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Provo Half Marathon

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Location:

Logan,UT,USA

Member Since:

Dec 15, 2009

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

PRs after age 40:

 

5k     15:15  Running of the Leopards.

8k      22:21  Alta Death Dash

10k   33:02    Des News

Half Marathon      1:10  Timp Half

Marathon        2:32    Ogden

First solo R2R2R Bass Trails Grand Canyon 

First R2R2R Grand Canyon Toroweap Overlook

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

Not be fat all year

Long-Term Running Goals:

Smell the dirt, feel the mountain, taste the wind.

Personal:

 

"Our legs are tight, our feet are flying, and we are gliding over the roll of the land. The sun is up, the air is fresh, the stone is old, and we are free and at peace. The clock has stopped because another time has taken over." C. Bowden

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Race: Provo Half Marathon (13.11 Miles) 01:15:57, Place overall: 9, Place in age division: 1
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
2.0013.110.000.0015.11

Just happy to have survived this one.  I promised my kids and the neighbors that I'd take them camping, and I really wanted to run this Half with a friend.  The kids and I did our bonfire on the beach until midnight and I finally got them asleep in the RV and drove back home so my neighbor could take over.  By that time it was 2:30 am and just enough time to hop in the car and drive down to Provo to meet my friend.  It was her first Half so she was pretty nervous.  

At the start she went for what looked like a 40 minute line for porta pottys and I went for a warm up.  I found James and we ran together for a bit which was cool since I haven't had a chance to talk to him for a long time.  The start was as smashed as I've seen in a while.  I couldn't find a place to stand so I squished in about 3 deep back just ahead of the "fast women".  I asked them kindly to please not run over me at the start.  One told me to get behind them then, where I belong.  :-)  Yes, she was serious.

I felt a 5:45 pace would be a good goal and just focused on running that.  I wasn't paying attention and did two 6:10 miles when the course leveled out.  I had to pick it up for the last two to make some of that up.  Great course, not as fast as Timp.  

Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00Calories: 0.00
Comments
From Marlin on Sat, May 04, 2013 at 10:32:24 from 174.27.112.74

Nice job Steve as always! That was to funny what the fast girls said to you. LOL I don't know how you pulled that late night and early race off

From Rob Murphy on Sat, May 04, 2013 at 12:53:26 from 24.10.249.165

Nice job. You just vaulted almost three minutes ahead of my PR for the year.

No mention of any knee pain?

From Steve on Sat, May 04, 2013 at 16:13:29 from 66.87.65.124

Yeah I'm just tired of being such a whiner about it. It's going to limit mileage to about 70. But that might be a good thing. I'm also surprised that no sleep at all had no effect on how the race felt.

From steve ash on Sat, May 04, 2013 at 18:25:54 from 174.52.100.252

Sleep or not you had a great time and a great weekend outing. Way to live life.

From RileyCook on Sat, May 04, 2013 at 20:11:27 from 65.130.68.80

Nice job Steve. It looks like your fitness is coming around with each race. Are you running Ogden?

From allie on Sun, May 05, 2013 at 01:39:05 from 97.126.221.226

impressive race after no sleep! nice job, steve.

From Steve on Sun, May 05, 2013 at 10:15:49 from 66.87.112.202

Thanks guys. Riley, I'm slowly getting it back. I don't think I'll be ready for Ogden but I may do it for a long run for UVM. I was talking to Brett yesterday for a little while after the race just asking him what kind of training all you guys have been doing. He was telling me about some of the "Ogden guys" training and it was pretty neat. You guys have some good ideas right now.

From scottkeate on Sun, May 05, 2013 at 15:23:29 from 71.199.4.146

Nice job, Steve. I almost made a move early in the race to catch up to say "hi," but I felt too lazy. We nearly started the race without you. BTW - I liked the boxer shorts you were wearing--very vogue!

From Superfly on Mon, May 06, 2013 at 10:15:05 from 74.211.21.81

Good job on the race and even better with the camping:) Lucky kids!

From RileyCook on Mon, May 06, 2013 at 10:19:44 from 132.3.45.81

Well you're welcome to come down and run with us "Ogden guys" anytime you like Steve.

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