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New Year's Revolution Run

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Location:

SLC,Ut,USA

Member Since:

Jul 31, 2009

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

It was an evening in November 2005 that I'll never forget...I was nearing the end of a long term relationship when I needed to unleash some pent-up anger.  I was driving past a baseball park near my house, when something told me to park my car, and just RUN!!  It wasn't long before I moved on with my life and continued running for new reasons.  I now run because I am truly obsessed!  It is a way of life, and I feel incomplete without my weekly runs.  I have completed 28 half marathons, 78 marathons, 7 ultramarathons, and a few other distance runs.

Pr's:

5k:  18:37 Willow Canyon Fun Run  2010

10k:   39:26 Salt Lake Track Club Winter Series 2012

10 Miles:  1:02:15 Emigration 10 Miler 2014

Half Marathon:  1:22:01 Provo Canyon Half  2011

Marathon:  2:56:52  2017 Utah Valley Marathon

50 Miles:  9:22:03 Antelope Island Buffalo Run 2011

100 Miles: 30:40:28 Wasatch 100 2013

Short-Term Running Goals:

Qualify for Boston

Run 100 mile ultramarathon

Sub 3 hour marathon

Beat my old pr's

Long-Term Running Goals:

A marathon in each state, a few ultramarathons....

Personal:

I have a wonderful wife, Melissa, who does not understand why I would want to punish my body with running marathons, but she is very supportive.  She patiently awaits my arrival at the finish line of most of them.  I slipped on a shirt at the last mile of the Ogden Marathon in 2008, that asked: "Melissa, will you Marry Me?"  It was a wonderful moment!

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Race: New Year's Revolution Run (29.15 Miles) 03:58:43, Place overall: 5, Place in age division: 5

I want to keep up my fitness through the winter, so this was a great albeit, tedious event to test myself.  The thought of running laps of .275 mi. for four hours had me a little nervous.  My goal was to run at slightly a sub 8:00 average pace for the duration, which would have given me 30 total miles.

At least 95% my running is on rolling roadways, which I feel gives my legs a good mixture to keep things interesting.  It also keeps me from utilizing my leg muscles in the same manner whenever I run.  The track does none of this with it being flat and in a constant counterclockwise direction.  I guess the act of dodging other runners in thick packs did mix things up however!

I am somewhat a slave to my Garmin and although I do try to run by feel, I constantly utilize it as a instrument of my performance.  I did not have this luxury today.  I could not gain a GPS signal, and therefore could only use it to time each lap.  I suppose it was easy to calculate each split, so it wasn't really an issue.  With my goal, I just knew to hit each lap around 2:00, or slightly under.

My first 60 or so laps came relatively easy, but I know I started to fade slightly.  The monotony of it all started to take a toll.  Fortunately enough though, I had my wife on the sidelines to encourage me along, and a friend of mine joined me through some of the laps.

I finished 95.5 laps in around 3:28:59, which is roughly the equivalent of a marathon.  This was the slowest marathon time I've had in a while, with an exception being the Mid Mountain Marathon last year.  That's a trail course, so it's a whole different animal!  I had no intentions of this being a fast race, but just an opportunity to put in some mileage.

At the finish, the results showed me having completed 103 laps, not the 106 I had actually run.  Other runners were expressing roughly the same discrepancy of a 3-5 lap deficit.   Who knows where our laps went...  I enjoyed this event, as it was my first full track racing experience, and a last kick of the year.

 

***Update: the results have been corrected on their page, and now reflect the runners true performances...

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