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Location:

Lehi,UT,USA

Member Since:

Apr 29, 2010

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

2009 Provo River Marathon, 4:04:38

2009 Provo Canyon Halloween 1/2 Marathon, 1:27:22

2010 Ogden Marathon, 3:04:39

2010 Deseret News Marathon, 2:51:36

2010 Provo River 1/2 Marathon 1:19:01

2010 Top of Utah Marathon 2:52:24

2010 Just Cuz 1/2 Marathon 1:17:36

2011 13.1 LA 1/2 Marathon 1:19:43

2011 Timpanogos Half 1:16:51

2011 Treadmill Marathon 2:49:26 (pr)

Short-Term Running Goals:

2:45 Boston.

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Race: Provo River 1/2 Marathon (13.1 Miles) 01:19:00, Place overall: 10
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
2.0013.100.000.0015.10

I'll do a more detailed report later, just wanted to give a quick update.  Pretty good day, I have had a side ache the last 2 days which I was worried would act up today but I held up pretty well.  My legs felt amazingly well after another almost 85 mile week so I felt good going in.  There was a lot of confusion at the start line this morning so I just hung out with Sasha figuring the race wouldn't start without him :).  We got started about 10 minutes late which was amazing it started that close to on time considering how confused everyone was.

I did about 2 miles of warm up in the hour and a half I had to wait, just ran up and down the canyon a few times and up the hill for bathroom breaks a few times.

My plan was to just go for it from the start, I figured I do 13 miles everyday so worse case if I blew up I could just slow down to a normal run pace and still finish good.  I did start out very fast for me, but felt good and kept the pace up through the entire canyon to Vivian park, slowed down a bit there and then going back up the canyon was really slow, partially on purpose mostly because of the wind.  At the turn around I picked it back up which I was glad I could do, I was afraid the slow pace going up would cause me to slow down.

Coming back down the canyon it started to get uncomfortably hot, I was hoping to hit the 10 mile marker in under 1 hour, but I hit it at exactly 1 and knew I didn't have an 18 minute 5 K left in me.  I pushed as hard as I could for the last 5K but frankly was pretty shot, I think because of the heat. I don't run in the heat enough.  Actually managed a sprint finish trying to catch the guy in front of me, but I didn't take off soon enough.  He probably got me by about 5 seconds.   Anyway, 10th place overall (again)  my wife thinks I'm in a 10th place rut.  Not a bad rut all things considered.  My Garmin said 1:19:00, the timer was off at the finish so I don't know official time yet.

 

Splits went like this

 

Mile 1-  5:34.66  Most likely my fastest mile split ever. 

Mile 2-  5:48.86

Mile 3-  5:57.62

Mile 4-  5:42.17

Mile 5-  6:07.42

Mile 6-  5:59.74

Mile 7-  6:24.96  Not as bad as I thought going up the hill.  I guessed 7:00

Mile 8-  6:25.51

Mile 9-  5:57.18

Mile 10- 6:00.91

Mile 11- 6:05.78

Mile 12- 6:09.29

Mile 13- 6:13.75

Last 0.1- 1:19.04  Garmin says I hit 4:40 pace on final sprint, I felt fast :)

 

Total time according to Garmin 1:19:04

Side note:  I ran this race last year as someone else in 1:40:??  at the time I thought I totally rocked it.  So I figure all I have to do is improve my time by 21 minutes for next year and I'll break 1 hour.  :)

 http://connect.garmin.com/activity/43808217

Comments
From allie on Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 13:27:37 from 174.23.182.80

nice race, rob. you ran well, especially considering your weekly mileage and the heat. way to kick it in at the end.

it seems that this race always has confusion at the start. there was mega confusion when i ran it in 2008.

From James on Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 13:36:49 from 174.23.38.57

Nice race today!

From Lily on Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 15:05:04 from 67.199.181.73

You did great! I saw you several times and like when I see Walter, it's like superstarom! :) Nice job!

From Matt on Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 16:31:22 from 98.202.72.183

Nice Job. I'm looking forward to your side note becoming a reality.

From Rob on Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 17:20:53 from 204.15.86.95

Yeah!!! Maybe I better take that last part out so no-one hold me to it.

From MarkP on Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 21:11:02 from 24.2.76.180

Nice job. I didn't know that a fellow blogger was in front of me. Next time, you lead up the hill!

From Rob Murphy on Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 22:36:59 from 24.10.248.6

Great job Rob. You are definitely on a roll.

From Rob on Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 10:08:32 from 72.254.127.233

Actual results have been posted. 1:19:01, 3 seconds better than I thought. Nice.

http://www.trailrun.com/scripts/show_results.php3

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