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UHSTCA Ourtoor Meet

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Salt Lake City,Ut,US

Member Since:

Jun 16, 2010

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Age Division Winner

Short-Term Running Goals:

Training for the SLC marathon. 

Long-Term Running Goals:

Stay healthy and keep running with my puppy.

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Runner and Dinosaur Lover

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Red ASICS Lifetime Miles: 511.75
NIKE Spikes Lifetime Miles: 16.60
Blue Mizuno Lifetime Miles: 775.25
Adidas Spikes Lifetime Miles: 74.23
Orange Mizuno Wave Nexus 5 Lifetime Miles: 430.55
Black Nike Free Run+ 2 Racing Flats Lifetime Miles: 655.22
Barefoot Lifetime Miles: 122.00
Neon Orange Spikes Lifetime Miles: 33.86
Neon Green Nike Zoom Structure+ 15 Lifetime Miles: 497.75
Blue Saucony Trainers Lifetime Miles: 177.90
Red Saucony Kinvara 2 Lifetime Miles: 135.00
Saucony Kinvara 3 Lifetime Miles: 558.10
Orange Brooks Lifetime Miles: 231.45
Red Saucony Kinvara 3 Lifetime Miles: 275.51
NEON Green Nike Flywire Lifetime Miles: 142.50
Blue Saucony Kinvara 4 Lifetime Miles: 70.26
NEON Green ASICS Gel Lifetime Miles: 18.25
Saucony Kinvara 6 Lifetime Miles: 36.25
Yellow Brooks Lifetime Miles: 16.00
Kinvara 7 Lifetime Miles: 232.80
Orange Kinvara 7 Lifetime Miles: 223.30
Kinvara 11 Lifetime Miles: 457.90
Race: UHSTCA Ourtoor Meet (1 Miles) 00:05:47, Place overall: 97, Place in age division: 10
Total Distance
4.50

Today when arriving at the race, checking in and getting seeded; I was in heat 6 with Dakota and Caden. I was seeded 4th overall. So I did about a mile warm up with Caden, ran over to the bathroom and then did a mile of speed changes with Caden on the street. We still had 2 heats till they called us so I did strides and drills, then I grabbed my spikes and went to the starting line to do more strides. We all lined up, the gun went off and we had a false start. We line up again and Caden stepped over the line so we had to restart. So we lined up for a third time we we were off.

I got out pretty good, I got out in fourth place which is where I needed to be at that time. So we go through the 400 at 74 which is good because I was aiming for a 5:15. So after the curve Dakota was about 5 meters ahead of me so Caden goes and passses me and gets up to Dakota so I tried to match him but I couldn't. We went through the 800 at 2:40 so if I was going to get my goal I would need to negative split. So anywase I decide to push the third lap; or what I thought was pushing it but in fact I got slower! My 1200 was 4:17 or 4:18, somewhere around there. Im going along the far end of the straightaway and letting the wind push me and I was gaining some ground on Dakota and Caden, not enough to catch them but some. But at the 200 from there on it was all against the wind. I pushed my hardest against that STUPID wind to get through it but about 3 or 4 guys passed me in the final kick which has never happened before because I usually have a good kick.

I don't know what happened today, usually when someone passes me to the extent that Caden did, I try to match them so they don't get to far ahead of me. I didn't do that today. But I am not making excuses even though the wind was horrible today along the stretch to the finish line. Today was not my day at all, I went into this race totally expecting to PR so instead I ran 20 seconds slower than I did last year at this meet. I am getting slower and I don't know why!

Then Caden and I went on a mile and a half cooldown; well it was 15 minutes so were assuming it was a mile and a half. When we were done with the horrible cooldown and STUPID RACE! We went to Iceberg and pigged out! Then we got totally sunburned and fried!! Like its sad how burned we are. Other than the total negative race I had, today was a good day.............. 

Neon Orange Spikes Miles: 1.00Neon Green Nike Zoom Structure+ 15 Miles: 3.50
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