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Ogden Marathon 2010

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Local Elite

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52 marathons, Overall winner 15 times, PR 2:20:25 at St. George 2013, Kona Ironman 2002, Zero DNF

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I like running in the rain.

 

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Nike Span +8 Miles: 5.00
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Race: Ogden Marathon 2010 (26.2 Miles) 02:29:20, Place overall: 1, Place in age division: 1
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.0026.200.000.000.0026.20

I went into this race with the goal of breaking 2:30.  I barely pulled it off, although it took more effort than I would have liked.  At the start line I only recognized BJ (not easy to miss) and Steve Anderson and a couple minutes before the race Jeff (jtshad) introduced himself to me. Except for them I really had no idea what other competition would show up.  The race got off on time and I soon found myself trailing only BJ, who got off to a blazing, sub 5 minute start.  I have no idea how he ran so fast, considering that he did a sub 10 hour Ironman two weeks ago. Compared to last year I was doing well through the first few miles but I still felt that those mid 5 min miles were taking too much effort.  I backed off slightly at around mile 5 because nobody was around me and I knew I needed to conserve more if I was ever going to hang on at the end.  After I got out the canyon I started to got into a decent rhythm and by mile 10 I passed BJ's relay partner.  Now I was all alone in front and solely responsible for blocking at least 20 cars who were stuck behind the pace car.  I got through the half way point in about 1:13, about 1 minute faster than I had expected.  I was feeling fairly relaxed at that point so it seemed very realistic that I could run a sub 1:17 second half and get under 2:30.  My optimism lasted until I had to climb that hill at mile 14.5.   I tried to hold back but  I still think I ended up pushing too hard because my legs never felt the same.  A relay runner caught me at the dam, fortunately he was only a relay runner.  After the dam is where I was planning to put in some fast miles to make up to foreseeable breakdown at mile 23.  I managed close to 5:40s from 18-23 which basically left me having to run around 6s to get sub 2:30.  Somewhere in there I passed Allie at an aid station.  Thanks for the cheer and I apologize for not taking your water or giving a high five.  It was one of those, "oh sh**, I have five miles left" moments.  Fortunately I survived those last 3 miles which included a few tunnels, dodging and weaving through runners, and 2 foot rollers that felt like hill sprints.  

Overall I felt good about the race and I was especially happy that I didn't finish in 2:30:01.  My Garmin was obviously on the fritz during the first few miles.  I promise I didn't run a 5:57 first mile. 

Time Distance Split time 2009 Elev. chg.
0:05:57 1 5:57 5:14 -90
0:11:11 2 5:14 5:45 1
0:17:06 3 5:55 5:40 -139
0:22:24 4 5:17 5:40 -56
0:27:51 5 5:26 5:39 -79
0:33:17 6 5:26 5:39 -45
0:38:40 7 5:22 5:44 -81
0:44:07 8 5:26 5:52 -31
0:49:48 9 5:41 5:59 17
0:55:26 10 5:38 5:58 6
1:01:12 11 5:46 6:12 -7
1:06:52 12 5:39 6:04 -18
1:12:38 13 5:46 6:07 32
1:18:19 14 5:41 6:01 -42
1:24:27 15 6:07 6:23 51
1:30:10 16 5:43 6:03 0
1:35:56 17 5:45 6:09 2
1:41:28 18 5:31 5:57 -115
1:47:12 19 5:44 5:54 -69
1:52:59 20 5:46 6:04 -36
1:58:45 21 5:46 6:05 -117
2:04:26 22 5:40 6:04 -94
2:10:08 23 5:41 5:56 -161
2:16:09 24 6:01 6:14 -41
2:22:19 25 6:09 6:19 -33
2:28:20 26 6:01 6:16 -11
2:29:34 0.2 1:13 2:39 7
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
17.9629.300.000.001.0048.26
Elliptical Miles: 1.00Nike Span +8 Miles: 12.00Nike LunaRacer +2 Miles: 26.20
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