You are to, right? What kind of time you shooting for?
From josse on Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 18:34:21 from 70.193.28.200
Before yesterdays run I would have thought I would be lucky to get a 1:30 but I think I can go under that. I am sure you will be minutes ahead of me.
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