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St. George Marathon

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Location:

Salt Lake City,UT,USA

Member Since:

Sep 25, 2007

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Marathon Finish

Running Accomplishments:

All running accomplishments are Post Teenage Years:

17:06 5K--Murray 2014

16:58 5K (aided)--Running of the Leopards 2010

34:41--10K Deseret News 2018 (aided)

1:16--(aided) Hobble Creek Half 2009

2:43--St. George Marathon 2012

Short-Term Running Goals:

Sub 2:50 Ogden Marathon

Sub 17:00 at Draper 5K

Long-Term Running Goals:

Sub 2:40 Marathon

 

Personal:

Married to Elizabeth (she got me running in 2003). We have three boys, Lucas (12) , Sam (8) and Ollie (5).

Many years ago, I read that the AVERAGE male is capable of a 2:40 marathon.  I decided to test that theory.  I began running in 2003 with Top of Utah as my first marathon (4:24).  I need 3 more minutes.

"Life is short...running makes it seem longer."--Baron Hansen

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Tanner Park loop before heading to Las Vegas for work

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Early morning run on the most unhealthy road in the world--Las Vegas strip!

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Morning run on the Las Vegas strip

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Another Vegas strip morning run

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Race: St. George Marathon (26.22 Miles) 02:43:16, Place overall: 35, Place in age division: 12
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26.50

New PR today at St. George Marathon.  I was able to run it 8 minutes faster than Deseret News in late July.  The conditions were some of the best they have had in recent years, although it was still warmer than I prefer.  Several PR by running friends also some tough crashes.

After a week working in Vegas and someone stealing my racing Hokas out of my car, I was glad to get back into Utah on Thursday night.  I worked from the hotel on Friday and continued my beet juice “loading” experiment.  Met the group Friday evening at a Lloyd and Jan Hanson’s house for pasta and made some race plans.  I had an A+ goal of 2:45 with good conditions and a more realistic goal of sub 2:50; however, things went better than planned.

Got off the bus at the start and it was warm, but a good 5-10 mph trail wind was blowing.  This was a huge help the first ½ of the race before it dissipated.  I ran the first few miles with my training partner, Craig (ran 2:40 PR), before he left me at the base of Veyo while I was talking with Stephen Anderson.  Since it’s such a rare event for me to run with Stephen, I really enjoyed it.  Oddly, the was his first St. George.  We ran together several miles before I decided to make a push up to the 2nd place girl, Annie.  We ran most of Deseret News together.  Ran with Annie briefly before deciding to try and catch Amber Green, the overall female winner.   

I came through the ½ at about 1:22-it was a little faster than I wanted but felt very comfortable.  At this point Amber picked up the pace.  For the rest of the race I attempted to reel her in, but she ran really strong with a ton of crowd support-a lot of solo running for me from here on out.

I was able to negative split the course with a 1:21 on the back side.  My pace stayed fairly strong with my last mile being my slowest (6:34)-other than Veyo.  I never had an urge to walk and finished with a big smile.  I also had to have nice kick at the end to hold off James Blackham.  He and I are always pretty close with him usually getting the better of me in the marathons. It was nice to be passing people the last 5K for a change.

My week of nitrate loading on beet juice really made a difference.  The lab testing shows a 3-5% increase in performance.  I’m skeptical if 6 days of loading is necessary simply due to the science behind it, but I believe 10-20 ounces 15 minutes before a run would provide the necessary nitrate for your system.  The conditions at St. George were good, but my effort was not as high as DesNews just 2 months ago.  Breathing was easy and muscles felt relaxed throughout the race.  I’m definitely a believer in the stuff and will continue to use it until it gets banned-lol!

Lots of bloggers at race and nice to talk to everyone.  Funny thing: 35th overall yet 12th in my age group--where did all these old fast people come from!

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