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Location:

SLC,UT,

Member Since:

Apr 28, 2011

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

PR Table and Notable Races

Marathon:
2:21:12 (Chicago); 2:20:41 (CIM)

Half Marathon: 1:05:45 (Long Beach)
10K: 30:03 (Portland)

All race results:
2011 - 2012 - 2013 - 2014 - 2015 - 2016

Personal:

   

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AM - 10 miles. All around Wrightsville Beach, NC... first 7 miles w/ Andrea (7!!!). I didn't tell her how far we'd gone until we were past 6.5 miles. Finished up and went for a long walk on the beach w/ my parents and sister.

PM - 4 miles w/ Andrea (beach bike).

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AM - 8 miles. Ran 4 miles around the UNC-Wilmington campus with my Dad and Andrea, then 5000m on the track in 15:07. Cooled down one mile.

Nice track and field complex. The effort felt pretty smooth despite 99.9% humidity in the air. Even pacing, with the 1600m splits all right around 4:50. We'll call this a "high-end" tempo run. My Mom shot some video during the workout so Andrea could critique my form afterwards. Another day in the life at the Krong Project :-)

Really enjoyed running with my Dad... he kicked our butts on the warmup!

PM - 3 miles w/ Andrea (bike).

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AM - OFF. Went fishing all morning on Captain Mike White's boat. Caught a (very small) shark and a bunch of other stuff. Somehow fishing made us super tired and I needed a two hour nap afterwards. Great fun.

PM - 9 miles. First 3.5 w/ Andrea.

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AM - 9 miles. Hot and humid run, most of it with Andrea. We found a little shade on a bike path, which was nice, but didn't last long enough. I did 2 x 1 mile efforts towards the end - 4:49, 4:38 (starting at 5.5 and 8 miles). 5K / 3K effort. Felt pretty good.

PM - 4 miles. The family is ready to kill each other and I wasn't planning to run again but I need to get out of here shakeout run. A family vacation tradition! :-)

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AM - 5 miles with my parents, very easy. Then we went for a long beach walk and swim in the ocean. Slightly overcast today, which is my favorite kind of beach weather.

PM - 3 miles. 

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AM - 5 miles with 1/2 mi LT effort (2:22, tailwind) + some strides.

Put up some pics from North Carolina, including the tiny shark.

TOU 1/2 tomorrow!


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Race: Top of Utah Half Marathon (13.1 Miles) 01:05:39, Place overall: 2
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I had one goal today - cross the finish line first. So while I fell short of that (by a landslide), it wasn't due to a poor performance on my part... major tip of the cap to Riley, who ran a fantastic race (1:05:16, narrowly missing the course record). In my opinion, the most impressive race anyone in Utah (not just FRB) has run this year. 

The field was pretty stacked (normal for this race now). The primary competition was Riley, Bryant, and Jon Coyle. I told myself I wasn't going to take the lead in the canyon, but the pace was slow in the first quarter mile and I felt uncomfortable running so close to everyone, so I took off - just over a minute into the race and put a small gap on everyone. It wasn't exactly a break for the tape, just an effort to string it out a little, and footsteps started to slowly come back to me. I led the first three miles and then Riley evened up to me and took the lead shortly after that. No one else was there, and I felt like we had a pretty good gap on everyone else. The run down the canyon for the first seven miles was the same as always - focus on running good tangents, feel that small headwind just after 5 miles, which turns into a tailwind a quarter mile later, etc. We were moving pretty quick (29:21 at 6 miles).

On Hollow Road (after 7 miles) we were still pretty close. I think it was somewhere around 8-9 miles where I just started to feel a little tired, and Riley put a gap on me after 9 miles (2011 deja vu, swapping Riley in for Paul). Once we got to the Millville hill I was probably a good 10+ seconds back and didn't feel like I had a chance to rally and win. I started doing the math in my head to figure out what I would need to run to break my best time on the course (never a good sign when you resort to that!)... and ended up losing a lot of time on mile 12 - his lead doubled from what I could tell. Finished just fast enough to beat my 2011 time by 1 second (1:05:39, full splits below). When I said I wanted to beat these times this fall, I didn't mean by only a second each, but its still better than not beating them at all. 

Full Results. Four guys under 1:07, which I don't think has ever happened before. Says a lot about how deep and competitive this race is getting. I love it.

I'm happy with the fact that this is my fastest time on the course, but I'm never going to be completely satisfied with a second place finish. Keeps the fire burning...

If I had run low 1:05s today, I'd be looking to get in a flat half pretty soon to take a crack at the OT standard. I'm in the ballpark, but not quite in striking distance yet... moving in that direction, though. I feel like I've been making consistent progress all summer, and just need to keep plugging away. First things first - a short break from anything intense (~10 days with no faster running, just low intensity... and high altitude). Then I'll get going again with some races the weekend after Labor Day. Keeping my options open for the fall... Oct/Nov seems like the right time to attack the half-marathon again. My speed has improved, but I need to some re-incorporate some of the longer tempo runs so I can put the whole package together for 13.1 miles.

Splits from the last 3 years. Probably a little too quick down the canyon. Oh well, that's racing.

Picture from the Herald-Journal. I'm back to bald (sorry Andrea).

The new logo is awesome. They also upped the prize money without announcing it. This race is always full of fun surprises.

AM - 19 miles (2 up w/ Sasha, Race, 4 down w/ Allie, James, Scott, and Devra).  

PM - 4 miles in Green River, UT.

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