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PNTF XC Championships

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Seattle,WA,

Member Since:

Dec 30, 2007

Gender:

Male

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Other

Running Accomplishments:

2019: 10:29 2 mile, 16:33 5k, 27:14 8k, 55:50 15K, 1:16:04 HM

Post Mayan Apocalypse PRs:

200 31.13 (2016, ATC all comers)

400 69.96 (2015, ATC all comers)

800 2:19 (2016, ATC all comers)

Mile 4:58 (2017, ATC all comers) 

3000 9:34 (2017, ATC all comers)

2mile 10:29 (2019, CNW Grand Prix)

5000 16:33.6 (2019, CNW all comers)

5k 16:50 (2018, Green Lake Gobble)

8k 27:14 (2019, Beat the Bridge)

10K 35:16 (2017, Eastside Beltline)

15K 55:10 (2018, Magnuson Park Memorial Day)

10-mile 60:29 (2017, Atlanta 10 mile)

HM 1:16:04 (2019, Lake Sammamish Half)

30K 2:01:56 (2014, Striders WRC 30K)

Mar 2:50:07 (2013, Sojo Marathon)

 

Fiddy "Classic" Accomplishments (before I forget)

2:03 800, 4:11 1500, 9:47 3200, 15:26 5000, 32:30 10000, 1:11:15 HM (unaided), 2:32 marathon (Boston)

Seattle Half Marathon '08-'11: 2nd (1:13), 4th (1:11), 5th (1:14), 2nd (1:13)

2nd MI half 2010 (1:11)

10th Seattle RNR 2009 (2:35)

97th Overall @ Boston 2010 (2:32)

2011 3rd Place @ Des News (2:35) and Top of Utah (2:33)

I once beat 14 year-old Connor Mantz (2011 Utah Valley Half 1:11) and 16 year-old Ben Saarel (2011 Flat as a pancake 16:23 in the f-ing snow)

2011 Salt Lake Half 1st place (1:14), Capitol Half 1st place (1:14), Provo City 4th place (1:16, unaided)

2011 Ragnar Ultra 1st place Wasatch Back Relay

7th place SLC half 2009 (1:11)

2009 Fremont 5k 16:00, 2010 Dart Challenge 16:05, 2011 Draper Days 16:02

2009 Running of the Leopards 15:03, aided

2009 Striders 10mile 1st place (58 mins)

2007 3rd place SCIAC 5k 15:26

2006 D3XC nationals, 184th (of 280)

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6/9 RicknRail Murothin

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get busy living or get busy dying

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Sun, Nov 11, 2018
Race: PNTF XC Championships (6.214 Miles) 00:36:17
Total Distance
11.50

XC race at Woodland park: split into masters (combined), open women, and open men. As I was waiting for the masters race to start, some guy walking his dog asked if it was a high school race and he was suprised when I said it was adults. In most places adult XC is not really a thing, but among the fast runners in the area it's seems to be the most important thing. It's like the WA version of a half marathon down a canyon.

After my relatively poor showing in the 8k version of this course, I didn't have very high expectations. I set a tentative goal of just running the same pace as I did in the 8k but for an extra 2k loop, which would be just under 37.

The start of this race is down a really steep grass hill with poor footing and I was quickly close to the back of the race (there were 60 people). After about 500m we hit a nice downhill stretch and I caught up to Sheridan and Spencer. Hit the first 1k in 3:20 (downhill) and it felt pretty easy. I started to moveup as we climbed the hill back towards the start. 2k in 7:00.

On the second time down the steep hill I started to feel a little sick to my stomach which really kept me from pushing. After that I felt like I ran the rest of the race in cruise control. Spencer got away from me and Sheridan and I worked together. Someone in the back of my mind I knew that I could push a lot harder, but I was worried I was gonna vomit.

Sheridan and I picked off two guys and got passed by one over the final 4 loops but otherwise it stayed pretty much the same. It was a fun race, however, and I think that next year I will do more XC races. In fact, I have two more short ones that I'm going to do this winter.

Split PNTF Emerald City
1k 3:20 3:28
2k 7:00 7:14
3k 10:27 10:47
4k 14:14 14:40
5k 17:47 18:16
6k 21:39 22:11
7k 25:11 25:47
8k 29:02 29:37
9k 32:33 -
10k 36:17 -

 

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Comments
From allie on Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 10:10:59 from 73.53.95.221

things are looking great for the gobbler

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