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Bair Gutsman

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Location:

Bountiful,UT,USA

Member Since:

Jan 24, 2009

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

Winner of 1994 Teton Dam Half Marathon, 1:25:01.

Best Marathon: 3:23:40. (Deseret News 2006).

Completed Utah Grand Slam (2006).

Completed 8 Marathons in 1 year, the last four were each two weeks apart.

Marathons to date: 25.

Short-Term Running Goals:

Stay Healthy

Sub 3:15 Marathon

Train consistently

Finish in the top 10% at all races 

Long-Term Running Goals:

Sub 3 hr marathon

Complete a 100 miler

1st Overall at any race

 

 

Personal:

Hi, my name is Matt and I love to run! I especially enjoy trail running. I am married to Susie and we have six children Connor-10, Jed-8, Jaxine-7, Evan-4, Eliza-2, and Susanna-0. Look for me at your next race, I wear the same bright yellow Twinkies shirt at all my races.

Favorite Course: Mid-Mountain Marathon, Park City, Utah

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Race: Bair Gutsman (11 Miles) 02:53:06, Place overall: 24, Place in age division: 9
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I ran this race last year for the first time. It is an extremely challenging uphill grind followed by an extremely technical downhill run. It uses the same trail for up and down. I had somehow forgotten the pain and signed up for the race again. The started the race two minutes early, and I was just coming out of the restroom. I started out at the back of the pack. The first 1.5 miles is paved road. This got the runners spread out a bit. The we hit the trail The next 3.5 is a dirt trail up the mountain. Some stretches of it are very steep. Heading up I saw Matt Williams at about the same place in the race that I saw him last year. Passing him was Deja Vu. I made it up in decent time, but my legs felt dead at the top. There was one aid station at the top. After refueling I felt better and started bombing the downhill. I passed several people on the downhill. Towards the end of the trail I tripped and went down hard. My hand was bleeding and my knees were scratched up. I was able to maintain a stronger pace than last year and finished in 2:53:06. Which is 2:32 faster than last year. Matt Williams also beat his time from last year. It was tons of fun.

Comments
From prestonmadera on Sat, Aug 04, 2012 at 23:30:01 from 67.186.200.142

You are brave! I'm too scared to even try something like that!

From Dorsimus on Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 10:49:33 from 209.23.248.163

Nice work! I was happy (and sad at the same time!:)) to see you coming up strong there at the top. Great job out there - it is a brutal one!

From Twinkies on Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 19:43:32 from 209.116.60.130

Preston - Thanks, I am either brave or stupid.

Matt - Good to see you again. Where is your race report? If you don't blog about, it never really happened.

From Jon on Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 09:13:40 from 98.71.141.210

Man, I would have thought you had learned from your mistakes one of these years and stopped signing up for these crazy hard races... :)

Nice job, Matt. I'll have to come join you at that race one of these years.

From Twinkies on Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 09:52:43 from 63.248.59.181

Jon - Thanks. When it comes to running crazy races...I never learn. You would like this race.

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