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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
18.509.300.000.0027.80
Race: Draper Days (3.1 Miles) 00:20:36
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.503.100.000.008.60

Ran for the first time in racing flats.  It was great.  Ran nice and even the first mile, probably a little slow: 6:45, then the downhill mile in 6:30, started to pass people, then the last mile had my eye on a group including 3 pre-teen boys.  Managed to pass them all with 1/4 mile to go, right turn down hill, left turn up hill, people cheering for the boys who started their kick at the 3 mile mark.  I was sandwiched between them and then behind them, but I relaxed, found another gear and gobbled them up, I even had another gear 10 yards from the finish.  Relaxation focus is the key, felt good but I know I'm not all that special to outkick these kids, but it still feels good to know I had a kick.  Last mile in 6:36.  Nate was 5th, with Stephen Clark in 3rd unable to take $ he was mad that he didn't kick it to get 4th.  He's faster than he was before but still finishing just out of the money. 

Sun-morning ran a nice 3.5, met an older short Mexican guy and talked with him to Bridgeside bridge.  Volleyball in the afternoon and a lamppost race where I used the first to the lamppost strategy and kicking it in to be ahead of Nate through the finish. 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
9.000.000.000.009.00

Sun morning - did easy N out to Bridge, met up with older Mexican guy and jogged and chatted, ran back in a light rain, nice though I did feel pretty heavy.  3.5 m

Mon nite - trying to find the motivation, talked with Erin, then ran 1175 W loop, felt pretty good once I got going.  2.5m

Tues- b-ball, even teams the whole nite; Wed morn - met up with T-ville X-country for first time, we had seven people.  The plan was to run to the Bear but we ended up running to my park 4800, it was pretty slow.  3 m Wed nite - rollerbladed with the slct club around Liberty Park, got a chance to talk to Neal G for a while. 

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Race: Deseret News 10K (6.2 Miles) 00:40:57, Place overall: 198, Place in age division: 17
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.006.200.000.0010.20

Left my bike at Liberty, found a good parking spot and had a good warm-up and stretch.  Asked Seth how the Olympic Trials were, he said he'd had a bad race.  Was about 15 yards from the starting line, lost maybe 30 seconds.  Felt pretty good, can't believe how many slower runners will get toward the start.  After about a mile I passed Karla, then on the 3-4 mile flat (N temple? ) I was tucked in behind three red-uniformed girls and was prepared to coast until the last couple miles but Karla passed us so I went with her.  I stayed pretty attached to her and just tried to push the last few miles, passed Doug and some others, had a pretty good kick but passed by a young Oriental guy from Texas.  Congradulated him afterwards. 

Walked from finish looking from Rylee, but didn't see her, ended up running back about a mile, then biked watching marathon finishers.  Talked to Sasha, got a look from Seth, cheered Bill, biked alongside BK the last 2 miles.  He was rolled by a guy behind from 70 yards out to 20, he thought he was going to get caught but he pulled through like a champion, put it to 40 yards by the finish. 

Nate was 16th in a new PR, only beaten by Div 1 college class runners and above, what's that on the scale, a 6? 

10 - World record holder; 9 - Olympian; 8 - Professional runner; 7 - National class; 6 - State class - college runner; 5 - HS runner/Gifted amateur; 4 - Serious runner; 3 - Recreational runner; 2 - Jogger; 1 - Walker

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
18.509.300.000.0027.80
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