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Harbison 50k

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Location:

Greenville,SC,

Member Since:

Feb 24, 2007

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

I also maintain a blogspot running blog. Check it out. 

5k- 16:01, 1/2 marathon- 1:11:37, marathon- 2:34:16, 50k- 3:58, 100 mile- 15:19

Former World Record holder in 100 x 5k relay 

Ultra history:

8-100 mile, 1-100k, 9-50 mile, 2-40 mile, 14-50k-ish

12 wins, 5 CR's, plus four 2nd, five 3rd, 4th, 4th, 5th, 5th, 9th, 16th, 20th, 28th, 38th, and 62nd place, with 1 DNF 

Short-Term Running Goals:

Goals 

Enjoy running, stay fit (and maybe lose a few pounds). Play ultimate frisbee.

4 year coach of Langston Middle School- love it

Long-Term Running Goals:

Unretire at some point

Run a sub-6 hr 50 miler

Win a 100 mile ultramarathon

Personal:

I have five cute kids. And I have some rockin short green racing shorts- I wear them mainly because it embarrasses my wife so much. I like ultimate frisbee, trail running, reading, and cheering for the Denver Broncos!   And I have the absolute best wife in the world.  And I used to run for the now-disbanded national Team Pearl Izumi- Ultra!

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Miles:This week: 3.00 Month: 28.00 Year: 537.50
Fastwitch Lifetime Miles: 82.50
Trail M2 Lime/black Lifetime Miles: 299.00
Road N2 Purple 2 Lifetime Miles: 222.50
Road N2 4 Grey Lifetime Miles: 104.50
Race: Harbison 50k (31.2 Miles) 03:58:02, Place overall: 2
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
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Quick report- Harbison 50k today in Columbia, SC.  Nice race, almost all singletrack with some technical portions.  Lots of fun.  Felt good and ran well, considering I'm just starting training again and wasn't focused on this. Shaun Pope won it in 3:47, I got second in 3:58, and 4 total runners under 4 hrs.  The old course record was 4:10, so competitive race today.  I wanted to break 4 hrs (my PR is 4:06 as a split at Umstead 100) and win, but 1 out of 2 ain't bad all things considering.  Final stats were 3:58:02 for 31.2 miles with about 2000 ft climbing.

Update 2 months later- finally did a Race Report compilation, including for this race. It's all on my Greenshortsrunning blog.  

Peak Miles: 32.00
Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Jake K on Sat, Jan 05, 2013 at 15:52:58 from 67.177.11.154

Well done, congrats Jon. Nice way to start off the year.

From Rob Murphy on Sat, Jan 05, 2013 at 15:57:03 from 24.10.249.165

Congratulations. You're running well.

From Bam on Sat, Jan 05, 2013 at 15:58:18 from 89.126.28.24

Great run Jon. That's a huge PR and with some tough climbing on top of those miles it must make it all the sweeter. Nicely done.

From Cody on Sat, Jan 05, 2013 at 18:18:31 from 76.27.36.99

Nice Job Buddy!

PR! and its only Jan 5th. Hope that wasn't your only goal for the year!

From J Cole on Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 09:18:38 from 75.138.122.66

Congrats on an awesome race!

From Bret on Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 13:09:15 from 216.234.133.229

Congrats on a great race!

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