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Bryce Canyon Half Marathon

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Location:

St George,UT,

Member Since:

Feb 07, 2006

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Short-Term Running Goals:

Run below 2:30 in the Marathon.

Personal:

I currenty live in Southern Utah. My wife Kendra and I have 4 children and no pets. We also own/operate the St. George Running Center a specialty running shoe store in St. George UT.  We also head-up the St. George Running Club.

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Asics 2140 Lifetime Miles: 172.00
Asics 2140 2-17-09 Lifetime Miles: 36.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
51.000.0016.100.0067.10
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
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AM - Ran down and met with the club for our monday 6 miler and ran home. I was feeling a bit run down and tired.

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AM - Morning track work with the club. All the people going to Bryce this weekend did 3x 1 mile at Half Marathon Pace w/ 800m rest.  With Warm-up, workout, and cooldown I hit 9 miles.

Came home and went right back out for another 10 miles down to the Dino park, around the turf farm and back home. Felt pretty good easy but solid pace.

 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
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AM - Left the house this morning about 7:30 am and it was already 90F.  After I got home from the run I looked up what the high is supposed to be today and it said 113F. This heat is not fun.

The run this morning was just blah. I just went out and got it done. Stopped at the park for a drink about 4 miles in, but just took it easy most the way.  Yesterday after my 19 I rushed off to the store without eating and drinking enough and wasn't able to get anything into my system until about 1-2pm, which really messed me up.  I ended up with a really bad head ache that just wouldn't go away - even after a short nap.  By about 8pm it finally went away, but I still feel a little messed-up today.  I just can't play games like that with running in the heat.  When it's cooler I can get away with being stupid like that. I need to be more careful. 10 miles.

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AM - Easy 10 miles with 8 x 100m strides. I was happy it was a little cooler out this morning. Felt pretty smooth during the strides. Starting to get excited about the race this weekend.

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Race: Bryce Canyon Half Marathon (13.1 Miles) 01:15:15, Place overall: 4, Place in age division: 1
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
3.000.0013.100.0016.10

AM - I was really excited to get up and get going this morning for the race. Got out and was able to get in a few miles for a warm-up. Getting up to the starting line and seeing everyone from the club and friends from the store was great. I then started paying a little more attention to who might be going for the money.  I soon realized that there really weren't very many around and thought I might have a small chance to get a little cash. As far as I could tell it was just Peppi, Walter, Myself, but there usually is somebody there that I don't recognize or doesn't start right on the line.

Anyway's here's how the miles went down:

1st 5:34 - Walter and Peppi took off and a couple other people that I didn't recognize. I just stayed back a bit so I didn't hit the first mile too fast.  Weather was overcast, a bit humid, but cool.

2nd 5:57 - After making the first turn and going up the 2nd mile Peppi started to slow a bit due to not being interested in leading into the wind with a slight rain.  I started having flashes of Clyde breaking the wind for Peppi and decided to just stay behind Peppi and see how slow we got.  After about 2 min. a pack of 4 of us were behind Peppi going 6:25 pace and nobody would take the lead. I thought it was quite amusing.

3rd 5:08 - Going into the downhill I took off a bit with everyone else being lead by Walter then Peppi.

4th 5:17 - Basically stayed in third place until mile 8. Was still feeling pretty good bud I already was feeling the "pound" in my quads. I think It might be the end of this pair of Type A's. I also had been running with Bob Lambert or Ogden and He stared to drop a bit through here.

5th 5:29 - Just trying to hold on.  I realized somewhere in here that I just didn't have any mojo this morning. Took my first Gu to see if that would help jump-start my system a bit more. - Didn't seem to help much.

6th 5:31 - Same. Just running by myself.

7th 5:47 - The little rollers before Tropic I started feeling my form drop a bit and as we crested the hill I made the mistake of looking back. I saw that Thierry Dutoit wasn't too far off of me and I just felt like I was toast.  My quads were already thrashed at this point.

8th 5:53 - Thierry Dutoit caught up to me and I was just in enough pain to not care that he passed me. I was just focusing on keeping my form together as much as possible.

9th 6:07 - knew that I wasn't going to catch back-up to Thierry Dutoit and looked back for the second time - and I didn't see a soul. You can see what happened when I discovered no one was behind. I immediately started thinking I was still "in the money" and all mental toughness that I had left.

10th 5:57- same as above

11th 5:54 - same as above

12th 6:14 - Looked back again - no body in sight. Oh, what a competitor I am!!

13th 6:02

13.1 5:20 - Picked it up to look good for the finish line.

I ended up running the race 8 seconds slower than last year. I really felt like I was in better shape.  I still think I am, I just didn't have a good day,.

 

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