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Hobble Creek Half

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Location:

Mapleton,UT,USA

Member Since:

Aug 22, 2012

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

1:08:17 Drop 13 Half 2015

2:41:14 St George Marathon 2012

17:28 5k Rex Lee 2015 (but sub 16 inside some of my halves, downhill doesn't count)

Short-Term Running Goals:

2013 Races

2014 Races

2015 Races!

1/3 Snowman Half - 1:23:14 1st

Total Domination

3/7 Rex Lee Cancer 5k - 16:53 7th (5k PR)

Masters Domination

3/21 Running of the Leopards - 16:48 13th

AG Domination

4/11 Timp Shadow - 21:28 5th (1k PR)

Masters Domination

4/18 Salt Lake Half Marathon - 1:20:56 18th

AG Domination

5/2 Provo City Half Marathon - 1:16:12 4th

Masters Domination

5/9 - Dino Half - 1:15:20 1st (CR)

Course Domination

5/30 Timp Trail Half - 1:50 1st

Total Domination

6/6 Art City 5K - 17:20 13th

AG Domination

6/13 Drop 13 - 1:08:17 (PR) (CR)

Course Domination

Long-Term Running Goals:

17:00 5k

1:08 downhill half [done]

34:30 10k

Never get old

Personal:

Married, three kids, have a problem with going out too fast in races but it's too fun to quit

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Race: Hobble Creek Half (12.94 Miles) 01:14:22, Place overall: 12, Place in age division: 1
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
3.6613.000.000.0016.66

I had hoped for top 10, but this field was way too deep. Amazing race. I saw everybody at the start, but only wanted to do 1 or so for warmup so I left them to it and adjusted the Spingblades so there would be no rubbing on the top of the feet. I did find the perfect comfort zone, so that was cool. I was worried about cutting people up at the start so I blew out the beginning as quick as I could, then hung with Zak and Jacob for the first half mile so I could get some more great running pictures of me for Facebook. Thanks for the photo op guys :) Even with the big jumpback in the start position I blew past the mile 1 marker at 4:45, looked like the secret weapon was putting in an appearance.

 But then my thingy didn't dingy until 5:02 so I wasn't sure. Whatever. I was still feeling pretty fresh so I pounded mile 2 decently hard for a 5:27. But now I am 4 seconds behind last year. I lost another 8 seconds over the next four miles, 5:35,5:38,5:40,5:45 and one second on the flat seventh mile, 5:59. It was there that Scott passed me showing Brandon how to use his new superpowers. They invited me along but I was maxed. Scott stopped and tied his shoe and passed me again at mile 9, just so he could be sure to be in front mentally :)

Miles 8-11 were 5:48, 6:04, 6:00, and 6:09 - 1,4,4,and 5 seconds slower than last year. The final miles were at a 6:12 pace, but I made up significant ground from last year's last mile.

This year's GPS is about 0.6% slower to grab miles than last year's - I have noticed this on all my workouts. That was good for about 2 seconds per mile. The heat was somewhat significant, but probably only grabbed 6 or 7 seconds during the last part of the race. The move of the start line was good for at least 20, that was over 100 meters back. Overall I think I actually did a little better or just the same as last year, so not too bad. The secret weapon, however, does not do well on downhills. It is magnificent on uphills and good on flats, especially when you are accelerating strongly (even downhill for that). However, I have essentially no muscle damage from the race because of the shock absorbing it gave me so now I am not sure if I should bring it to the calf crusher (Nebo) or not. Probably not St George, the added weight of the shoes would become a definite drag by mile 16.

I totally blew out masters by like 6.5 minutes, kind of surprising. But I know I have fondled my last HCH masters plaque, unless Scott takes up hang gliding or something.

We had a huge group cooldown on the reservoir loop afterwords, got the awards and bailed. Fun day!

Comments
From fiddy on Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 15:20:18 from 97.117.89.133

What is the secret weapon? Is it Vibrams? Hattoris? Crocs?! Mizuno Wave Universe?! Clip-on bike shoes?

From Dave Taylor on Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 15:45:58 from 174.23.73.161

Adidas Springblades.

From Matt Poulsen on Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 16:08:39 from 98.202.242.213

Nice race, Dave! You are an animal. As we've discussed, I promise you if you tone it back a bit at the start, you will improve your performance significantly :) It was fun to see you up there, though.

From Dave Taylor on Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 16:14:30 from 174.23.73.161

You know, mile 1 is just so awesome and I love to do it fast, but I wonder what would happen if I totally eased back on mile 2 instead and then came back up to normal. That might be something to try (but not at Nebo, that one is just to the wall all the way down)

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