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Nice workout! Wishing you the best for a performance that is up to Jake standards on Sat.

You just had to go and top my workout from yesterday by adding those 4 x 100's. Sheesh! Overachiever! Good luck this weekend!

Thanks Scott. I think I have a pretty decent idea of where I'm at... I know I can't run as fast as I *wanted* to by this point, but I'm feeling a lot better than a couple weeks ago. Hopefully this will be a good summer season opener.

I don't think we'll be dealing w/ last year's headwind, so that's nice right off the bat.

Emily - I did steal your workout... originally I was going to do 2 x 1 mile and then some 200s, but I liked your version better. I always figure that if Andrea and I are going to steal ideas from anyone, its you and Teren :-)

You look ready to roll to me! I think you'll do better than you think, especially with some 1:02-PR guys in the field to pull you.

1:02? Is Alberto letting the Oregon Project guys run? They would probably have the pave the road w/ a mondo surface first. I'd be OK w/ that!

No the two 1:02-PR guys are Patrick Smyth and Josh Rohatinsky. At least I think they've both run 1:02:xx. I can't claim that research as my own, Trevor Baker alerted me to their registrations. I doubt either is in 1:02 shape right now, but I'll bet they can roll 1:04-1:05 no problem on UV's course.

Yeah they probably aren't in PR shape... if so, they'd be cracking 60 on this course. I think Pat is semi-retired anyways. Out of my league for this weekend. I might be able to pull a rabbit out the hat at some point soon, but I'd rather surprise myself in Duluth where it counts. I don't have enough fast miles under my legs over the past month or so to handle 2 all-out races in 2 weeks.

I don't think Josh is racing--I've heard through the grapevine that he is pacing his wife. Pat, on the other hand, will probably be ready for a good race.

Oh and btw, Josh ran a 61 in New York at his peak. Not too shabby!

16.09...you disgust me with your inconsistency

Oh wow, I thought his PR was 62 minutes. 61 is simply on another planet (so is 62 but you know what I mean)!

1:01:55 according to all-athletics

That's the great thing about the HM / Marathon, you can truncate those seconds. Also important to KICK when you are close to that minute mark! It's funny, I view my 1:05:55 as a much better performance than my 1:06:02, despite them being essentially equal.

Yeah, Josh didn't tell me about the 55 seconds when I ran into him after the Provo City Half marathon. He was there cheering on his wife. He ran with Mike Nelson growing up. I was with Mike after the race when we ran into Josh.

He simply referred to his half time as 61--I'd claim that too :-)

If I ran 1:01:59.9, I'd call it sixty one, no doubt :-)

I'm the kind of runner freak where in his spare time looks at NCAA, pro and road race results. So of course I spent like 30 mins going through every name I could think of on the "verify registration" link. I think Josh is just running with his wife as they are both registered, Smyth is now the coach at westminster and is semi retired, that said, he's prob just having a good 500-700 dolla weekend ya know. Anyways, that's how I know they're all registered, along with 1/2 the bloggers. Who knows, maybe Mo, Galen, Dathan, and Cam will come do their easy run and trash us all as they are between PC, provo and SLC these days.

ps Jake... That's a pretty solid ladder! You're ready to go.

I've love to have Salazar's guys whoop our butts tomorrow.

Trevor, I've been known to look at who's registered for races before myself...so no worries. Two years ago I almost always looked it up, because I was always right on the line of making the podium or just missing it (I think I had like 4-5 4th place finishes that year). So I liked knowing if I thought I had a chance.

Pretty sure Josh is retired as well. Saw him a few weeks ago, and didn't get the vibe he had picked the spikes (err...trainers) back up. I could be wrong, but highly doubt he is anywhere close to top form.

Letsrun's boards would explode with hatrid if that group ran a downhill half-marathon. Alberto can't take that risk :-)