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Mapleton 5k

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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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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
26.974.007.006.1644.13
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
3.000.000.000.003.00

I have been feeling a little fatigued in the workouts so with two races this week I am going to cool it a bit. 3 EZ around the original workout route from 7 years ago.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
3.400.000.000.604.00

Traditional pre-race strides, .16 on the flat, .2 at 14 on the treadmill, 45 sec hill blast

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Race: Mapleton 5k (2.98 Miles) 00:17:06, Place overall: 3, Place in age division: 1
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.600.000.002.987.58

A decent performance for me, but not what I was hoping for. Splits were 5:28 (downhill), 6:04 (uphill into wind) and 5:48 (neutral to downhill)so the effort was pretty constant and controlled. I hung out between the top two MMHS track guys for the first quarter, then it seemed likethey were dogging it so I passed them and almost lost contact but they caught me in the upwind portion. I let one of them pass me so i could use him as a wind break but it was the little one dangit (Hayden Cooper) so I didn't get too much advantage. Keeping up put me way past red so I backed off a little and the second one passed me shortly. We stayed pretty close, but steadily widening, and I missed the W by about 15-20 seconds. It's the fastest I ever ran that course by a second or two though.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.800.000.000.007.80

Nice recovery run to Hobble Creek canyon

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.370.000.000.484.85

Pre-race strides again, .16 on flat, 14 MPH on the treadmill, 45 sec up the hill

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Race: Timp Half (13.1 Miles) 01:16:07, Place overall: 3, Place in age division: 1
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
3.804.007.002.1016.90

Showed up at the start and could not believe my eyes - the battle of the titans was about to commence! I had so wanted to see this matchup, although I could never be there in person to witness the results for obvious reasons, but Scott Keate and Iain Hunter were about to duke it out for Scott's entry ranking in masters next March. I'll leave it to Scott to post the whole story, but since Iain was able to put him three feet under after Scott took the lead with a titanic 4:30 mile 5, I'm going to say that he debuts at a very solid number two. Fortunately his wife and the EMTs were able to dig him up in time and all looks to be well as I write this. I'll also say that I will never be bummed by getting repeatedly stomped by Scott, since it is crystal clear that he is willing to go wayyyy further into the pain locker for the W in addition to being a top tier athlete.

Anyway.

I have had an odd pain in my right adductor for the last few days, almost as if I kinked it or something. It goes away after I run for a tenth or so but otherwise it is there like an annoying kinked neck. So I warmed up super slowly, got everything shipshape, and went off super easy to make sure that nothing really got messed up down there. I was still with the lead guys, just not so much. Scott and Iain were way out front looking like they were on a fun run, gradually pulling away. I eased down the big hill and settled nicely into a 5:30 or so pace, 5:20 for mile 1 and 5:45 for mile 2. I didn't want to go too slowly though so I started picking it up off the couch. S&I went out of sight by 1.5, never saw them again. The high school kid I was running with hit the wall at mile 4, but a newly minted masters dude followed me and passed me at mile 7, hanging on nicely for what I thought would be third but ended up being second. Splits for 3-8 were 5:35,5:20,5:15,5:10,5:20, and 5:48.

Then we got to the nasty part of the course. Just at mile 7.5 at the fee shack, the temperature jumped 5 degrees and the humidity jumped 20%. It felt a little like Iowa again, and I knew that there would be no more speed today. Still though I wanted to try to tough it out but I could not get away with my no water trick in these conditions so I had to walk and drink through 3 aid stations to make sure I got enough to not crash. 9-13 splits were all 6:20, even with the walking breaks. Note that splits are (close) estimates because I ended with 12.98 as the course because the Garmin freaks in AF canyon.

We tended to Scott and taped Spencer's heel, then ran some cooldown while waiting for the interminable awards ceremony to finish. It was cool to be on the podium, but I would rather have not done it THAT way...

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
26.974.007.006.1644.13
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