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SOJO Marathon

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Location:

South Jordan,UT,United States

Member Since:

Feb 04, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

2010 Ogden Half Marathon 1st overall

2010 Bryce Canyon Half 2nd overall 1:12

2010 St. George Marathon 10th overall

2011 American Fork Half marathon 1st overall New PR 1:10:37

2012-Mt. Nebo Half 1:08:00

2009 St. George Marathon 11th overall 2:31:43

2009 Ogden Marathon 4th place overall

2008 St. George Marathon 2:40:46 18th overall

2008 Tou Half 1:14:35 7th overall

2008 Bear Lake Half marathon 1st place Win. Set Course record.

2008 Provo river Half PR 1:13:28

2008 Boston Marathon 2:49--Beat Lance Armstrong by 2 minutes.

2008 Ogden Marathon 10th overall.

Ragnar Relay Del Sol 2008--1st Place Team Overall. Set new course record! 17 hours 4 minutes 5.38 average pace per mile!

Ragnar Relay Wasatch Back 2008--2nd Place Team overall. 17 hours 54 minutes.

2007 Top of Utah 1/2 Marathon 1:14 4th overall

2007 Wasatch Back Relay 3rd team overall---Very Fun!

Boston, Rock & Roll Arizona, Carlsbad are my favorite marathons.

2007 St. George Marathon 2:40 with puking!39th overall

Short-Term Running Goals:

My short term goals are to stick to a good regime.

~~To bring my marathon pr down in mid 2:30's~~

World Championship Maters Marathon July 17, 2011

USATFLDR Competition Series: Stiders Half, Salt Lake Half, Hobblecreek Half, Heart of Holiday 5k, Running with Leopards 5k, Draper Days 5k, Minuteman 5k, Top of Utah Half.

Great Potato Half marathon--Boise

Running with Ed 41 mile relay. Team Probar

St. George Marathon 2011

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Long-Term Running Goals:

~~My long term goals are to beat sasha~~.

To get my marathon time to 2:20's

Personal:

I have three girls-Sarah, Brooke, and Bailey and a baby boy born in Jan. 2010 named Boston. I own a Concrete Construction company called Quality Footings and Foundations. If any of my fellow bloggers are in need of concrete work just drop me a line or call 801-381-7089 I'll give you the friendly runner discount. Its hard work thats why between work and running I maintain my girlish figure! I own the American Flyers Race Pacers which is on Facebook to join. www.americanflyersracepacers.com

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Sat, Oct 20, 2012

Race: SOJO Marathon (20 Miles) 02:10:00

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I decided late Thursday night after some talk with Josse about switching from the Half to the full marathon as I thought even being able to run nice and easy I could take top three and some cash home. I met Josse going up on the bus. We had a good pep talk and she even wrote Focus on my hand to help me stay in the game. The race started and I didnt push to hard at the start to see who would go and try and take the lead. Nobody would. My first mile was 6 even so I decided to try and stay at 5:45 pace. It wasnt hard to do as its mostly downhill the first 3-4. Then you get the dreaded hill that gets pretty steep in parts all the way to mile 7. I really didnt push it at all and fell to about a 7:30 pace. I felt this would give me more leg at the end. At mile 10 I really started feeling my calves a bit and my time stayed at about 6:10 pace with a slight downhill. I figured I was doomed at this point because we had some serious head wind on all the uphill parts! go figure. So Mile 16 came and this was my breaking point. I could not get my body to push up this last hill with wind. I got to mile 18 and saw the 2nd place guy closing in on me. He caught me right at mile 19 and I was fading fast. I had to do a potty stop and came out and saw no one behind for a mile! I tried to get going but could only get to a run for 20 seconds at a time and I had to stop. I walked a bit and tried to change my running style a bit. I was done. It hurt to walk and run. I saw Erica, Josse's sister at mile 20 and agreed to get a ride with her after she saw Josse come through. She was the 3rd women at this point. I really think Erica and Josse are a class act! They are a great family! Thanks for saving me at that point. I went home after watching Josse come in. Then got ready to go to moab to pace the half.

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Comments

From Keith on Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 20:35:13 from 67.182.234.65

Walter

I ran the Half and struggled myself, not sure if it was the wind or just to soon after Saint George, Did Justin Park call you?

From Walter on Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 20:37:51 from 97.37.97.29

Yes I got him set up to Pace your time On saturday.

From Steve on Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 07:55:24 from 66.87.66.103

Too bad about this one Walter. Sometimes I think a bad race day is just a collection of things that didn't line up. Run it the day after and it could have been a different race. Looking forward to running with you next year!

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