| Location: Taylorsville,UT, Member Since: Nov 20, 2007 Gender: Male Goal Type: Age Division Winner Running Accomplishments: Eden 10-miler 65:47
Half Marathon 1:26:17
5K 18:01
I rank somewhere between the competitive recreational runner and the competitive highschool runner. Here's the scale:
10 - World record holder; 9 - Olympic Athlete; 8 - National elite; 7 - Professional runner; 6 - College All-american; 5 - College runner; 4 - Local elite; 3 - Competitive runner; 2 - Recreational runner; 1 - Jogger
It's a tough scale. Short-Term Running Goals:
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Run for fun and health, be fit in my 40s
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Run a strong half marathon, under 1:25, good, under 1:20, great.
Long-Term Running Goals:
- Be a disciplined runner, to be competitive in my age category, and feel strong while racing.
- Somehow actually put together a full year of running: increased discipline and decreased distraction and injuries
- Be a 17/36 guy for 5K/10K (not realistic now)
- Be a competitive Master's runner
Personal: Spoken for, Christian, piano player, soli deo gloria, at least that's the ideal. Living for Triune God, beautiful wife, cute sons, self; hopefully in that order but Adam's nature and my own choices, not to mention worldly temptations like to play with the ideal.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 19.00 | 0.00 | 9.20 | 2.00 | 30.20 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 | 2.00 | 12.00 |
| Sat-ran to park, did speedwork on canal out and back, good to get to mile speed, then some disc golf, then one more speed rep, feel like I can cruise and push it, wasn't really winded, looking forward to 10K, then ran home for Grandma's 93rd B-day 3m easy, 2 m VO2
Sun- before Superbowl, out and about NE 45 min. 4m, mon-rest
Tues-fartlek, getting the emo out, NE hood, 3-4 higher cruises, 3m, then good ball, still rushed a few layups but also scored several gamewinners, a couple spin moves to middle, good D, lots of guys, held good post-up player scoreless one game, then next he scored on me and we switched but the tall, smooth kid was lax and let him score more
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.50 |
| Easy running and walking with my old high school buddy Brandon. 2 1/2 times perimeter of Sugarhouse.
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SLC Track Club 10K (6.214 Miles) 00:42:24, Place overall: 30, Place in age division: 6 | | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 6.20 | 0.00 | 13.70 |
| Thu-Decent long run for an hour, used my old gray racing flats, 3200 W to 6200 S across Bangtr & thru 'hoods, out to 4800 W and back, felt the joy, consistent pace, cold face, cooled the fire
Fri-rest but worked 2 jobs for 2 schools and went to Presbytery, story in itself
Sat- Had a plan to take it easy for 2 miles and then push it, especially with the wind on the way back. Was surprised to hear 6:48 for 1st mile, knew I was holding back too much but wanted to keep with my race plan so then ran 6:49, opened up after 2 and ran 6:24, figure I was about 20:40 at halfway (clock went by 10 second intervals). I had been running with a guy and mentioned that I just wanted to find someone to trade air with on the way back. Whereupon he, knowing my race plan, hit the turnaround and promptly seemed to put 50 yards on me in about a minute! What? Yeah, what.
Luckily, my friendly nemesis Richard came up and and gave me someone to run with, we played cat and mouse a little but he took the lead and I tried to hang on. I thought that I'd feel him breaking wind but if I was 5 feet from him it felt like I might as well have been 50 feet. We did manage to catch another guy who looked to be 200 feet ahead after mile 4. I stayed w/i 50 feet of Richard and I could see another guy we could catch, after further scrutiny I realized it was my boy BK. I knew I was working hard cuz I did catch him finally but man 100 yards catching someone takes a mile to do! Richard had passed BK and then I caught him w/ probably 4/10ths to go, I said, "It's always hard." He said, "Yup," and promptly strided it out and I couldn't catch him again. I picked it up and started to kick it in w/ .2 left, noticed I was audibly grunting with every breath and tried to just breathe, then realized I didn't care what people thought, even myself, and grunted on home.
Overall I was happy that I averaged just under 7 minutes per mile on the way back and was 21:44 for the 2nd half. Being only a minute slower is comparable to the top guys, including my bro Nate, I just really wonder if I wasn't too slow for the first 2 miles. They were pretty easy, with the way the wind was on the return there was no getting around the efforting that needed to be done so I don't know if I could have efforted much more.
So now it's the rubber match, BK and Richard I beat in the 5, they took me in the 10, and the 15 it's on like Donkey Kong!
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 19.00 | 0.00 | 9.20 | 2.00 | 30.20 |
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