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Mapleton 5k

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Location:

Mapleton,UT,USA

Member Since:

Aug 22, 2012

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

1:08:17 Drop 13 Half 2015

2:41:14 St George Marathon 2012

17:28 5k Rex Lee 2015 (but sub 16 inside some of my halves, downhill doesn't count)

Short-Term Running Goals:

2013 Races

2014 Races

2015 Races!

1/3 Snowman Half - 1:23:14 1st

Total Domination

3/7 Rex Lee Cancer 5k - 16:53 7th (5k PR)

Masters Domination

3/21 Running of the Leopards - 16:48 13th

AG Domination

4/11 Timp Shadow - 21:28 5th (1k PR)

Masters Domination

4/18 Salt Lake Half Marathon - 1:20:56 18th

AG Domination

5/2 Provo City Half Marathon - 1:16:12 4th

Masters Domination

5/9 - Dino Half - 1:15:20 1st (CR)

Course Domination

5/30 Timp Trail Half - 1:50 1st

Total Domination

6/6 Art City 5K - 17:20 13th

AG Domination

6/13 Drop 13 - 1:08:17 (PR) (CR)

Course Domination

Long-Term Running Goals:

17:00 5k

1:08 downhill half [done]

34:30 10k

Never get old

Personal:

Married, three kids, have a problem with going out too fast in races but it's too fun to quit

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Race: Mapleton 5k (3.107 Miles) 00:17:34, Place overall: 1, Place in age division: 1
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
2.000.000.003.105.10

Woohoo! I finally won this blasted race. Ten years of getting edged to second or third but not today. The first mile I felt like I was running through molasses but I didn't dare push it any harder in case somebody was planning a move on the back side. Turned out I just felt slow, but I wasn't really - came through in 5:23. The first mile is a loop around the low part of the course back past the start line, but the second mile is a steady uphill with a nasty into the wind three blocks, so it was a very respectable 5:57. By the beginning of the second mile I couldn't hear anybody behind but as I made the turn into the wind tunnel I could see the second place guy only 200 feet back so still a danger. But the tunnel nuked him and I didn't even really feel it! Usually I get knocked back to 7 but today nothing slower than 6:20. The third mile is a crosswind slight downhill and that was good for a 5:45. Then I made the turn into the finish area, .15 to go downhill and downwind which I ran at a 4:23 pace because it looked like I was going to grab a 5K PR. Missed it by 2 seconds, but it's a course PR 17:34 and the real PR was extrapolated from an actual finish so this is really my strongest performance ever. They finally made this race an actual exact 5k too so that was nice.

Comments
From TBean on Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 07:08:43 from 63.241.173.64

Great job on the win.

From Dave Taylor on Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 08:27:33 from 50.198.183.21

Thanks! I am still jazzed about it.

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