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Roots Rock Fishline 25k

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Feb 10, 2007

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Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

I was an 800/1500 runner in high school and college, with PRs of 1:55 and 4:08. I've run as fast as 16:15 for 5k and 1:20 for a half, but my bests in recent years are 17:07 5k (Dec. '11), 37:40 10k (Jan. '12), 1:23:49 half (Sept. '08), 2:53:12 marathon (September '10), and 4:45:06 50k (March '10).

Short-Term Running Goals:

Late 2015/2016 races: 

— Seattle Soltice 10k (Dec. 19)

— Nookachamps half marathon (Jan. 16)

— Toyko Marathon (Feb. 28) 

Personal:

I'm an editor at a newspaper in Bremerton, Washington and head coach of the Bremerton Jaguars youth track and field team.

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Total Distance
23.00
Race: Roots Rock Fishline 25k (15.5 Miles) 01:59:54, Place overall: 2, Place in age division: 2
Total Distance
15.50

 

 Wonderful early season trail run on the OPG land in North Kitsap. Saturday's rain ended and we saw some sunshine, mild weather and trails that were muddy but not too muddy. The fun type.

Started off with Mike, we let three or four guys race out and settled into a nice pace leading a group of four or five. That dwindled to a group of three (me, Mike and this guy Miles) who stuck together until the home stretch. We weren't much for conversation, but it was fun to catch up with Miles a bit and have the pack for motivation. Kept a really good, even pace, competative but conservative enough that we had energy for the whole way (and Miles, who's training for Hardrock, did a second loop for 50k). The singletrack there is really windy and hard to get any pace on, but we ran the downhills pretty briskly. We also ran really well on the hills, I was proud of the momentum and consistent pace on all the uphill stretches. Good sign for Chuckanut.

We caught two younger guys and one stuck with us, then did this really strange surge at the one-hour mark, sprinting ahead. We reeled him back in within eight minutes, and taught him a lesson about surging during trail races (this was his first). We dropped him and beat him by 13 minutes.

Within 10 minutes of the finish our pack spotted second place. Didn't totally chase, but we had a solid pace and slowly reeled him in. He didn't see us until a water crossing and then knew we had him. Turned a corner with 1/4 or so on a road and I snuck by him by taking a sharp corner and burned it in. Mike tried to hang with me but I outkicked him by 20 seconds or so. Really strong finish, and that snuck me under 2 hours for the race, which was my goal. Two years ago, on a slightly different course in very different weather, I ran 2:04.

Overall a really fun morning of running. Maybe the best course markers I've ever seen (probably because they were all scrambled last year.) Good crowd as usual, we hung out for 45 minutes cheering others and talking to folks. I felt beat, but not destroyed in the legs, and got a nice boost of confidence from this one.

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Total Distance
3.00

Brisk morning run around the City Walk in Orlando (which I learned at the end of the run is prohibited by rule; no wonder all the dawn laborers were yelling at me). On a work trip this week, running has not been what was planned and turned out to be a down week. 22:00

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Total Distance
4.50

Another morning run in Orlando before meetings got started, had a little more time and took the long loop around the block surrounding Universal Studios. Warm and humid morning, even with cloud cover, which felt nice. Not as fast as Thursday. 31:53

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Total Distance
23.00
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