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Provo City Half Marathon

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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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Race: Provo City Half Marathon (13.109 Miles) 01:19:19, Place overall: 19, Place in age division: 2
Total Distance
19.60

Actually suprised I ran as well as I did. I didn't think sub 1:20 was even possible until I was 200meters from the finish line.

I felt really bad before the race, again. It's getting pretty frustrating. Protip: I ran a 3.5 mile warmup going to Vivian Park which had a nice indoor bathroom with zero line. I still felt lousy despite this. I didn't poop in a watershed area, never poop in a watershed area, people!

As usual I started out way too fast. I should not have been sub 6 for the first mile. Unfortunately, I didn't start my watch until the first mile mark so I had no idea how quick that mile was (5:39 aparently) until the end. In general the mile markers were all over the place, some short, some long, so I really have no idea.

Second mile is a really steep downhill (5:36). As soon as we got out of South Fork I dropped back from the guys that I was running with and started to slow down. I was honestly feeling pretty negative at this point. My leg felt good, but m stomach was bad, I was breathing really hard and my legs felt beat up already. I was in my own little world of self pity and yet I managed to yoyo off the back of the group I was with. The next three miles were 6:06,6:07,5:41 (long, long, short). I would surge ahead, get a gap, lose it, get dropped myself, then recover and repeat. I did this over and over again. Mile 6 was 5:58 and was a legitimately good mile. I caught up to Bryce Peterson and ran next to him briefly.

After that I completely went in the tank and my pace dropped about 15 seconds a mile. Bryce dropped me again and another guy in white passed me. 6:06,6:15 for the last two miles in the canyon. I got passed again right at the lousiest point of the course, where you leave the bike path and now have to contemplate the giant straight road. Just 5800 block to go, I thought, somehow not comforted at all. 6:36 for mile 9 (this one was long). I reached the nine mile mark in about 54:05, which was over a minute slower than last year. although I didn't know this at the time as I hadn't started my watch, I had a pretty strong inkling this was the case.

In the tenth mile, someone ahead of me jumped into the bathroom. I was tempted to do the same, but I knew that it really wouldn't help. I got passed again by another guy and then Spencer Simpson drove by and told me to stay right on him, he immediately dropped me. Spencer, I failed. 6:27 for mile 10, 6 seconds slower than last year. Finally crested the slight hill at mile 11 and started to feel better. 6:25 for that mile 3 seconds faster than last year! I realize that I've stopped cratering and find another gear. I'm also now realizing that I can at least run 1:20:xx, which isn't a total disaster.

I catch back to one of the guys who had dropped me earlier and surge by as hard as I can 6:28 for that mile, but it's long. I only managed 6:50 last year. Let's all take a moment to thank 2013 James, who can alway make me look good by comparison.

One more person comes up behind me in the last mile, and stays right on my tail, all the way to the finish. This helps me push it in all the way to the finish, otherwise I might have coasted. From mile 12 to 13.1 is 5:50 (waaay short, to make up for all the long from earlier) but it's 50! seconds faster than last year for the same stretch, classic 2013 James. Ended up with a 1:19:19 coming in right ahead of Jen Hughes (great run for her) who had pushed me all the way to the line. Almost cried and vomited at the end of this one, but they sort of canceled each other out.

3 mile cooldown. Ogden wooo!

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