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FSRC Resolution Run Series 10k

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Location:

Lakewood,WA,

Member Since:

Dec 19, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

  • 5k
    Resolution Run 5k:
    1/1/09 20:46 (6:42)
    1/1/10 19:33 (6:18)
    1/1/11 19:23 (6:15)
    1/1/12 19:33 (6:18)
    FSRC Turkey Trot:
    11/20/11 18:50 (6:04)
  • 10k
    Resolution Run 10k:
    1/24/09 42:40 (6:53)
    1/23/10 40:48 (6:35)
    1/22/11 39:40 (6:24)
  • 15k
    Resolution Run 15k:
    2/21/09 1:05:59 (7:06)
    2/20/10 1:04:15 (6:55)
    2/26/11 1:03:46 (6:51)
    2/25/12 1:02:26 (6:42)
  • 20k
    Resolution Run 20k:
    3/21/09 1:27:16 (7:01)
    3/20/10 1:26:46 (6:59)
    3/26/11 1:24:37 (6:49)
    3/24/12 1:25:27 (6:52)
  • 1/2 Marathon
    Grand Columbian 1/2 Iron Relay
    2007 1:58:29 (8:59)
    2010 1:39:07 (7:34)
  • Marathon
    2005 Portland: 3:52:21 (8:52)
    2007 Tacoma: 3:47:17 (8:40)
    2010 Eugene: 3:16:21 (7:30)
    2011 Boston: 3:25:28 (7:51)
    2011 Tunnel: 3:06:30 (7:07)
    2012 Boston: 3:53:56 (8:56)
    2012 Big Sur: 3:23:06 (7:45)
    2013 Tacoma: 3:41:25 (8:27)
    2013 Tunnel Lite: 3:07:33 (7:09)
    2014 Boston: 3:40:35 (8:20)
  • Ultra Marathon
    2013 Defiance 50k: 4:49:12 (9:18)
    2013 Steilacoom 50k: 4:44:06 (9:09)
    2014 R2R 51.9mi: 9:51:40 (11:24)

Short-Term Running Goals:

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Upcoming races: Just pacing and volunteering this year. PRs coming in 2016?

St Paddy's Day 1/2 1:50 Pacer 3/12/16

Whidbey Island 1/2 1:45 Pacer 4/?/16

Tacoma City Marathon 3:55 Pacer 5/1/16

 

Personal:

No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.
Heb 12:11

 

Favorite Quotes:

"Go out and preach the Gospel, and if you have to, use words."  - St. Francis of Assisi

"Life is short; running makes it seem longer." - Baron Hansen

"If you have to ask, you wouldn't understand." HD?

"Rule #1. Cardio - Zombies lead a very active lifestyle, so should you." - Columbus (Zombieland)

"A one that is not cold is scarcely a one at all." - Strongbad

"Running without hills is like motorcycling without corners" -me

 

Favorite Blog Posts:

Puke and pass

My epic Beatles for Burt blogpost

Vodka at an aid station?

 

Hot tips for winter running:

Screwshoes
Poor man's cleats. this works a LOT better than you would think! Very quick and easy.

LittleHotties
Are you cheap like me? Put those little hotties in a ziplock bag and use them again tomorrow!

Kickstart your dead Garmin
Hold down the reset/lap button and the mode button together to get your 205/305/310xt to restart if it won't turn on or if it freezes up.

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Shopping Cart Lifetime Miles: 9.60
Total Distance
32.91
Asics 2130blk Miles: 24.75
Total Distance
2.50

2:00pm

2.5 easy miles with my brother-in-law.

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Total Distance
8.08

11:30am

Tough run today. It was windy, I felt kind of sick and I just wanted to quit pretty much the whole time. I gutted it out and feel good about it now. Tomorrow will be better...

Distance    Split pace
1.00    7:02
2.00    7:16
3.00    7:06
4.00    7:07
5.00    7:21
6.00    7:27
7.00    7:21
8.00    7:07
8.08    6:32
 

Asics 2130blk Miles: 8.08
Comments(2)
Total Distance
8.07

Great run this morning! My pace was good and my HR was down. The power was out so I couldn't download my splits, but avg pace was 7:23. I may do another 8 tomorrow and just rest Fri. before the 10k. I'm leaving work early today to sign papers for our new condo, finally, woohoo! We put an offer on this place back in Sept. and it's finally coming to a close!

Update: The internet connection is up so I have splits, but I am still not a homeowner :(  The mortgage company goofed up again and listed the credits we had coming as charges on the HUD so we could not sign and pay our final closing costs since we didn't have a solid $ amount. This has got to be the longest home deal ever... maybe not ever, but 4 1/2 months is too long!

Distance    Split pace
1.00    7:26
2.00    7:36
3.00    7:15
4.00    7:17
5.00    7:21
6.00    7:42
7.00    7:16
8.00    7:00
8.07    7:26

Asics 2130blk Miles: 8.07
Comments(1)
Total Distance
8.06

5:00am

Felt good today, looking forward to 10k on Sat.

Distance    Split pace
1.00    7:21
2.00    7:39
3.00    7:19
4.00    7:21
5.00    7:21
6.00    7:46
7.00    7:17
8.00    7:09
8.06    7:02

Asics 2130blk Miles: 8.60
Comments(5)
Race: FSRC Resolution Run Series 10k (6.2 Miles) 00:40:48, Place overall: 9, Place in age division: 1
Total Distance
6.20

9:00am

The weather was perfect again for today's race; a little overcast, but dry and 51° with only a slight breeze. I did a warm-up lap around the track at about an 8:00 min pace right before the start. That is the first time I've ever done that, not sure if it helped my time or not, but I was feeling anxious and a little stiff and it seemed to help with that anyway.

The first mile went by pretty easy and when I looked at my split I could see why (I was shooting for 6:29's). Miles two and three had some rolling hills with a net elevation gain of about 125'. I didn't increase my effort quite enough to compensate for the hills and stayed in the 6:40's. My half-way point split was 21:02. Miles 4 and 5 were the reverse with a net elevation loss so I made up some time, but still wasn't averaging my goal pace. Mile 6 was mostly flat and I was almost able to maintain my downhill pace, but spent most of the mile wondering how I was going to muster up a kick at the end. I left everything on the track for that last .2 trying to catch a guy about 20-30 yards ahead of me... fortunately he wasn't in my age group and I still took first :) I had a nice negative split, crushed my previous PR, and was only a few seconds off my goal pace overall.

Distance    Split pace
1.00    6:46
2.00    6:41
3.00    6:46
4.00    6:21
5.00    6:19
6.00    6:24
6.28    5:35

My wife, my daughter Karina and her mother-in-law also raced today and it is Karina's 21st birthday so I went back to run them in and jumped out from behind a bush to hose her down with a bottle of champagne before they got on the school grounds. I am SO proud of her! We made this deal with our kids that if they did not drink before their 21st we would give them a thousand dollars on their bday and she did it! After the race we presented her with a wooden chest overflowing with 1000 crinkly one dollar bills :)

 

Lori, Karina, and Kym (Karina's husband Danny couldn't run with us because he's on his way to Afghanistan)

 

 

Karina and Me

 

Karina with her pile-o-cash :)

Comments(23)
Total Distance
32.91
Asics 2130blk Miles: 24.75
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