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Location:

St. George,UT,USA

Member Since:

Dec 26, 2013

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Highschool Champ

Running Accomplishments:

2013 St George Marathon = 2:59:45

Short-Term Running Goals:

Sub 2:45 Marathon

3,000 miles in 2014
 

Long-Term Running Goals:

2:36 Marathon

Personal:

Married, 3 kids, CFA, help coach at Desert Hills High School

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245.55
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6.00

5 at practice, most of it with the girls.  Went out 2 miles, then tempoed back.  Got some water and cooled down.

Swam 1 mile at lunch with the doctor, including 3 x 400.

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10.00

6 this morning from Maverick, through the black hole, out along prospector.

4 more after work.  Hot but there was a little cloud cover.

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7.00

Warmup, fartleks, and cooldown at BH park.  Got in a little extra with boys after the girls were finished.  Legs feel good but something in my lower abs/groin area is super tight.

swam a mile at lunch.

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15.00

Progression run today..... Went very well though I could feel my hip/groin tighten up by the end of it.  Ran 2 miles warmup.  Then ran my first mile in 7:53, then hit the next 11 miles at progressively faster times with the last one being 6:50.  Cooled down for 1 mile afterwards.  Legs overall felt pretty good for the first real long run in a while.  Ice bath afterwards.

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11.20

Mayor's loop with Andy early this morning..........then added on 3 more through St James when we were done.  Groin/hip is really acting up.

Swam 1 mile at lunch.

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8.00

Mile repeats on Tuesday again this week.  Pleased with how it went--was worried my hip/groin was going to be a problem, but it wasn't.  I could feel it, but it didn't hamper me at all.  Cloudy and muggy today, it was better than the heat last week.  Times were a bit better this week--probably because 1) no hill repeats on Monday 2) it was a little cooler.  Times were 6:12, 5:58, 5:50.  Ran with the doctor and took my little brother along---I was surprised he did all 3 in the 6:20 range.  Probably no double today since my little brother and family are staying with us and will demand fun activities this afternoon.

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8.00

8 easy.  Slept in then ended up doing 8 on the treadmill after dinner at Chili's.......not the best idea I have ever had.

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12.00

Long loop with Andy easy this morning.......then added on 3 more after a quick stop at the house.  Hip/groin is back and bugging me again.

Swam a mile at lunch.

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7.00

7 easy.  Still trying to nurse the hip/groin.  Went a little shorter.

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16.00

Up and back on the marathon course from the finish line.  The run up was fairly uneventful---just kept a steady pace (though it does kind of make you feel tough to pass everyone else who has taken the easy way and only runs down).  Made it just past the Ledges overpass when I hit 8 miles and turned around.  Tried to pick it up on the way back down.  Could feel my left Achilles a bit and the hip/groin gradually got more and more annoyed.  Averaged 6:48 on the way back---not an all out effort, but my quads were feeling pretty trashed by the end.  Ice bath afterwards.

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6.00

6 including hill repeats with the girls.  Laynee didn't even know what hit her on the last one.  Sore quads.

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6.00

Ugly run on the treadmill.  Quads are sore, hip is bugging, and I had to hustle to make YM..........not the best run. 

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Race: Chelsi's Run (3.1 Miles) 00:17:25, Place overall: 4, Place in age division: 1
Total Distance
9.00

Did not feel great last night, so I went to bed early and ended up skipping morning practice to get some more sleep.  By midday my throat was feeling better and I knew maybe I still had a chance at running the race.  I drank some EmergenC and hoped for the best.

After work I headed to the gym and ran a 4.5 mile shakeout run.  Legs did not feel great and I knew then that if I was going to place top 10 at the race, I would have to rely completely on my grit and determination.

Tried to take a nap after eating a bit of dinner, but nerves prevented me from getting any real rest.

Showed up at the race a bit early and got some warmup in with some of the other competitors.  Saw a snake on the warmup, which I know rattled some of the other guys, but I didn't let it get to me.  I grew up in this neighborhood and know the course well--a definite advantage as I probably ran the subtle tangents of the course better than anybody else.

Race started at pretty close to 10.  I lined up at the front of the start line, but even still when they fired the gun I got passed by swarms of people who went out quickly but then faded after the first 400 or so.  I ran a good steady pace and ended up catching the lead pack before reaching the first turn on the course.  It was mentioned that a couple of other runners were ahead of the pack, but those runners must have ended up dropping out or something because I never saw them or sensed their presence ahead of me on the 2nd lap.  Sam T caught the above mentioned snake, but carrying it ultimately cost him (I don't think he had the upper body strength needed to really carry it) and I never really saw him after the first lap.

Before you knew it, Bam!, we hit the first mile in 7:46.  Right on pace.  There was still a large group of 15 or so guys, but I knew a lot of them would fade in the 2nd half.  Just after the mile mark there was a family passing out otter pops, but I knew with my marathon training that my body was adapted and that I didn't need to take in calories so early in the race.  Some of the guys who peeled off for otter pops caught back us to us, others fell off the pace and never really regained contact.  At this point I looked around and started evaluating my competition.  Lots of them were talking and laughing and acting like the pace wasn't hurting them, but deep down in places they don't like to talk about I knew they were suffering just as much as I was.  Before long the bright lights of the finish line came into view and lap 1 was almost complete.  Everything went into a blur for a moment when we passed underneath the bright lights and came by the roaring crowd.  I missed getting my split for lap 1 but I did manage to grab a cup of water.  I drank some, then threw the rest on Jaiden as I knew that would psyche him out and make it hard for him to stay with the pack on lap 2.

Just after the finish line I threw my cup to the curb and Logan yelled at me for littering.  This was my first clue that he wasn't feeling well--he was trying to project his negativity onto me--but I wasn't having any of it.  I knew Logan would want to win this race (he tapered almost all of last week in preparation for it) and with Holt not there he probably thought he had a chance, but I also knew he hasn't done all the speedwork I had and that if things went crazy the last mile I would have an advantage.

I settled down into a rhythm for the 2nd lap.  At some point just after the church a short stocky dude came up on the pack and slowly passed everyone on the inside.  At this point Jaiden was nowhere to be found.  My water dump trick had worked.  The short stocky dude kept surging here and there and slowly built up a 20 meter lead.  At this point I realized he could prove a challenge to chances of winning.  I decided that I had to keep in contact with him and not let him build a bigger lead.  Right about then we hit mile 2, 7:45.  Perfect.  Even pacing.  I run all of my best races of even pacing.  As I concentrated on keeping up with short stocky dude (SSD) the pack started to bifurcate.  The stronger runners stayed with me, but lots of others fell back into a slower pace.  Logan, Tanner, Sage, Scotty--they all couldn't handle a slight faster pace and slowly faded behind us like a setting sun slowing hiding behind the mountains. 

Entering the 3rd mile we started to encounter the walkers who were being lapped.  Lots of our pack made the mistake of trying to pass people by going out into the middle of the road to go around them.  I maintained my inside positioning, running in the gutter lane whenever I had to pass people.  Every time we passed a big group, I had like a 5-6 foot advantage because of this strategy.  Just before we hit the end of Lizzie Lane I looked around and saw that the lead pack was now down to 8 guys.  We had caught SSD, but he was still running with us.  By this time I was starting to feel the effects of my running without calories strategy and I really hoped the otter pop family would still be around handing out otter pops or red bulls...........but when we got to the corner they had nothing.....nothing at all.  Speaking of nothing at all, my legs had nothing left and I knew if I let myself, I would ended up fading.  It was at this point I decided to just go for it.

As we rounded the corner on to St James Lane, I surged, taking the pace from probably 7:30 pace to what must have been about 4:25 or 4:27 pace.  Once I picked up the pace my legs actually felt great--I probably should have just run the race at this pace the whole time and I probably would have done better.  I was still weaving in and out of slower runners which started to wear on my legs after a time.  The pack caught back up to me.  I noticed Jaiden was with us now--he must have cut part of the course to catch back up, because I hadn't noticed him the whole 2nd lap.  Brigham was there and I worried about his kick.  Joe and Boston started going with about 400 to go and for a second I gave up.  Brigham passed me.  Bryson passed me. Gibby passed me.  2 or 3 other guys got a few meters on me.  I was just about to coast in when I decided just to lay it all on the line.  I got my turnover really high and started flying.  I passed Gibby.  I caught the other guys.  I passed Brigham like he wasn't even trying.  I almost caught Bryson and the others, and would have if there had been another 100 meters in the race, but I just ran out of runway. 

In the end I think I ended up 4th.  The clock said 22:25 when I crossed the finish line, but once you adjust for the heat index, altitude, the hilly course profile, and the late night start time, I think the effort was more like a 17:25.  I'll be back next year to take another crack at it.  Next year I won't make the same mistake and will just hammer it from the start.

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Total Distance
11.00

Team ditched me to go to Navajo Lake.  I ended up doing 11 on my own. 

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7.50

Dirt mile repeats out by Coach Thatcher's house.  Ran with some of the sophomores on the first one (6:30), then with Laynee (6:40), then the last one with the sophomores again (6:13).  Legs were still spent from the Chelsi run and hip/groin was super tight at the end.  Probably just swim later today and then get a longer run in tomorrow.

Swam 1 mile at lunch.

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19.00

Ran (actually mostly just hiked on the way up, but my heart rate was elevated the whole time) from the Browns point trailhead up to Further Water and then to the head of Forsyth Canyon, then turned around and went back.  Total distance was 6 miles each way, but very rough and steep--total elevation gain was 4600 feet).  Not in a hurry to do that one again.

Was going to be done for the week....but it rained, so I headed out and did 7 with the dr around the fields.

 

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10.00

7 this morning with the doctor.  Warmed up.  I am still very sore (quads mostly) from the up and down of Saturday, but decided to move up the interval workout for the week a day so I could do a little tempo on Wednesday and still have some time to recover before doing the Des News 1/2 on Friday.  I'd like to do the race this weekend just to see where I'm at fitness wise.

Anyways, the plan this morning was to do 6 x 800 at 2:50-3:00.  The doctor has a 1/2 mile course mapped out around his neighborhood which we ran.  Times were 3:16, 3:00, 3:00, 2:59, 2:56, 2:59.  The first 3 were net uphill and the last 3 were run downhill.  My garmin measure the loop a bit long at .53 miles (so it may have been 8-9 seconds slow b/c of that).  Cooled down.

Made it to practice and just ran the warmup and to the hill workout--but skipped doing any of the workout.

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10.25

5.25 at morning practice.  Ran with the girls and Alexis took us to the stupid kinder mtn.

5 after work super easy.  Quads are still incredibly sore from Saturday.  Need them to get feeling better.

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5.50

Ran out by Warner Valley with the team.  Still sore and dragging just a bit.  Ended up doing a 2 mile tempo with Doty and Bailey on the way back to the cars.  Going to take the afternoon off to give my body a chance to recover before Friday.

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Quads were still thrashed and I had a ton to get done before leaving town.............thus I ended up with a zero for the day.

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Race: Deseret News Half (13.1 Miles) 01:26:47, Place overall: 26, Place in age division: 1
Total Distance
15.10

I drove up to SLC Thursday evening and stayed at a friend's house to run the Deseret News Half.  I wanted to see where my fitness was at.  Overall, I was mildly dissapointed with my race.  I was hoping to run 1-2 minutes faster, but it is what it is.  My previous best 1/2 marathon was last year's Little Grand Canyon where I ran 1:29:24.  I did run the 2nd half of St George in 2013 in 1:27:30--so this was a PR by a little bit.

Got up early Friday and got on the buses--ended up at the start with 75 minutes to kill.  Tried to stay warm in a tent, then did a little warm-up and took care of business out in the bushes.  Splits were as follows:

1--6:07  Perhaps a little fast but it was the fastest mile on the course and I was still behind some chubby guy with a 1/2 gallon of water in a camelback.  After the first mile I caught 2 people and 3 people passed me......so overall the pacing was probably alright.

2--6:22

3--6:28

4--6:29

5--6:40  a little bit of uphill coming out of the canyon

6--6:27

7--6:24

8--6:44  Uphill/flat towards research park

9--6:16  Triathlete guy passed me here and I stayed with him until the next hill

10--6:43  Some uphill before dropping down to South Temple

11--6:43  Should have been faster but I hit a wall of walkers from the 10K

12--6:44  Weaving in and out of 10K people, could no longer see triathlete guy

13--7:10  Calves were cooked--I was ready to be done.

.2 @ 7:14 pace.

Overall average pace on my watch was 6:34.

Ran a couple of slow miles cooldown back up to the U to get my truck.  Took an icebath afterwards before heading home.

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6.00

Was off in the mountains camping with the doctor and our families.  I ran 6 miles slowly........groin/hip hurt and calves were tight.  Saw Alexis on a 4 wheeler....what are the odds?

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10.00

6 at morning practice including some fartleks with the girls.  Slow and stiff but felt better as the morning progressed.

4 after work.

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6.00

Tough morning.  Just had no juice.  Ended up doing 6 by myself.

Adam massage at lunch.......hopefully that helps the calves loosen up before camp.

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6.00

6 in the morning before camp.

Didn't get to camp in time to catch the afternoon run.

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9.00

6 around Puffer Lake.

3 on the alpine loop that evening.

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9.00

Calling in 6 to the top of Delano peak.  It may be less than this.......but it took plenty of effort to get to the top.

3 in the afternoon for the relays.  My team won.

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