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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
11.753.100.000.0014.85
Race: BYU Homecoming 5K (3.1 Miles) 00:19:22, Place overall: 30, Place in age division: 1
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
9.003.100.000.0012.10

Great race.  My brother and I were the top 30 year olds.  I like this race cause you get younger people and it's fun to mix it up.  Thought I was going to need a hat but it cleared up and the race was cold but great.  Wore shorts and a long-sleeve.  We thought the race was an hour earlier than it was but that meant a good long w/up, probably 2.5m.  The race starts with a very deceptive uphill and my legs were immediately shock-tired, I felt like I was huffing and in 80th place.   We hit the downhill though and I started to feel good, it was funny to see the pink flamingo in 3rd place toward the start, a marketing ploy, no doubt.  I really started to cruise on the downhill and was pushing it, eating people up.  I ran into a few Runner's corner girls and some other uniformed girls, BYU JV?  I passed them and heard some talk about going with me, which I guess a few of them did.  Once we hit the flats and the turns I was dogging it, still trying to run strong but I felt like I had slowed down.  A few of the girls passed me with 800 to go and I tried to latch on to them.  A 50s guy even passed me before we hit the track.  We ran on grass and made a U-turn (a little course change?) and I picked it up, full-sprint around the 200 turn and passed the girls and older guy, ran into an Army Nat'l guard guy who was encouraged to sprint and I didn't catch him, I slowed down a bit toward the end but I was really happy with my gut-busting kick.  I had to recover for a few minutes, it's the hardest I've pushed myself in a while, I was really happy with that.  Saw Sasha up ahead, knew he was just jogging it, turns out he was pacing a 13 yr old James.  Also met Mike West after who was running with Sasha.

Race results : http://www.runnercard.com/runner/data/1825/1558/result/Mens_5K.htm

Nate got prize $ since a few BYU guys had to opt out, talked with them, Batty and Robison after.  Batty's matured a bit, he told me Bienlien transferred to Kansas (actually Bethel, though I couldn't find results).  Nate was happy with his race, a little slower than he wanted but the course was maybe 1/20th mile long.  Some cooldown with Nate

Sun - lovely winter night run.  Visited Pet Center, slow til bathroom break at Pavilion, then in neighborhoods S down music road, 7th w, got turned around a little so know I went long, felt great, love it.  6m

Comments(1)
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
2.750.000.000.002.75

Just trying to put in the work. Ran in the flesh 1175 loop before B-ball, felt like work but glad I got out there.

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