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Havasu Halloween Fun Run

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Location:

Lake Havasu City,AZ,

Member Since:

Sep 29, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

23 marathons

6 Bostons (2007-2011, 2017)

3 Half Ironmans

2 Ironmans

3 50 Milers

1 Grand Canyon Rim to Rim to Rim

Marathon PR:

     2:59:00 St. George 2008

     2:58:03 Boston 2010

 1/2 Marathon PR:

     1:25:41  Havasu Half 2009

     1:24:09 Painter's St.George 2010

 Half Ironman PR:

      5:25:02  HITS Havasu 2014

5K PR:

       18:23  LHC Turkey Trot 2014

        18:22  LHC Turkey Trot 2017

50 mile PR:

        7:56:14 Avalon50 2016

Short-Term Running Goals:

Break 3 hours again

Doing it a Boston would be sweet!

It was sweet!

UPCOMING RACES

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

Have fun!

 

Personal:

Married

4 kids

Optometrist

 

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Inov8 G270 Lifetime Miles: 20.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
12.808.203.105.000.0029.10
SpeedStar 2 #2 Miles: 9.00Cumulus Miles: 1.00SpeedStar 2 Miles: 9.00Addidas Bostons Miles: 6.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.808.200.000.000.009.00

I scored a new pair of SpeedStars that I needed to break in this morning. I love running in new shoes.

I warmed up with a really easy .25 miles then set the TM to Hills 3.6% max incline, 8.2mph (7:19) and ran for an hour. Finished with a .55 mile cool down for a full 9 miles. The run felt great! I'm hoping to be able to do it at 9.0 for an hour on the same hill setting by Jan 1.

SpeedStar 2 #2 Miles: 9.00
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I've settled into this Tues morning routine with the CardioCore class followed by lower body weights, ab work, 20 min stair speed intervals, then 1 mile cool down run on the TM, and I like it.  It gives me a day that is completely different from the norm.

Cumulus Miles: 1.00
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Mile repeats today at 1% incline!!!  : )

I warmed up for 1 mile at 8:00.

Then 5x1 mile.  First 4 at 6:15.  Last one at 6:05

Half mile recoveries at 12:00 pace

Then cooled down for another mile at 8:00

Run felt great.  I'm excited to go for 6 repeats next week and then start to bring down the speed.

SpeedStar 2 Miles: 9.00
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Nice easy day today.  I was suprised how good my legs felt after yesterday's mile repeats and considered doning something harder... for about 3 seconds, and then decided to keep with the easy workout plan.

Full body weights and abs

30 minutes elliptical.

I need more ideas about a costume for my 5k on Sat.  So far on the forum, I've only got the idea to dress as a girl.  I'm just not sure if I'm in touch with my femanine side enough to go there. 

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I've been looking for a new pair of shoes with more cushion for my longer runs.  I settled on the Addidas Bostons, mostly cause I liked the name.  :)  They also seemed to get good reviews and are not very heavy for a cushioned shoe.  I wore them today and I think I like them.

6 very EZ miles on the TM 1%  at 8:00.  I wanted to keep it easy since I'm racing tomorrow.

What a difference a month makes.   After my first full month of running since March, I am 10 lbs lighter, feel nice and lean like a runner again, have more energy, am happier, and life is sweet.  I sure hope I'm not jinxing myself, but running sure makes my life better and so do my fellow FRBers.

Addidas Bostons Miles: 6.00
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Race: Havasu Halloween Fun Run (3.1 Miles) 00:19:40, Place overall: 2, Place in age division: 1
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
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My internet at home has been down since Friday, so I finally snuck in to work this evening to post my race report. 

First, thanks for all the suggestions for costumes.  I ended up using Paul's suggestion, and not the soccer uniform.  I really wanted to run with a cape, so Captain Underpants it was.  After a nice warm up mile with some freinds, I stripped off the shirt and sweat pants, revealing the super large whitey tighteys I picked up the night before at K-Mart over my running shorts.  Then I put on the red cape I made out of some extra material my wife had laying around.  After a few shocked looks, someone finally said, "Captain Underpants!"  and everyone seemed to love the look.  I had a few people tell me I should sport it at every race.  I think I definitely got more cheers than anyone else and as I was approach the finish, my wife said someone said "That is my eye doctor" and the finish line people started yelling through the bull horn, "Go Dr. Underpants!"  One lady in our ward was there and she couldn't look at me, but all in all it was fun to let my guard down and be silly.

Anyways, to the race.

After sizing up the group, there was one guy I knew would beat me.  He runs for Arizona State.  And there was one guy I didn't know that looked like a serious runner sporting his racing flats.  Everyone else I was pretty confident I would beat.  We took off, and sure enough the young college kid was off like a rocket.  I went out easy with the rest of the group and was in the lead until about the half mile mark, when the tall skinny fast looking guy moved past me.  Normally I just run my own race and try not to let others paces affect me, but I decided to go with him.  The pace was a bit faster than I hoped, but I decided I would stay with him as long as possible. 

This course is difficult in that it drops about 400 ft in the first mile then climbs about 100 ft to the turn around, then back down that 100 feet and up the last mile 400ft.

At the 1 mile mark we were at 5:38.  I was breathing a bit hard, but hanging on right behind speedy looking dude.  We hit the turn around at 9:10 and I was finally settling into a rythm.  We came back down to the 2 mile mark with the split at 6:28.  I could tell he had backed off the pace just a touch after the turn around and my confidence raised.  We ran side by side from the turn around back.  When you hit the last mile there is a very steep hill.  We moved up side by side.  Then it levels out just a little for about 50 yards before the last steep hill.  As I approached the hill I decided I was going to surge when we hit the hill.  I gave it every thing up that last steep hill and he didn't answer.  I had about a 6 second gap.  Now I just had to finish out the last 1/3 mile on about a 3% incline without him catching me.  I continued to press all out and he never closed the gape.  I finished in 19:40 for 2nd place and he finished in 19:46 for third.  First place was 16:40.  

It was really fun to race a race against another runner instead of the clock.  I talked with him afterwards and he lives in Kingman and is coming back in 3 weeks for the Turkey Trot on teh exact same course.  I'm looking forward to racing him again and hopefully cutting about 40 seconds off the time to match last years Turkey Trot.

When I get my computer at home up and running I'll post pictures.  Just hide your children.  They are PG-13.

/Users/doone/Pictures/iPhoto Library/2009/10/31/100_2990.JPG Me coming to the finish line.\ /Users/doone/Pictures/iPhoto Library/2009/10/31/100_2995.JPG Mel, Dana, and I

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
12.808.203.105.000.0029.10
SpeedStar 2 #2 Miles: 9.00Cumulus Miles: 1.00SpeedStar 2 Miles: 9.00Addidas Bostons Miles: 6.00
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