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St George Half Marathon

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Location:

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

Short-Term Running Goals:

 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.

Personal:

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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Miles:This week: 3.25 Month: 79.96 Year: 197.09
Kayano 29 Red/Blue Lifetime Miles: 136.15
Nimbus 25 Blue MS Lifetime Miles: 155.88
Nimbus 25 Blue New Lifetime Miles: 50.55
Nimbus 26 Dark Blue Lifetime Miles: 34.59
Race: St George Half Marathon (13.1 Miles) 01:40:34, Place overall: 169, Place in age division: 9
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
1.0013.100.000.000.0014.10

I really had a great race. I will give details later. I had a 3 minute PR from last years race so pretty darn happy!

Details to come later...

Details.

I staretd off a little fast fir the first mile so i backed off a bit and it seemed to work, here are my splits.

1. 7:33 way to fast so I backed off a little.

2. 7:50 with a little uphill much better pace for my fitness level.

3. 7:53 this is a better pace for me, but I wanted around 7:50.

4. 7:45 feeling pretty good and just trying to bale hay so to speak.

5. 7:50 good.

6.  7:56 this is always a tough part of the course for me mentally,  these darn rollers.

7. 7:56 trying to stay with it mentally.

8.  7:25 pushed the hill pretty good here and I thought "Are you crazy" but I was feeling pretty good so I went with it.

9. 7:39 still hanging in there.

10. 7:42 feeling okay and thinking about a possible PR but trying to focus on the mile at hand.

11. 7:45 feeling a little tired but just trying to get to the barn.

12. 7:44 hanging in there.

13. 7:34 during this mile I realized that I might be able to break 1:40 so I picked it up a bit.

.10 7:04 giving it all i got but just missed sub 1:40.

I am really happy with this race and so Happy to get  a 3 minute course  PR, everything felt pretty good, my abdominal was a little bit of a bother but didn't really get any worse so I just went with it. It was a great day too for my Son Ethan who ran his first half marathon today and he ran a 1:33:00, he hasn't ran hardly at all since cross country and he had no long runs at all. I am really proud of him and it would be cool to see what he could do with some serious training under his belt, he finsihed 4th in his age which he was excited about!

Update with Offical time and place; 169th overall and 9th in age with a time of 1:40:34

Great day!

See ya Monday.

Kayano 20 Blue Miles: 14.10
Comments
From Superfly on Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 15:27:01 from 74.211.21.81

So happy to see ya run well and be happy about it! Wish I could have ran into you at the start/finish. Hopefully you get to swing the clubs while in town. The weather has been lovely.

From Clay on Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 18:05:23 from 166.137.209.41

Clyde- Thanks! Running is funny sometimes when you least expect it, it rewards you for no apparent reason:)

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