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Striders Half Marathon

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Salem,Ut,USA

Member Since:

May 06, 2006

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

2006 Ogden Marathon 4:19:33.

2006 St. George 4:05:31

2007 Riverwoods 1/2 Marathon 1:34:47

2007 Speedy Spaniard 10K 43:20

2007 Riverwoods 10 mile race 1:12:38

2008 St George Marathon 3:43:37

2012 Spectrum 10K 43:54

2012 St. George Marathon 3:42:17 PR!

2014 St George Half Marathon 1:40:34 C/PR

2019 American Fork Half Run Against Cancer 1:40:31 C/PR

2019 Nebo Half Marathon 1:38:09 2nd in my Age group 55-59.C/PR

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2024:

I'd like to just run more overall.

Be more consistent.

Work on Speed.

Cross Train.

Run More races.

Long-Term Running Goals:

Stay healthy and keep running until I'm really old, and maybe get a Boston Qualify.

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I am Married and my wife Cindie and I have 5 kids. I am an insurance agent and have been for over 30 years.

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Sat, Apr 05, 2008

Race: Striders Half Marathon (13.1 Miles) 01:41:06, Place in age division: 13

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Crosstraining miles	Total Miles
1.00	13.10	0.00	0.00	0.00	14.10

Tough race I will give a full report later this evening...

PM- I can finally sit down and get this race in the books, between Dance competitions and the General Priesthood session I haven't been able to find any time! All I can say is that the first 7 miles I felt really good but then when we turned back towards Eden it was very tough, we had a head wind the last 6 miles and I think it was colder towards the end which was kind of weird... When I made it to the starting line it was great to finally meet Clyde and Andy and Cody and Logan. The are great guys and they run at a pace that I am not familiar with, they are incredible. It was also good to see Tom and Kim they are always so nice and very encouraging they both did very well too, I just feel privileged to know them:-).

Well, back to the report when we got to the start it was surprisingly warm and I was slightly over dressed but by the time I got to mile three I was shedding my jacket, that cost me about 2 minutes! Ehhh!!! I think I started to quick but not as quick as I usually do, but I felt pretty good until mile 8 and then I really started to loose it. I was just working to hard and once I was at mile 10 I was in no mans land and I just tried to hold on. I didn't give up, and I really was pushing as hard as I could but I had noting left and I can't figure out if it was the hilly ups and downs combined with the head wind or I was just spent from not enough tempo work but it does give a pretty good idea where I'm at. My legs are really trashed right now as I'm writing this so I will have to see how they recover and then go from there for next weeks training work.

Here are my splits,

1-7:06(148)

2-7:11(161) Downhill Heart rate out of control.

3-7:11(163)

4-7:30(160) Still feeling pretty good.

5-7:19(162) Better

6-7:40(161) Starting to struggle.

7-7:29(166) Hearts working way to hard, slightly uphill

8-7:48(166) rolling hills and head wind, the wheels are coming off!

9-7:55(165) Really struggling.

10-8:31(162) felt like I was still pushing hard! Och

11-8:14(164) Giving it all I had, Literally!!!

12-8:13(165) Still pushing:-)

13-8:21(166) losing it.

.10 29.81 7:04(166) Done:-)!!!!!

I was about 6 minutes of a PR but this course was a lot tougher than the Riverwoods 1/2 the rolling hills for the last 6 miles were pretty tough, at least for my tired legs they were...

I am happy with this for the simple reason that I never gave up and I pushed until the very end, I have some hill work to do and some tempo work to do in the up coming weeks, to help get me stronger and with that said, goodnight Gracie....

Average pace was 7:43 and my heart rate average was 162, total time was 1:41:06.

Asic 2130 (189)

Comments

From Cody on Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 15:15:23

Clay-

Great to see you and way to run. Probably close to PR effort. Keep up the training and you will be set for Ogden.

From Kim on Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 17:28:06

Clay,

You and Cindie came into town late Friday night and must have headed out shortly after you hit the finish line. I was looking forward to meeting Cindie. Are you guys going to the Pachev's tomorrow evening?

Great race! I did see you for about 3 seconds at the starting line!

From Tom on Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 17:56:14

Great job today Clay, especially with the lousy wind and all. Wish we could have chatted a little longer. See you at the next race! (probably on a Saturday morning every now and then as well).

From Brent on Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 19:21:04

Clay, nice comeback from injury, 100 commando points for the ocmeback kid.

Stay Kool, B of BS Rools out

From Clay on Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 23:02:22

Thanks to everyone for your thoughts, and for checking in on me.

Kim- My wife is mad at me because she wanted to meet you too, we did see you finish though and my wife was really impressed with your effort. Maybe your performance will inspire her to start running:-)

From Lybi on Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 23:15:20

Hey, I didn't know you were racing today! Great job! From what everyone said about the wind, you must've sprouted wings today. So glad to see you back in top form.

From JeffC on Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 01:22:24

Great job Clay! That is a great great when you take into account the conditions and all you have been through over the past several months with the injuries and getting back into training. You should be very satisfied with such a good race so early in the season. Congratulations!

From Jon on Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 10:19:09

Nice job- it's a good race when you can say you gave it your all and are happy at the finish!

From josse on Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 14:24:44

I think you did wonderfully, this is a tough race and tougher with the wind. It was very nice to meet your wife.

From Pat on Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 17:03:13

Clay

Great effort Clay. I hope you have the injury bug behind you and continue to get stronger and faster as the summer comes. Are you going to do the SGM or Logan? See you on the road soon. Nice race.

Patrick

From Superfly on Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 10:34:01

Clay good race under the wind issues we had to deal with. It was good to meet you in person. It kind took me by surprise whe we meet up there because I'd never saw you before in real life. Anyways next time we'll have to chit chat more. Keep up the good work.

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