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Outside the Ice Half Marathon

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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:

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Asics Hyperspeed Lifetime Miles:						369.13
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Adistar Rideb Lifetime Miles:						236.30
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RedFree Lifetime Miles:						405.55
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NimbusFIRE Lifetime Miles:						260.50
WhiteHyper2 Lifetime Miles:						100.20
WaveriderC Lifetime Miles:						203.95
NimbusVampire Lifetime Miles:						357.50
CelticMirage Lifetime Miles:						312.00
NeonFree Lifetime Miles:						17.80
Nimbus FireB Lifetime Miles:						2.50
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Sat, Feb 11, 2012

Race: Outside the Ice Half Marathon (13.1 Miles) 01:20:35, Place overall: 1, Place in age division: 1

Total Distance

13.70

I had planned on doing this race for about a month. Everytime I thought about, I thought "I'm probably going to regret this". Anyway, I told myself that I had a shot at my altitude PR yesterday and figured that I could get the Wasatch Running Center some good exposure.

I was never on pace for 1:16. After about 5k it became apparent that I was not going to run very fast (like no faster than 1:19). I just clicked off the laps as my left leg became gradually more and more sore. Again, my achilles was fine and my breathing was fine, but my quads were toast.

Anyway, I definitely slowed down by maybe 10-15 seconds a mile toward the end but I was happy with how I did.

Best Pace Guesses

1595m=5:51 (5:54)

3367m=12:20 (5:53/5:53)

4696m=17:15 (5:54/5:57)

6468m=23:54 (5:56/6:02)

8240m=30:37 (5:58/6:06)

9569m=35:44 (6:00/6:12)

11341m=42:34 (6:02/6:12)

13113m=49:21 (6:03/6:09)

Final 7974m in 31:14 (6:18 pace):Ran out of memory

I estimate that I could have (in the latter stages) been losing roughly 15-20 seconds a mile weaving around people. I think this could have cost me maybe as much as 3 minutes. It's actually difficult to say. Anyway, I'm glad that I tried this race, but my legs are really trashed now.

WhiteHyper2 Miles: 13.70

Night Sleep Time: 0.00	Nap Time: 0.00	Total Sleep Time: 0.00

Comments

From Andrea on Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 18:20:23 from 12.44.144.104

Nice race for running a sub-20 min 5k yesterday! :o)

From allie on Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 18:58:59 from 97.126.211.101

your meter marks are very precise. good job.

you forgot to mention that you lapped second place four times. you did great.

From Steve on Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 19:15:03 from 66.87.67.247

That's a crazy race. Id be dizzy.

From Rob Murphy on Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 19:44:01 from 76.27.122.13

I don't know quite what to say. My wife has some connections up at the U. Could maybe get you a cheap psych eval?

You're hard core as we used to say in the Army.

From Sasha Pachev on Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 20:11:27 from 67.222.225.187

There is a Russian kid song about a pony that runs in circles and counts laps. So I suppose today you were that pony.

From josse on Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 20:50:41 from 166.250.10.100

I think running a half on a track would be mentally tough and extremely boring so great job gettin er done.

From Fritz on Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 22:32:09 from 67.182.226.25

The field house training is finally paying dividends. Nice job getting through it and lapping everyone.

From Jake K on Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 20:07:15 from 72.201.142.201

All morning yesterday I just kept thinking - I wonder what James' split at 11,341 meters will be? :-)

Good run - the main thing is that the achilles held up, right?

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