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Highway to Hale 10K

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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
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
From Missee on Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 16:49:29 from 173.14.225.246

Great race report! Sorry about the police officer.

I started late on a race once but it was because I couldn't find the venue!

Awesome finish time! :-)

From Ruthio on Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 15:31:27 from 75.162.113.221

Nicely done! I see you know a whole lot about bad starts :), good job staying positive and catching so many. Solid time and amazing attitude with a lot of unfortunate events!

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