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Cookie Chaser 2k and 5k

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Location:

Seattle,WA,

Member Since:

Dec 30, 2007

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

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)

Short-Term Running Goals:

5/18 Bart the Brodge

6/9 RicknRail Murothin

Long-Term Running Goals:

get busy living or get busy dying

Personal:

Crop rotation in the 14th century became considerably more widespread after John.

 

 
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Sat, Apr 30, 2011
Race: Cookie Chaser 2k and 5k (3.1 Miles) 00:16:40, Place overall: 1, Place in age division: 1
Total Distance
13.50

A quirky little race. Featuring lots of girlscouts and people dressed as Cookies. If you beat the cookie you win a free hat. You also win a free box of girlscout cookies as a prize. And ALSO there are two races (2k and 5k) and they encouraged everyone to do both.

I had somewhat high hopes entering this race. I wanted a fast 2k and a meh 5k. The weather was kind of cold though and there was no way that I was going to run a fast 2k without a decent warmup. I was also a little thrown off because there was no Allie to challenge me. I did happen to see Lily in her first race post injury. It's defintely more fun than going to a race y yourself.

Anyway first up was the 2k and I was certainly not adequately warmed up. There were a lot of kids sprinting next to me for the first couple hundred meters or so. Then there was a 15 year old in spikes who followed me up until about 400. After that I started to open a bigger and bigger lead. I was 3:14 at the 180 degree turnaround and then did my best to fight my way through everyone coming the other way. I tried to make it hurt twoards the end and finished in 6:22 (which is about 5:07 pace). Didn't feel like I really accomplished anything other than tiring myself out for the 5k.

The 5k seemed to start almost immediately afterwards, except this time there were a lot more people. I started out much slower this time and had more people chasing me at the start. Mr Thin Mint pursued me until 500m in and then fell back. I was very quickly all by myself and suddenly lost focus. I reached the turnaround at 8:25 and realized I was going to have to close hard in order to break my prerace goal of 16:30. I pushed all the way back down but I had to weave in and out of people once again (really not too bad). In the last kilometer I bagan to regret my choice of racing shoes as my calves were very tired and I seemed to have no drive left in my legs.

Afterwards Allie and I went to the field house and she biked while I ran for an hour. Then we lifted/stood around chatting.

This little race gets a thumbs up from me.

Adizero Rocket Miles: 5.00Nimbus Miles: 8.50
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
Comments
From allie on Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 18:27:58 from 174.23.197.101

any race that gets a thumbs up from you is definitely a winner. you know how to pick them, that's for sure. nice job beating mr. thin mint.

james 14

allie 0

also, when you are lifting, you really shouldn't stand around and chat. it's inefficient.

From Rob Murphy on Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 21:27:03 from 24.10.248.6

I ran my first official race in 1977 when I was in 7th grade. It was a one mile cross country race. I remember I wore my baseball/football cleats. I figured that's what you wore when you competed in athletics right?

Ran 6:55 after running the first quarter in something like 62 seconds. Good times.

From Walter on Sun, May 01, 2011 at 12:36:21 from 24.2.66.36

A friend of mine puts this race on and I still havnt had it in my schedule to run it. Its fun and she does a great job putting it on. so are you having a cookie party at your place? I know your not eating those all by your self! Ill bring milk!

From Brent on Sun, May 01, 2011 at 22:13:25 from 66.7.127.67

Fiddy, 1,000 commando points for the win, only one box of cookies for the prize, you should have got your own thin mint giant sized cookie to eat or at least a girl scout hat. It is a quirky race, Di does a great job to raise money for the the girls, way to support the race.

Stay Kool, B of BS Rools out

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