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American Fork Half Marathon

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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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31.780.0014.004.5050.28
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8.010.000.000.008.01

To the gym, Springville Library, Mapleton city park, home.

Anyone is welcome to come an a downhill practice run with me tomorrow, my house 5:30 or driving to mile 1 of Hobble Creek course 5:50, up slow 1, down fast 3, up slow 3, down fast 2, up slow 1. I promise a brutal workout.

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5.160.003.002.0010.16

This one was pretty nasty but informative. I started at the bus dropoff for HCH, run up to the start, then down three fast. The three miles drop 160, 120, and 105 and took me 5:16, 5:20, and 5:16 so a good increasing effort across the three. I then ran back three to the HCH start slow and tried two down fast with the first moderately hard and the second very hard. I got 5:25 and 5:18. So, it looks like the endurance is coming up and even better I didn't go sub 5 on mile 1 of HCH but I am not guaranteeing it wouldn't happen in a race :)

Uphill miles were 8:15-8:30 except last one back to the car at 7:45.

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7.910.000.000.007.91

Looks like yesterday was ideal, my calves feel ripped up in a million tiny places instead of two or three big ones. Nice 8 Krong Easy to make things feel good, looks like I'll rebound perfectly in time for Sat! Walter I am coming for you :P

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6.000.000.000.006.00

1 hour moderate bike, really. Just getting the elasticity back to 100% for Saturday. Going to be a party! Goal is 1:12

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2.700.000.000.403.10

Standard pre-race EZ 5k with three strides, one on the flat road, 14MPH on the TM, and an uphill sprint to cap it

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Race: American Fork Half Marathon (13.1 Miles) 01:13:18, Place overall: 8, Place in age division: 1
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2.000.0011.002.1015.10

This one was a slugfest. I figured with Walter just having done a marathon last week, all I had to do was glom on to him and follow him to his doom, then run the rest of the way on whatever I had left for the overall W. Or maybe let him pull me to a great time within my capability. Or failing that, run a disciplined 4x5:20, followed by 4x5:10, followed by 4x5:30 or until I couldn't hold it any more, followed by a disasterous last mile on the flat to uphill but still enough to do well.

It was not to be.

First off Scott showed up. Yeek. OK, maybe second. Then Lindsay Dunkley. Yikes. OK, third. Then Zack. Crap. Fourth. That's OK, operation domination is still intact for age group. So off we went to the starting line! I got a little tangled up in the starting crowd, looks like everyone wanted to be like Dave today. But Scott and Zack and Walter were all being a lot more like Dave than Dave wanted to be, in fact, after running with them down the initial big hill at a pace that once dropped to 3:53, I figured that discretion was the better part especially as I was using energy at twice the normal pace to stay in the group. Walter was beyond awesome and clearly completely unaffected by last week's race, and the other two were just plain psycho. So I dropped back but stayed in range, also being passed by Matt and Mike and one more person I believe. The Garmin wasn't working but when I passed mile 2 I saw it was at 10:10 so thank goodness I was running pretty slow, 5:35.

Oh crap that's not 5:35 that's 5:05. Math is hard in a race. OK, so now that all three plans are out the window at mile 2 and I am feeling a little tired already from going too fast now what do I do. I go to plan Z, just go to the firewall until you die and hope it's close to the finish line. I am focusing on Hobbler to be the disciplined half anyway, so this will be a good experiment to compare to. My only hope of passing any of these guys was if they accidentally brought laundry soap instead of gu, and the first thing I think of when I see a quivering pile of suds on the side of the road is not that I've passed a leader, so it probably wouldn't help all that much mentally anyway.

At mile 4 I had to stop and tie my shoe. I was shocked that Lindsay hadn't passed me yet. My cold hands moved like frozen noodles and it took me 30 seconds to do the deed. Then I got to chase Lindsay until she drifted out of sight. Now a bunch of 5:10 miles to the mouth of the canyon, just like I planned, ha ha, but Steve Andersen blew by me at+20sec or better near mile 7. Good grief, it's not bad enough to be chicked by somebody who belongs at the OTQ now I have to be beaten by a Steve too :)

But he settled in 100 yards in front and I kept gaining. Unfortunately, I hit the little wall at mile 8.5 and had to start walking the uphills. But it was only for a few seconds and he was getting killed on the hills too, especially the one at mile 10. But whenever I started back up again I would still be closing the gap, down to 20 yards at one point. He was like my own personal torture master. He had no mercy. Then the wheels totally fell off and I stopped caring. But I had to finish better than my Hobble Creek Half - I had banked 5:20 of sub-6 time so far and just a little more would put me in the 1:12s which was my goal for the day. Then Skip showed up with a magnificent 5:40 pace and dragged me .3 miles further down the road. I tried to pick it up but the aerobic just wasn't there. Maybe these high mile weeks aren't so good.

Mile 13 was beyond brutal, felt like mile 25 of St George. I really paid for the beginning miles at that point. I stumbled up the street, twisted around the turns, and cruised up the chute which just went on and on and good grief Who's the Comedian? I mean really? Oh, there's the arch. One last burst of speed and I was there. Ran some cooldown with the early arrivals, got my prize and bailed. Now we get to see what a disciplined half will do! Plus I will tie my shoes better. Here's the splits, as good as possible with the G troubles:

4:56,5:14,5:32,5:36 (shoelace)

5:11,5:09,5:20,5:32

6:11 (walk a bit),6:02,6:26 (walk more),5:51

5:47, 5:25 pace for last bit

Hey, mile 13 was brutal because I actually ran faster :) OK, that's better.

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