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Location:

Riverton,UT,

Member Since:

Jun 19, 2006

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Short-Term Running Goals:

 2022 Running Goals:

Stay fit and healthy.  Run a decent Boston and St. George marathon.

 

 

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

Keep fit and stay semi-competitive as long as I can.

 

Personal:

I have a wonderful wife and son and we live in Riverton/Herriman Utah. I am a high school teacher, and head coach for cross country and track at Mountain Ridge High. 

 

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Saucony Type A Lifetime Miles: 66.60
Saucony Kinvara 8 Green Lifetime Miles: 131.90
Hoka Speedgoat 3 Lifetime Miles: 408.85
Nike Zoom Fly (Black) Lifetime Miles: 236.85
Saucony Endorphin Pro Lifetime Miles: 59.50
Saucony Endorphin Shift Lifetime Miles: 231.50
Saucony Triumph 18 Gray Lifetime Miles: 99.20
Nike ZoomX Invincible FK 2 Lifetime Miles: 107.50
Altra Rivera 2 Black Lifetime Miles: 25.62
Nike Zoom Alphafly Lifetime Miles: 35.10
Race: Holiday Heroes (3.1 Miles) 00:17:49, Place overall: 1, Place in age division: 1
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
6.000.003.100.000.009.10

I heard about this race at the last minute.  It was put on by Riverton City and the SLC County Sheriffs Department.  It had snowed during the night and this morning and I did not felt like running at all today, but I needed to at least salvage something after missing yesterday.   I got down to the race at the last minute and registered in time to get about a .5 mile warm-up in, I really needed a 2 mile warm-up!  I was about 34 degrees at the start, so I wore shorts a long-sleeve shirt and gloves.

I knew I was going to win because I didn't see anyone I knew at the start that could push me.  Michael Metcalf was there, but non of my faster guys.  The race started at a park on the Jordan River Parkway at 12400 S. and 1000 W.. The course was a loop course that started heading North on the Parkway.  After a mile it cut up in the hilly neighborhood by Hawkins hill.  The second mile was rough with the steep hills and headwind.  The start of the third mile was slow too because of  the hills and a zig zag through a park, but the end of the race was down Tithing Hill and around the park for the last .1.  I was all alone the whole race and ended up winning by about 4 minutes, which made me look like some kind of Paul Paetersen character or something.:)  My splits were:

5:27 all flat

6:11 mostly all uphill into the wind

5:41 Steep up and steep down

:30 last .1

17:50 for a total time.  I'll take it for my lack of preparation, the toughness of the course, and my first 5k in over a year.  The solo thing didn't help my cause either.

After I cooled down with Metcalf for 2 miles and then finished a cool-down on the parkway. 5.5 miles total in 42:45 (7:47 ave.)

Saucony Omni 5 Miles: 5.50Saucony Fastwitch 2 Miles: 3.50
Comments
From redrooster on Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 15:37:10 from 71.219.150.58

good job James! hey- and I won me a turkey today. did you see Mark Ostler at this race (if you know him)?

From James on Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 15:40:36 from 174.23.43.206

I don't know if I have ever met your friend before. I might recognize him, I have met his wife once or twice, and of course I taught his daughter.

From Paul on Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 15:47:59 from 174.23.93.107

Good job. I hope you won some sort of piece of avian meat for your efforts.

From James on Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 15:51:15 from 174.23.43.206

No turkey, just Christmas stuff. I would have rather had a bird though.

From Kelli on Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 16:07:23 from 71.219.97.167

NICE JOB!!!!

From jtshad on Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 15:06:17 from 204.134.132.225

Congrats on the well run race.

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