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Salt Lake Half Marathon

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Location:

UT,

Member Since:

Jan 17, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

yearly mileage totals (actual running miles, not crosstraining etc)

2008 - 1,317

2009 - 2,654

2010 - 2,578

2011 - 2,618

2012 - 3,083 (ran everyday this year. PR's in half and full marathons, at age 48!)

2013 - 1,177

2014 - 1,716

2015 - 1,060

2016 - 951

2017 - 786

2018 - 1,058

2019 - 1,211

2020 - 1010

2021 - 1064.9

2022 - 1135.9

Short-Term Running Goals:

reacquaint myself with my long lost running freak, and then proceed to get my running freak on

run faster

increase mileage in the Spring 

keep running

 

 

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

run

 

Personal:

born in 1964. married 25 years. one wife one dog

6 ft tall, nation wide

"Engaging in a little suffering — however self-imposed, arbitrary and contrived — before breakfast each morning tends to demand some humility and injects some marked relief into the rest of the day, making things sharper, more inspired, more immediately aware of the powerful presence of being. And that seems really worthwhile." A. Krupicka

 

"I cruised down hills, churned up hills, and floated over the asphalt, existing in a world that seemed to lack the confinements of such ubiquitous rivets as time, obligation, or pain. I knew then that this was destined to be one of those serendipitous runs for which so many of 
us strive yet so rarely achieve." J. Nevels

 

 

 

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Switchbacksblack Lifetime Miles: 176.50
Kinvara11(2) Lifetime Miles: 362.50
Kinvara11blue Lifetime Miles: 327.70
Rincon2 Lifetime Miles: 262.40
Spg 4’s Lifetime Miles: 135.50
Skechers Razor3 Lifetime Miles: 160.90
Rincon2(2) Lifetime Miles: 85.50
Asics Noosa14 Lifetime Miles: 73.00
Sauconyaxon2 Lifetime Miles: 73.80
Mach 4 Lifetime Miles: 34.50
Total Distance
44.20
Hyperspeed 4 Miles: 6.00Treadmill Shoe Miles: 3.00Junk Shoes Miles: 10.00GSS 3 Miles: 6.20GSS 3 (2) Miles: 5.00Asics DS 13 Miles: 14.00
Weight: 0.00
Total Distance
6.00

6 miles / 48:37 / 8:06 avg. Half mile loops at the mystery field track. Overcast, 68 degrees, windy.Ran miles 3 and 5 faster.

Splits: 8:54, 8:34, 6:56, 8:53, 7:00, 8:18.

Hyperspeed 4 Miles: 6.00
Weight: 0.00
Comments(5)
Total Distance
3.00

Easy 3 on the T in the PM. 8:37 avg.

Treadmill Shoe Miles: 3.00
Weight: 0.00
Comments(2)
Total Distance
0.00

Off today. Good week to cut back. The SL Half on Saturday yo!

Weight: 0.00
Comments(5)
Total Distance
10.00

10 miles / 1:22:03 / 8:12 avg. Lunch run. From work/Emerald park. Sun, 55 degrees.

After 5 miles I did 10 x 1 minute intervals with equal time recovery. I tried to get the pace on the intervals down to 7:00 mm or faster.

Splits: 8:53, 8:21, 8:03, 8:08, 8:10, 8:13, 7:43, 7:49, 8:33, 8:06

Junk Shoes Miles: 10.00
Weight: 0.00
Comments(4)
Total Distance
6.20

6.2 miles / 9:00 avg. Early lunch run from work and about. Recovery run. Crazy beautiful weather.

Pre-race high performance diet:

Day before: chocolate donuts, doritos, frozen burritos (nuked, of course), fruit, maybe some rice.

The morning of the race: banana, slice of wheat bread, one frozen burrito.

 

Add edit: I delved into the abyss, and picked up my race packet. Glad that's over with.

GSS 3 Miles: 6.20
Weight: 0.00
Comments(9)
Total Distance
5.00

Easy 5 before work. From the house, around the town. 9:34 avg.

Wife has our home computer (laptop) with her at a writers conference this weekend. So I won't be blogging until tomorrow afternoon when I come back to work.

 

GSS 3 (2) Miles: 5.00
Weight: 0.00
Comments(6)
Race: Salt Lake Half Marathon (13.12 Miles) 01:44:23, Place overall: 473, Place in age division: 26
Total Distance
14.00

1:43:49 as per Garmin. Official time: 1:44:23. My official time is slower because I stopped my watch for a POP break in mile three. Perfect weather. I jogged about a half mile before the race and another half mile after wards.Well organized race. Hope everybody gets paid on time this year. Got about 3 hours of sleep. I need to figure out what to do about my sleep issues on race days. Felt pretty strong until about mile 10, couldn't maintain pace. Good last mile though as I was eager to get finished. I felt good after the race. I think I could've/should've pushed harder. Lately I've determined in training too that I need to do more speed work, the kind that hurts, mostly to get my mind wrapped around it. So roughly a 5 (4 minutes, 19 seconds), minute PR over my time at the Ogden half last year. And about 2 minutes faster than my little breakthrough training run a couple of weeks ago (04-03-10).

My buddy Lysa (on the blog) ran a really good half today and PR'd!

I'm happy with my result. I am, after all, 46 yrs old. I've only been doing this consistent running thing for less than 2 years. I'm hoping to get PR's still when I'm into my 50's.

Garminesque splits: 8:18, 8:08, 7:45, 7:24, 7:57, 7:55, 7:49, 7:56, 7:49, 8:15, 8:09, 8:34 (they just had to throw that hill on the course), 7:37.

Will post official results when they become available.

Asics DS 13 Miles: 14.00
Weight: 0.00
Comments(15)
Total Distance
44.20
Hyperspeed 4 Miles: 6.00Treadmill Shoe Miles: 3.00Junk Shoes Miles: 10.00GSS 3 Miles: 6.20GSS 3 (2) Miles: 5.00Asics DS 13 Miles: 14.00
Weight: 0.00
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