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May 2011

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Location:

Orem,UT,USA

Member Since:

May 01, 2006

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

None to speak of. Used to race road bikes - racing as a Cat 3 middle-of-the-pack rider. Have been a social runner for 10+ years and have run over a twenty marathons including DesNews, Salt Lake City, St George, and Las Vegas. Neighborhood running group is very consistent and have spent many fun times and good miles with group.

Short-Term Running Goals:

Goal is to run under 3:20 hours for a marathon and in the process qualify for Boston. My qualifying time for Boston is 3:30

Personal:

Married, 5 kids. Have 3 soccer stars in family -- my two oldest girls and their little brother

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Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
63.000.003.500.002.5069.00
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7.000.000.000.000.007.00

Lindon Canal Road-Lindon City Center Park Loop

Ran a circuitous route with Paul and Brian Johnson.  

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2000 North Loop 

Ran the 2000 North Loop with Paul at an 8:25 min/mile pace. Could have gone faster, but probably not much.

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5.000.000.000.000.005.00

Early very tired run out to Cascade Golf Course and back. Paul continued on for an additional mile but I had to get back for a 7:30am meeting.

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16.000.000.000.000.0016.00

It was a beautiful Saturday morning...finally.  I met Wayne, Paul, Larry, and Larry's wife Jolene at the mouth of Provo Canyon for a long run.

Larry and Jolene stopped to turn back at Bridal Veil Falls. Paul, Wayne and I continued on. We had realized the Provo City Marathon was running down the trail this morning until we saw some of the mile markers. We didn't know what time they were starting or how many runners there would be. We got to Vivian Park and talked to some volunteers at the aid station there. The marathon was going to start in about 10-15 minutes at South Fork Park. We were planning on 14 miles and still had a little over a mile to go to get to 7, so we decided to risk it and head on up South Fork Canyon.

At mile 7 Wayne said he wanted to push on to 8 for a 16 mile run and Paul and I decided to join him. Not long after we saw the lead marathoners coming around a corner. We moved to the far side of the street and stayed pretty much out of the way. There weren't as many runners as we thought there might be and they passed by us pretty quickly. The race had just started so they hadn't spread out very much yet.

We continued on to the 8 mile mark, averaging about 9:42/mi for the 4.2 miles of uphill after Bridal Veil. 

I pushed ahead at about Bridal Veil and ran the next 3 miles about a minute per mile faster than Wayne and Paul. 

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6.000.000.000.000.006.00

6 miles 2000 North route with Paul, Larry and Jo.

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Mouth of Provo Canyon route and back with Paul and Wayne.

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Cut the run short to fill an assignment at the Lindon garden.

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2000 North Route with Paul.

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Paul had to get back to help clean the church at 8:00am so we started at the mouth of the canyon at about 5:45am and maintained a pretty steady pace throughout the 12 miles.

The splits up were: 8:42, 8:50, 9:06, 9:10, 8:48, 8:52

The splits down were: 8:22, 8:24, 8:03, 7:55, 8:08, 7:44

Average pace: 8:30/mi 

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