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Location:

Salt Lake City,UT,

Member Since:

Nov 14, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

50k:  4:59 at Buffalo Run in 2010  (32 miles)

Marathon:  3:01 at St. George in 2009!

Half:  1:29 at Painter's/ St. George in 2009.  1:27 at Salt Lake in 2009 (aided course)

10k: 40:53 Greek Festival 10k at Sugar House park in 2010.

5miles: 32:10 Dam 2 Dam in 2009.  Master's winner.

5k: 20:00:00  19:54 in May 2010.

2008:  Ran the Slam + Boston

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Short-Term Running Goals:

Carpe Diem.

Don't trip over my own feet.

Long-Term Running Goals:

Keep running.

Personal:

1 wife

1 girl child

1 boy child

1 big dog

1 little dog

I'm a geologist for my day job.

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6.100.000.000.006.10

EZ.  Memory Grove, City Creek....  tic,tic,tic....

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EZ on JRP.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.900.000.000.005.90

EZ.  Random route around Logan.

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EZ.  Random route around Logan.  I don't feel ready for Ogden, but I guess I'm as ready as I'll ever be. 

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Race: Ogden Marathon (26.2 Miles) 03:17:13, Place in age division: 12
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Unlike previous Ogden races, I did not finish in 3:18, but only just barely- 3:17:13. Ave pace 7:32.

I did not do much training specifically for this race, since it came 2 months after the Buffalo Run 50k, a slower trail run.  Between the two I recovered, then added speed and tempo runs, then tapered.  I did one crummy 18 miler and a bunch of decent 16 milers.  

I didn't have much of a race plan but sort of thought I might shoot for 7:00-7:15 pace for the first 8 downhill miles, then 7:15-7:30 for the rollers through the half, then pick it back up after the uphill.  The first 8 went swell. Somewhere near the 1/2 my quads started to hurt.  I was thinking, "this is way too early for this much pain, I'm going to die..."  Well I couldn't pick the pace back up but I didn't die either.  

7mi split-Pace 1/2 split-Pace 18mi split-Pace 23mi split-Pace 

00:49:38-7:05 01:35:59-7:20 02:18:14-7:41 02:52:31-7:30 

Here are my splits and heart rate for this year - 2008 - 2007 

1-   7:07/154 - 7:31/153 -  7:43

2-   7:17/159 - 7:27/165 -   7:24

3-   7:09/159 - 7:25/164 -   7:07

4-   7:10/160 - 7:28/165 - 7:27
5-   7:09/161 - 7:21/167  - 7:36*
6-   7:10/161 - 7:30/166  - 7:20ave

7-   7:11/160 - 7:25/166  - 7:20ave
8-   7:11/160 - 7:27/165  - 7:20ave
9-   7:29/162 - 7:33/168  - 7 :32*
10- 7:27/163 - 7:31/168  - 7:32ave
11- 7:37/164 - 7:43/168  - 7:33
12- 8:03/161*- 7:34/169 - 7:18
13- 7:38/163 - 7:39/170  - 7:48*
14- 7:29/163 - 7:37/168  - 7:19
15- 8:05/163 - 8:01/170  - 7:34
16- 7:30/166 - 7:55/169  - 7:34ave
17- 7:30/166 - 7:55/169  - 7:34ave
18- 7:26/163 - 7:14/170  - 7:09
19- 7:33/166 - 7:19/171  - 7:09ave
20- 7:37/167 - 7:31/170  - 7:09ave
21- 7:36/166 - 7:28/171  - 7:09
22- 7:34/168 - 7:19/170  - 7:09ave
23- 7:35/167 - 6:48/173  - 7:19
24- 7:41/171 - 7:21/175  - 7:43
25- 7:44/171 - 7:56/172  - 8:00ish
26- 7:49/174 - 7:59/172 - 8:00ish ave

3:17:13 - 3:18:53 - 3:18:07  

*pee stop.   2007 was a goal race.  2008 I paced people for the first 18. 

So I started and ended at a faster pace than in the past but my finish time was almost the same.  I just had no speed coming down from the dam.   My heart rate was slower.  Is this just old age?  I think the early quad pain tells me I need to do more downhill training, especially for St. G??

I stuck around at the finish for over an hour, but didn't see anyone other than Kathy.  Why?

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