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Striders Half 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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Sponsors so far:

Probar, St. George Running Center

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, Apr 06, 2013

Race: Striders Half Marathon (13.1 Miles) 01:14:10, Place overall: 9, Place in age division: 1

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Got to the buses and organized the pacers and got their gear together and some instructions. Then Got the Go Pro cameras out and on 5 of the 10 lucky pace groups. Got on the buses and headed up to the start and I was 20 minutes from starting time. The line to the porta potti was a good 30 or more minutes long so I took off for the bushes. I saw they had a campground so I went to look for a bathroom there. Walla! A good one with no wait. I did my business and paper work and then headed for the start. I should have stripped down to a singlet but I chickened out so I had my singlet over the shirt. I took off at the start and the pack of 4 fast runners seperated from us pretty quick. I stayed about 5-10 seconds behind them to mile 1 when I did a 5:19. I felt like I was pushing hard for this time. I honestly was expecting 5:08 or so. I kind of fell back to 6th postion till a few miles and then Albert and another guy passed me and I used them as a wind shield for a bit and then passed the one up to get to 8th overall. I pretty much stayed like that the whole way. I love the turn around mile 9.5 with the horses! So cool! They love to run along side of the field with you. So cool! I then started falling back off pace a bit. I was struggling for a 5:45 the last 3 miles. I had one mile that was 5:54. Steve Anderson was awesome! He mounted a go pro camera to his jeep and was driving up and down the course cheering us on. At mile 11 he ran with me for about a quarter mile. I was extremely tired at that point. I worked to hard this week with concrete work and long hours. Body is not used to that. Got all the pacers in on time and they had a blast carrying the cameras! I cant wait to edit it into a clip! This event was part of the USATFLDR circuit so I won cashola for 1st in masters. It was great weather and the winner hit a 1:07 on the course. Smoking fast! I find it pretty difficult.

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Comments

From Steve on Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 09:12:40 from 66.87.126.146

I'd have to say I think you have about the best running economics of anyone I watched up there yesterday. Pretty smooth. I'll ge you some video of that race sometime.

Good race.

From SpencerSimpson on Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 09:40:26 from 166.137.191.46

Cool report Walter. I will probably race this one next year. I'm doing Provo City Half as the next jaunt. :)

From Mattrow on Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 16:35:47 from 75.169.26.136

Good to see you again. Having cameras on the paces is cool.

From Walter on Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 16:44:03 from 97.37.73.160

Steve, I found myself speeding up as well as Albert as you passed us and pulled over. I'd like you to make a copy for me so we can make a video of this race. What it's like to be in the front pack, what it's like to chase the front pack and what it's like to pace.

Spencer that's great! Good luck.

Matt, it was great to see you up there! I may need to find an editor for this video I'm making.

From Steve on Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 18:16:40 from 24.10.141.242

I'll have some of the clips put together this afternoon. i didn't do that great a job. I learned a lot about how to NOT run the camera.

From Walter on Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 18:25:12 from 97.37.73.160

Steve, ill have to call you. I'm having a hard time. Do you have editing software?

From Christie on Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 06:26:53 from 74.213.202.246

High five and another great race for you. I want to see the clips once you have them edited.

From Walter on Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 06:52:33 from 97.37.73.160

Christie, here's some that Steve A. From this blog took. Check out my slow mo he did at the 2:50 mark. Crazy long legs of mine. Lol http://www.facebook.com/walter.brown.50/posts/112938198904020

From Steve on Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 09:43:44 from 67.40.118.46

For Go Pro you can always watch your videos using VLC, a freeware viewer. Go Pro has a free software program called Cineform that you can download from their site that will convert any file to AVI or MP3. Then you can use any easy program such as Windows Moviemaker to edit. Anyone who edits footage at all won't use any of these because it downgrades your HD footage. Honestly my computer can't handle the editing of HD anyway and it's hard to wait on downloading so I use these programs.

From Walter on Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 09:46:44 from 97.37.73.160

I will look into it Steve. Thanks!

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