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Nick Yengitch

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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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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
NB Red Trail Lifetime Miles: 8.00
Yellow Nike Workout Lifetime Miles: 57.50
Race: Nick Yengitch (2.7 Miles) 00:19:04, Place overall: 3, Place in age division: 1
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
2.000.000.002.704.70

The race that seems to be my only constant, the motivator to get me running again, not to mention a disastrous Thanksgiving 10K--not disastrous, but at least heartless having to walk I won't mention how many times.

Warmed up and saw Cris James plus another young kid and I was right. When we started the young kid, Amann,  went to the front followed by Cris and then further off by me. They were 100 yards ahead by the time we hit the main road and my dad said, "You have some work to do!" I tried to keep a good pace on the downhill but they were about 20 seconds faster per mile. We ran all the way to the fence--happy the young kid knew the route--but before we got there on the slight uphill I was feeling it. As we turned around I felt like I kept up my own personal pace. It was cold (2 wicking long sleeve shirts and no gloves) and the hills make you feel it. I felt like I was at my breath limit and felt glad I had some heart but i was disappointed that when we hit the park again my competitors were out of sight. Had some sprint in but winner was 17:50 and Cris 10 seconds further and me of course a minute back. Had I been running for 2 months rather than 2 weeks maybe this could be different. Here's to motivation.

 


Comments
From Rob Murphy on Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 18:02:35 from 76.27.122.13

You must be happy with that time right? Pretty impressive for such a long "rest period"

Good to see you back blogging.

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