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Location:

Salt Lake City,UT,

Member Since:

May 22, 2012

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Age Division Winner

Running Accomplishments:

5k - 16:40 (2014 SLCTC Winter Series)

Half - 1:15:26 (2014 Canyonlands)

Full - 2:34:17 (2014 Boston)

Long-Term Running Goals:

Stay in shape

Personal:

Married with sons ages 8 and 4

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New Balance MR 1400 (2) Lifetime Miles: 469.02
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Saucony Ride 5 Lifetime Miles: 270.14
UA Cold Gear Rubber Lifetime Miles: 398.72
Kinvara 5 Test Lifetime Miles: 537.10
Asics Hyper Speed 6 Lifetime Miles: 128.90
Kinvara 5 (May 2014) Lifetime Miles: 464.01
Altra Loan Peak 1.5 (free) Lifetime Miles: 109.83
New Balance RC 1400 Lifetime Miles: 414.63
Brooks PureFlow 4 (June 15) Lifetime Miles: 380.33
PT Lifetime Miles: 14.00
Brooks Launch 7 (9-15) Lifetime Miles: 234.59
Treadmill 2016 Lifetime Miles: 38.39
Brooks Cascadia May 2015 Lifetime Miles: 120.74
Treadmill 2017 Lifetime Miles: 3.10
Race: Striders 5k (3.107 Miles) 00:19:01, Place overall: 6, Place in age division: 1
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.400.003.110.009.51

Cold morning. Low 20s I think. We stayed at my wife's parents in West Weber. We got home after midnight after watching Silver Linings Playbook (meh) and my 1 yr old was sleepless so it was a tough night.

I warmed up by running the course. My Garmin didn't charge so I had to use my iPhone to time the race and thus I was forced to run by feel (which inevitably leads me to not push myself). Splits were 6:15 with a net 80 ft climb, 6:33 with a net 50 ft climb (170 up, 120 down), 5:46 with a net 120 ft drop and 27 seconds to finish. My phone showed it to be 3.08 and the total climb is about 325. Then another 3.3 to cool.

I wanted to run a faster final mile, closer to the 5:20 I did yesterday, but it was a tough cold race and its hard to know exactly what to expect I suppose. 

Saucony Kinvara 3 2E 9.5 (Nov '12) Miles: 6.41Altra Instinct 1.5 Miles: 3.10
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Mattrow on Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 11:51:51 from 75.162.207.184

Nice race. That time on that course and the conditions is pretty good. Pushing the last mile was pretty hard do some of the slick spots.

From jerekson on Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 12:56:22 from 174.27.171.48

Thanks Matt. There were some slick spots that were pretty scary to traverse.

From Jon on Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 18:44:12 from 107.203.52.135

You definitely won't set any PR's, but doing the Striders series will sure get you in good shape. Nice work.

From jerekson on Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 20:12:13 from 65.130.201.198

You're right about that, Jon. I ran the 10 miler last year and had no idea what I was getting myself into. I hurt for four days after that, but that's progress. I can already feel some achiness in my quads tonight, so I know they got a good workout.

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