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Law Day 10k run

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Location:

South Jordan,UT,USA

Member Since:

Sep 01, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

Started running in 2001.  Have completed over 100 marathons and ultras since then. 

Marathon PR 2:56:04 (2005 St. George)

New PR 2:53:24 (2008 Tucson)

Finished 2nd Overall in 2005 Utah Grand Slam to Paul Peterson.  He beat me by 30 min in every race.

1/2 Marathon PR 1:23:56 (2008 Just Cuz Half Marathon)

Completed the Utah Grand Slam 10 consecutive years (2003-2012).  I don't know if anyone else has done that.

Short-Term Running Goals:

2024 Goals:

Be consistent in my Riding.

Drop a few lbs.

Long-Term Running Goals:

I have long-term biking goals.  Running is completely out of the question with the Meniscus in my knee.

Personal:

I'm in the 55-59 Age Group.....Yikes!

I have been married for over 39 years.  We have 3 children and 7 grandchildren.

 "Only those who risk going to far can possibly find out how far they can go"  T.S. Eliot

"Putting miles in your training log (blog) is like putting money in the bank.  You begin to draw interest on it immediately."  Hal Higdon

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Race: Law Day 10k run (6.2 Miles) 00:38:53, Place overall: 4, Place in age division: 3
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
8.376.2014.57

It started as a nice weather day today.....it did not stay that way.  It was 40 degrees with almost no breeze when I left the house.  I ran to Barry Smith's house and we ran together to the start of the 10K.  I ran 4.10 miles to the start averaging around 7:30/mile, just nice and easy.  

The weather for the 10K was perfect.  We started at 8:00am.  They changed the course this year so it is actually a true 10K.  In past years it has been short (like 5.88).  The problem was the 10K runners started with a loop around Raymond Park and the 5K runners/walkers went directly South.  So, as you may have guessed, before we hit the first mile marker we were running through a sea of 5K walkers, strollers, little kids on bikes, you name it.  The 5K and 10K courses were together from mile .3 until mile 3 for the 10Kers.  

Barry and I ran together to pace each other today as a speed workout to prepare for Ogden in 2 weeks.  Barry's only goal today was to beat me.  We were about 1 minute behind the leaders at mile 3 when we had some uphills and winding trails so our pace slowed a bit.  When we got to the top of our climb and flattened-out I was worried that we would not break 40 minutes as we were behind schedule.  During mile 5 Barry pushed the pace and actually made a move to try and gap me with 1.5 miles left to go.  I hung on and stayed about 10 feet behind him as we pushed on.  I caught him at 5.7 and we were both pushing pretty good.  I asked him if we were running in together and he gave me that "I'm going to beat you" look.  We saw the finish line with .2 to go and we both just went all-out.  We sprinted (well, as fast as 2 guys in their mid-40's can sprint) to the finish and we both crossed at the exact same time.  Our pace the last .2 miles was 4:23!!!  His foot with the timing chip must have been his front foot and mine must have been my back foot because the official results had him 2/100's of a second ahead of me.  So he got his goal and beat me......NICE JOB!!!  It was a PR for both of us.

Here are the splits:

1.  6:13

2.  6:19

3.  6:45 (some uphill)

4.  6:47 (more hills)

5.  6:19

6.  6:10

.2  4:23

So he finished 3rd overall and I was 4th.  The 1st overall was in our age group and the 2nd overall was in the 50's age group so today OLD GUYS RULE!!!

I had about 35 minutes until the awards so I went for a cool-down run of 4.27 miles in a 7:28 average.  It was during this time that it started to rain and I got pretty wet.  During the awards I stood under the park shelter with everyone else but got a pretty good chill.  My plan was to run home after the awards but it started raining really hard and I was not dressed for it so I caught a ride home.  I try to do another 8 or so tonight if the weather clears up.

Mizuno Elixer 3 Miles: 14.57
Comments
From jtshad on Sat, May 02, 2009 at 13:55:24 from 69.20.133.145

Nice run and great job on the PR!

From Burt on Sat, May 02, 2009 at 14:12:37 from 98.167.151.26

Way to go old men!

From rockness18 on Sat, May 02, 2009 at 19:20:45 from 75.9.135.162

Sweet!

From wheakory on Sun, May 03, 2009 at 11:56:38 from 24.116.159.75

Get job Bill. I posted from my cell phone in Rexburg but it must have not been received currently. I would have ran Law Day but I had to be in Rexburg for my Daughters soccer game. That's why you seen me headed the other way back home.

Very nice kick at the end to finish the race Bill, and nice we in running as always.

From Barry on Sun, May 03, 2009 at 14:49:56 from 208.98.172.42

Great job on your race and that is awesome on getting a PR for this race! I see you breaking lots of PR this year :).

From RivertonPaul on Mon, May 04, 2009 at 10:59:45 from 67.42.27.114

Nice job.

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