| 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:
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Run for fun and health, be fit in my 40s
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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.
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Cottonwood Heights 5K (3.1 Miles) 00:21:10, Place overall: 56, Place in age division: 1 | | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 2.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.10 | 5.10 |
| Not too cold, which was nice, ran in long sleeve and w/u pants and floppy hat. Felt great during w/u but when I got off the line and turned right to start on uphill my calves and legs already felt sore. Trekked the long uphill first mile, played a little cat and mouse with a tall bearded guy in red, even on flats, he'd stretch the uphill and I'd catch up on the downhill. Was at top breathing pace but knew I was going slowly. As we climbed and hit the halfway left turn I'd fallen behind tall guy and pink shirt lady. Pushed it out a little on the flat back but was probably going slower than 1st mile. Was mentally preparing for hard last hill and push to finish so probably let people go a little too much. One Portland marathon guy totally cruised on flat doing exactly what I wanted to do (Levi?), he'd started late. He said we were doing the hills at 8:30 pace? I did open up on the downhill and passed a few inlcuding a girl in white who'd passed me on the hill. Couldn't catch pink lady and bearded man was long gone. Possibly beat pink lady on chip time. I was happy with my cruise and sprint to the finish, disappointed with the time. The hills really do damage when strength and weight are low and high (192). But I did push myself, needed to lay down to recover. Calves and legs sore, needed this race to shock the system and be ready for NY race. Have done this race 3 minutes faster but I've also done it 3 minutes slower. In looking at my running notebook, I've had a few times where a bad race leads to a better race. Here's to it.
http://strideracing.com/2013/november/2013_cottonwoodthanks5k_overall.htm Bro's bib
Soli Deo gloria. In Christ who is our hope
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