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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
4.000.000.003.107.10
Race: Beat the Heat 5K (3.1 Miles) 00:18:23, Place overall: 9, Place in age division: 1
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.000.000.003.107.10

Getting this report out a little late but better nate than lever. I wanted to have a final race against the more serious runners and what better way than the final LDR circuit race? I warmed up a few miles down the avenue road and thought about trying to run 18:00 or so, I thought 18:30 was possible. I felt pretty good and was ready to run. At the start I saw Kyle Perry standing about 4 rows back and I asked him, "Aren't you going to win this race?" I was surprised by his humility and openness, I got to talk with him for a while afterward and he's a great guy, a runner who's enjoying what life has to offer, and not condescending considering he's in another league to most runners. I hope he can find joy in his semi-professional status.

We started off down the hill and I didn't realize it was going to be a slope for so long but I got into my pace, trying to feel like I'm racing, which I certainly was since I first passed Mel, a surprise, and then his son Dakota, a pleasant surprise, and then Bill Cobler, a huge surprise but also anticlimactic.  I've been wanting to beat Bill for 5 years, I know he's gotten a little slower and I've gotten faster, but to pass him in the first 1/2 mile is like achieving a huge goal without any effort. In any case I passed him and set my sights on Zak followed by Adam followed by Devra, a woman who I didn't quite go with in the 1st mile and tried to catch later, but she's a real runner. We hit the steep block hill and as we cruised downhill and set back for home I realized how uphill it now was, the nice slope at the first part of the race was now hard but I was enjoying that because I always try to run the last half faster (at least feeling like I do) and the uphill was just another obstacle to overcome.

I continued on, trying to enjoy the pain and slowly catch Devra, who was slowly catching Adam. I ran my cooldown with Adam, and really enjoyed it, I mistook him for another runner I'd seen ahead of me bfore, particularly because he acted exactly like I thought he would. When Devra caught him I figured he'd take off since I thought he'd be really strong the last mile, and he was. They both caught Zak and left me to catch him too, which I did. In the last moments of a race when you're tired and you start to think complacent thoughts, it's always nice to try to catch that one last person, and Zak was my guy. I caught him and latched on, I think even running even with him a little, but he was a trooper and wasn't about to be eaten up just yet. I made an ignorant error in not knowing that the finish was not where the start was so I was saving myself for an uphill sprint. When we passed the 3 mile mark in 17:50 there wasn't much race left so when I started to spring Zak was ready, I kept pace with him and felt like I was even gaining on him really close to the end but somewhat satisfactorily finished right behind him and patted his back, he ran a good race. I was happy with my time knowing that this wasn't a flat race and that I can compare it to my previous fastest 5K of 3 years ago which was flat, where I ran the exact same time. I feel I'm progressing nicely. Ready to roll and maybe finally have a winter base.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.000.000.003.107.10
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