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Location:

Taylorsville,UT,

Member Since:

Nov 20, 2007

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Age Division Winner

Running Accomplishments:

Eden 10-miler 65:47

Half Marathon 1:26:17

5K 18:01

 I rank somewhere between the competitive recreational runner and the competitive highschool runner. Here's the scale:

10 - World record holder; 9 - Olympic Athlete; 8 - National elite; 7 - Professional runner; 6 - College All-american; 5 - College runner; 4 - Local elite; 3 - Competitive runner; 2 - Recreational runner; 1 - Jogger

It's a tough scale.

Short-Term Running Goals:

 

  • Run for fun and health, be fit in my 40s
  • Run a strong half marathon, under 1:25, good, under 1:20, great.

Long-Term Running Goals:

  • Be a disciplined runner, to be competitive in my age category, and feel strong while racing.
  •  Somehow actually put together a full year of running: increased discipline and decreased distraction and injuries
  • Be a 17/36 guy for 5K/10K (not realistic now)
  • Be a competitive Master's runner

Personal:

Spoken for, Christian, piano player, soli deo gloria, at least that's the ideal. Living for Triune God, beautiful wife, cute sons, self; hopefully in that order but Adam's nature and my own choices, not to mention worldly temptations like to play with the ideal.

Idealism, tempered by reality, with a healthy skepticism.

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NB Red Trail Lifetime Miles: 8.00
Yellow Nike Workout Lifetime Miles: 57.50
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.000.006.203.1015.30
Race: Beat the Heat 5K (3.1 Miles) 00:18:23, Place overall: 9, Place in age division: 1
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.000.000.003.107.10

Getting this report out a little late but better nate than lever. I wanted to have a final race against the more serious runners and what better way than the final LDR circuit race? I warmed up a few miles down the avenue road and thought about trying to run 18:00 or so, I thought 18:30 was possible. I felt pretty good and was ready to run. At the start I saw Kyle Perry standing about 4 rows back and I asked him, "Aren't you going to win this race?" I was surprised by his humility and openness, I got to talk with him for a while afterward and he's a great guy, a runner who's enjoying what life has to offer, and not condescending considering he's in another league to most runners. I hope he can find joy in his semi-professional status.

We started off down the hill and I didn't realize it was going to be a slope for so long but I got into my pace, trying to feel like I'm racing, which I certainly was since I first passed Mel, a surprise, and then his son Dakota, a pleasant surprise, and then Bill Cobler, a huge surprise but also anticlimactic.  I've been wanting to beat Bill for 5 years, I know he's gotten a little slower and I've gotten faster, but to pass him in the first 1/2 mile is like achieving a huge goal without any effort. In any case I passed him and set my sights on Zak followed by Adam followed by Devra, a woman who I didn't quite go with in the 1st mile and tried to catch later, but she's a real runner. We hit the steep block hill and as we cruised downhill and set back for home I realized how uphill it now was, the nice slope at the first part of the race was now hard but I was enjoying that because I always try to run the last half faster (at least feeling like I do) and the uphill was just another obstacle to overcome.

I continued on, trying to enjoy the pain and slowly catch Devra, who was slowly catching Adam. I ran my cooldown with Adam, and really enjoyed it, I mistook him for another runner I'd seen ahead of me bfore, particularly because he acted exactly like I thought he would. When Devra caught him I figured he'd take off since I thought he'd be really strong the last mile, and he was. They both caught Zak and left me to catch him too, which I did. In the last moments of a race when you're tired and you start to think complacent thoughts, it's always nice to try to catch that one last person, and Zak was my guy. I caught him and latched on, I think even running even with him a little, but he was a trooper and wasn't about to be eaten up just yet. I made an ignorant error in not knowing that the finish was not where the start was so I was saving myself for an uphill sprint. When we passed the 3 mile mark in 17:50 there wasn't much race left so when I started to spring Zak was ready, I kept pace with him and felt like I was even gaining on him really close to the end but somewhat satisfactorily finished right behind him and patted his back, he ran a good race. I was happy with my time knowing that this wasn't a flat race and that I can compare it to my previous fastest 5K of 3 years ago which was flat, where I ran the exact same time. I feel I'm progressing nicely. Ready to roll and maybe finally have a winter base.

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Race: Highway to Hale 10K (6.2 Miles) 00:38:27, Place overall: 6, Place in age division: 1
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
2.000.006.200.008.20

Drove down with the family enjoying the anticipation of a good race, my first 10K since Deseret, which doesn't count. Surprised to see the flashing lights of a cop who asked me if I saw him on the entrance ramp. "Of course I didn't see you." (If I'd seen him I would have slowed down.) So that was the 1st whammy, the second was that according to the race schedule there were to be 2 starts, one for 5K, one for 10K. I watched the crowd line up and take off. Yaaah! Then I ran one more warm-up lap around the block coming back to the start to see, surprise, no one there. I'd even asked a guy in charge if they were going to start at 9:15 and he said yes, but they changed their minds at the last minute. They made an announcement moments before the start but I was in the zone about my race and not listening--also not wearing my hearing aids but I still would have heard if I was trying to hear. So I started about 3 1/2 minutes behind everybody and got the wonderful joy of getting to weave through all the 5K'rs. Since the race was chip-timed I figured it'd be okay but that didn't mean I wasn't running angry for a little bit before I settled in.

I resigned myself to passing people the entire time. When we split off for the 10K course my minions were laid out before me. A group of probably a dozen topped off my a red-shirted runner who looked serious. I ate them up. I felt like explaining myself as I cruised so easily by everybody but I didn't. "I started late so don't worry that I'm passing you so easily, you're still running well." Try saying that in one breath. I think about mile 3.5 I had caught red shirt. We had a tough hill at mile 4 and there were 3 more runners ahead.  The 2nd was a younger kid I passed as we did a step up on a curb along 8th North.

Finally we were on the home straight and there was an orange long-sleeved runner that I set my sights on. He was running a good pace and gave me some doubt but I set myself to catch him, painfully but purposefully. As we made the last turn, his own negative thinking got the best of him and he gave in. So my last sprint was passing 5K'rs once again who were not sprinting. But this definitely counts as my fastest flat 10K ever. Ran 37:18 at Des a year ago, but that's so downhill it's not a great barometer. They did the awards from chip time so all's well that ends well.

Peace and Love from Christ who brought the possibility of peace to all who believe in His Father, the God who is Love.

Comments(2)
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.000.006.203.1015.30
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