| 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 | | 8.50 | 4.00 | 0.00 | 3.10 | 15.60 |
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| New Balance 680 V2 Miles: 6.00 | Adidas Miles: 3.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.00 | 4.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 11.00 |
| Mon - biked to DG, played softball practice w/ 2 guys, good to throw and hit, 2m
Tue - still some soreness from running along half, ball w/ good guard, LWW?, when we play within ourselves and smart we have it, had some hustle, made game-winner 3 from left-side below backboard, DG?, 1.5m
Wed - ran to DG, met 2 guys who've moved here, gave some tips to Nick, other guy threw beyond basket 12, biked back, was too tired to ball, 4m
Thu - windy DG, ball w Steve at new 70th/62nd ward, was ready to not play hard, Cody showed up w/ Kevin and 2 bros, Kev played for W.Jordan, 1st old guys ag. young guys, but didn't have the speed to keep up, Kev had quick drives, when we matched teams up I played w Cody and shooter bro who could guard his brother well, Steve was missing but Kev had unstoppable 3s, I kept our team in it w/ shootouts, but we couldn't do it, lost 2 sets, 2m + 1.5
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| New Balance 680 V2 Miles: 6.00 | Adidas Miles: 3.00 |
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Pummel Pornography 5K (3.107 Miles) 00:20:16, Place overall: 2, Place in age division: 1 | | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 1.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.10 | 4.60 |
| Slow w/u, saw some hs boys I thought would take it, also a flourescent green shirt (Daniel) who ran on toes who looked fast. Feeling like needed miles just to wake up body.
At start along narrow asphalt trail was a young runner in blue shorts who quickly put the race away. Started uphill and quickly saw that I could keep up with the gang, latched on passing going from 10th to 5th. Had headwind so I was tagging behind boys, Daniel wouldn't let me draft so drafted off other guy, 1st place was killing it, he's from ME and ran 17:30, no challengers. Was feeling good, 1st mile in 6:29, surprised w/ hill was so fast, didn't feel like I was stretching it but quickly started to in 2nd mile, Daniel went w/ me but not for long. Was on long boxed stretch along road, felt like I was pushing it, felt heavy but pushed through, at top left corner of course wasn't ready to turn left, was second-guessing course, but we ran around and turned back into the asphalt trail. At 2 miles was 13:20?, not sure, Daniel was closer than I thought 10 seconds back. Enjoyed the downhill into the park, then thru tunnel to mile 3, 19:24, finish at 20:16. Good cheering at end, had a cruise sprint, bagels and bananas.
Met hs guy who was 3rd, faded to 7th, from Recovery ranch in Mapleton, finish was away from the park, had raffle and award for first. Definitely have some soreness in legs, gave a good effort. If I actually get some training miles in should run 2 minutes faster? ;-)
Race was for a great cause too. Talked to some people afterwards, there's something to having a support group and "Fighting like Dragons." We are always battling the good vs. the best and the good twisted into bad.
We are imago dei marred by sin, Christ died to crush the serpent and to take away sin, but until he is finally defeated we have the struggle.
Race results
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.50 | 4.00 | 0.00 | 3.10 | 15.60 |
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| New Balance 680 V2 Miles: 6.00 | Adidas Miles: 3.00 |
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