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2007 XC Club Nationals

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Location:

Alexandria,VA,USA

Member Since:

Jun 03, 2007

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

4:34 mile, DC RR Mile, 2007

15:39 5k, Occidental College, 2007

25:52 8k, Rockville Twilighter, 2007

32:54 10k, Shelter Island (tough course!), 2004

49:30 15k, Tulsa Run, 2001

52:21 10 mile, Broad Street Run, Philly (fast course!), 2007

1:08:49 half marathon, Hobble Creek (downhill), 2001

2:28:55 marathon, St. George (downhill), 2006

2:33:04 marathon, Chicago, 2001

Short-Term Running Goals:

15:20 5k

4:25 mile

2:26:00 marathon

Long-Term Running Goals:

sub 15:00 5k

sub 2:22:00 marathon

Personal:

I live in Alexandria, VA, but still consider myself affiliated with Wasatch Athletics in Salt Lake City, UT, and High Noon A.C. in Ithaca, NY. My coach is Demetrio Cabanillas.

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AM: Loops around Marshall high school track for the team fund raiser.1:01:12.

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NOON: Rock Creek Trail, basically added on a mile out and back to my Temple 10 course.  1:30:26.

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NOON: Treadmill, 44:07.  Weather is getting crummy!

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NOON: 3 mile warm up, 5 x 2 min on/off at 5:00 pace on treadmill (1.5 incline), 2 mile cool down.  Just wanted to see how 5 min pace felt on the legs since I have been doing mainly fartlek workouts by feel.  Felt pretty good.  Keep my fingers X'd for Sat!  Guess I have no choice now but to go out hard!

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NOON: NIST, treadmill ,44:30

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NOON: NIST treadmill, 30:56

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PM: One lap around the XC course in West Chester, OH.

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Race: 2007 XC Club Nationals (6.2 Miles) 00:35:39, Place overall: 201
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2007 USATF National Club Cross-Country Championships, West Chester, Ohio.

I raced for the Howard County Striders.  Our team was 42/50 :), but we had a lot of fun!

Results

I was really happy with my race.  I was 201/422 with a time of 35:39... one of my slowest times, but probably one of my best performances!  I felt really good about being in the top half! I had watched the masters race earlier and having raced against a few of those guys I knew about what I should be shooting for on the course.  I knew a banner day would be 35ish (5:37 pace).  I ended up going out in 5:25, consistent with the "Go out hard and die like a man!" philosophy!  Thus, I was feeling it early.  But I managed to stay semi-relaxed and not drop off too much.  We hit the 3 mile in 16:45 (5:35 pace).  The fifth mile was a bear!  The last mile was a dog fight... but I managed to maintain my place and even passed a couple of guys in the last 0.2, which was slightly uphill... which was to my advantage against the speedy guys.  Finished in 35:39 (5:44 pace)... so as you can see, we were ALL dying!

Overall, this was one of the best racing experiences ever!  It was so cool to be among so many awesome runners.  A link to the photos of the weekend is given below.  Hope to see some of you out there next year!

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Long drive back from OH.  Phil Lang was a little green from the night before!

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Burger day at Dogfish!

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NOON: NIST 6, 43:30, I'm back!  Time to start working off the holiday gut...

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NOON: NIST 6, 41:56, sore!

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AM: GT trails with Erik and Kyle,1:20ish.

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NOON: Temple 10, 1:09:01.  Getting cold again.  Started to rain as I was finishing.  Definitely going to take me a few weeks to get my legs back.  I need a massage!

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