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St George Marathon

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Location:

Clinton,UT,

Member Since:

Jun 30, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

Ran Cross Country in high school for a small school and qualified for state all four years.  My Senior year placing 10th.

In high school 3 mile time was consistently in the low 17 minutes 

Top of Utah Half Marathon 1:23:46 (Aug 27, 2011)

Ran Ragnar relay Leg 34 in 47:01 (2008)

Perry 5K   19:41 (July 4, 2011)

Member of the Fast Running Blog Relay team for the Northwest Passage took 2nd place over all

Brigham Peach Days 10K 39:52 (Sept 10. 2011)

St George Marathon 2:56:21 (Oct 1, 2011) 

 

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

 

Run a 5K in Under 19 minutes

Stay in shape during the winter time

 

2013 Race schedule

Striders 5K

Striders 10K

Striders 10 Miler

Striders Half Marathon

Striders 30K

Ogden Marathon

Utah Valley Marathon

Clinton 5K

Park City Marathon

St George Marathon 

Long-Term Running Goals:

Time qualify for Boston

Run a 10K in under 40 minutes

Run a 10K in under 38 minutes

Personal:

I am a 37 year old Male.  I have been married now for over 15 years.  I have three kids, all boys.  My boys ages are 14, 11 and 7.  I have always enjoyed running and my wife is slowly being converted.   While I was going through college I didn't do much running so I am having to teach my leg how to run fast again. 

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Run Forest Run's Lifetime Miles: 2.00
Brook Adrenaline GTS 10 #2 Lifetime Miles: 505.59
Brook Adenaline GTS 11 Black Lifetime Miles: 795.65
Brook Adenaline GTS 11 White/Red Lifetime Miles: 784.07
Fast Switch Lifetime Miles: 151.62
Brook Adenaline GTS 12 Blue/White Lifetime Miles: 504.81
Brook Adenaline GTS 12 Blue #2 Lifetime Miles: 139.15
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
146.0526.204.100.00176.35
Brook Glide 4 Miles: 151.15Brook Adrenaline GTS 10 #2 Miles: 26.20
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.100.000.000.005.10

5.1 miles in 40:02 a 7:49 average.

Brook Glide 4 Miles: 5.10
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.100.000.000.004.10

4.1 miles in about 32 minutes.

Brook Glide 4 Miles: 4.10
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.100.000.000.004.10

4.1 miles in about 33 minutes

Brook Glide 4 Miles: 4.10
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
3.000.000.000.003.00

3 miles nice and easy before I drive to St George.

Brook Glide 4 Miles: 4.00
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Race: St George Marathon (26.2 Miles) 03:04:42
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
0.0026.200.000.0026.20

3:04:42.

This is my slowest St George I have ever run.  I have no excesses.  The weather was great.  I came into the race knowing my conditioning was not what it was last year.  Giving my conditioning best case perfect race was sub 3.  I ran the first half in 1:30:30 and felt I could negative split the second half.  I had trouble really running well down the hills.  I hit the 20 mile mark at 2:18:30 a 6:54 average.  I tried to run fast in the 21st and 22st mile by I was still missing the upper end speed.  At mile 24 I hit the wall, mile 25 was a 8:30 mile.  I sprinted into the finish to just come before the 3:05 pacers.

Brook Adrenaline GTS 10 #2 Miles: 26.20
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
2.000.000.000.002.00

2 miles nice and slow.  Ran with my wife today.

Brook Glide 4 Miles: 2.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.000.000.000.004.00

4 miles in about 36 minutes.  My legs are still pretty sore.

Brook Glide 4 Miles: 4.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.000.000.000.004.00

4 mile in 33:20 a 8:20 average.  Legs didn't feel as sore today.

Brook Glide 4 Miles: 4.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.000.000.000.007.00

7 miles in 55:42 a 7:57 average

Brook Glide 4 Miles: 7.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.400.000.000.008.40

8.4 miles in 1:05:40 a 7:42

My legs felt pretty good early, but felt pretty tired by the end.

Brook Glide 4 Miles: 8.40
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.000.000.000.004.00

4 miles not timed

Brook Glide 4 Miles: 4.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.000.000.000.007.00

7 miles untimed.  Wind picked up at the end.  Running into a sandstorm is not fun.

Brook Glide 4 Miles: 7.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.000.000.000.008.00

8 miles not timed.

Brook Glide 4 Miles: 8.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.000.000.000.008.00

8 miles not timed

Brook Glide 4 Miles: 8.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
12.000.000.000.0012.00

12.05 miles in 1:33:28 a 7:45 mile.

I took my 13 year old with me on this run.  The first mile I ran with him.  Then about 1.25 mile I let him run his own pace.  We did laps around a park by my house.  The loop was about 1.15 miles.  He did 3 laps I ran about 10. 

Splits

10:59, 7:49, 6:55, 7:08, 7:20, 7:32, 7:36, 7:39, 7:38, 7:27, 7:37, 7:30, 26 seconds for the last 0.05 miles a 7:59 average. 

Brook Glide 4 Miles: 12.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.300.000.000.008.30

8.3 miles at about 8:19 pace. 

Brook Glide 4 Miles: 8.30
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.100.000.000.008.10

8.1 miles in 1:05:20 a 8:05 miles

Brook Glide 4 Miles: 8.10
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.000.000.000.008.00

8 miles in 60 minutes on the treadmill

Brook Glide 4 Miles: 8.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
1.000.001.000.002.00

2 miles.  The first mile was pretty slow, just warm up for the fast mile.  The fast mile was on a mile challange.  Most of the time the mile challange is run on the track but today the track is covered in snow.  So we did the mile on a section of road.  The road was wet and pretty flat.  I had declared a 5:35 mile.  With wearing "pants", and two shirts and legs still not feeling very fresh from the marathon I know 5:35 was a pipe dream.  I ended up running a 5:58.  I felt pretty good about the run.  When I finished I felt like I could of run at that pace for longer but I just couldn't speed up.

Brook Glide 4 Miles: 2.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.000.000.000.006.00

6 miles in about 50 minutes.  Legs felt sluggist in the first part of the run.

Brook Glide 4 Miles: 6.00
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Race: Spooktacular (3.04 Miles) 00:20:32, Place overall: 7, Place in age division: 2
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
2.000.003.100.005.10

Coming into the race I was hoping to break 20 minutes.  Didn't happen.  The course is pretty tough.  This is the fastest I have ever run this course.  In the next few months I plan on working on my speed.  I am missing my top end speed.

Brook Glide 4 Miles: 5.10
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.650.000.000.0010.65

10.65 in 1:27:50 a 8:14 average.  The first part of the run felt fine.  The last 4 miles my legs were pretty tired.

Brook Glide 4 Miles: 10.65
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.650.000.000.0010.65

10.65 miles in 1:26:50 a 8:09 average.

Brook Glide 4 Miles: 10.65
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.650.000.000.0010.65

10.65 miles in 1:26:04 a 8:03 average.  Ran the base loop.  I signed up for the Striders Winter Racing series today.  I better start looking for hills.

Brook Glide 4 Miles: 10.65
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
146.0526.204.100.00176.35
Brook Glide 4 Miles: 151.15Brook Adrenaline GTS 10 #2 Miles: 26.20
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