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Sam Costa Half Marathon

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Location:

Columbus,IN,US

Member Since:

Jun 13, 2011

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

37 Marathons -- PR - 2:48:53 (Fall 2014)

A bunch of Half Marathons -- PR - 1:19:20 (Aug. 2015 - Converted)

10k - 36:30 Unaided // 35:25 (July 2014 - Aided)

5k - 17:28 (Aug. 2015)

1mi. - 4:58 (July 2014 - Track)

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

10k and 5k's to get back into the swing of thing this summer

Sept. 21:  Mill Race Marathon - Under 3:00.  LET's GO!  

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

R2R2R in Grand Canyon  5/18/19 

Marathon < 2:45

Half Marathon < 1:18

Top 10 in Bluegrass 10k

5k < 17

Personal:

400m/800m competitively in track in high school.  Took 15 years off. Started running again in 2010.  Married to my beautiful wife, Tiffany, with 2 little boys, now 4 and 6.  I'm a civil engineer working for the Indiana DOT in Seymour, IN.   I live in a slightly larger town about 20 miles north - Columbus, IN.  Originally from Lexington, KY.

 

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Sat, Mar 24, 2012
Race: Sam Costa Half Marathon (13.1 Miles) 01:23:54, Place overall: 20, Place in age division: 2
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
2.000.0013.100.0015.10

Sam Costa Half Marathon in Carmel, IN.  Perfect day for running this morning - 55 degrees and overcast.  Mu goal for this race was to go out and run between 6:20 and 6:30, hoping to run about a 1:25:30.  Splits looked okay (fairly even), except for 2 blips - I think the slow one was from going up hill and with a water stop slow down.  The 6:10 at mile 9 was to try to shake loose of a one of those runners whose footfalls are very loud and for some reason annoy me :)  It sounded like this guy was intentionally smacking his flat feet on the pavement.

6:19, 6:25, 6:25, 6:17, 6:24, 6:17, 6:25, 6:40, 6:10, 6:25, 6:17, 6:31, 6:27, 0.1 in 0:52

I'm pretty excited about this time - PR by about 2 minutes!  As a celebration I went out and bought some new Ravenna 3's :)

Pretty sore, but I was thinking about running the 5k close to Seymour tomorrow (for freyguy, if u read this :) )

Brooks Ravenna 2 Miles: 15.10
Weight: 0.00
Comments
From FREYGUY on Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 16:01:29 from 184.9.249.72

nice race. I'm running very early again tomorrow. Heidi is working, so I will be spending time with the children. stop by if you are in town.

From Jake K on Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 20:06:24 from 67.177.21.60

haha it sounds like foot smacker guy helped you run a PR! Congrats!

From FREYGUY on Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 09:44:03 from 184.9.249.72

63 minutes next week for the 10 miler should be a breeze for you.

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