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Sawtelle Stampede Half Marathon

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Salt Lake City,UT,United States

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Sep 14, 2008

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Male

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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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Race: Sawtelle Stampede Half Marathon (13.1 Miles) 01:21:30, Place overall: 5, Place in age division: 1
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.0013.100.000.000.0016.10

Annual Sawtelle Stampede near Island Park, Idaho. This is typically a fairly casual race but a few fast guys and Jake were there this year which made it more competitive on a per runner basis than almost any race around. Warmed up with Jake then ran the 1k with my nephew. The 6 min pace (per 1k) was a solid performance and he also did a great job not getting trampled or falling in the mud puddles.

Half Marathon started at 9:30 after the National Anthem and kid's race. I went out with the fast guys but fell off after about 3 miles because the sub 6 pace at 7000 ft on rolling hills wasn't sustainable for 10 more miles.  Jake and two others had about 1 minute on me at the turnaround  and that turned into about 6 mins by the end. Another guy passed me at about mile 7 which put me in 5th for the race. I wish I could have seen the finish because Jake and a high schooler got into a dead sprint at the end and both finished in a crazy fast time of about 1:14:50 and definitely a CR.  Probably a finish Jake wasn't expecting. I will let Jake talk about the stroller issue at the end.  Amiee and Andrea also ran well in the 5k and were great photographers.

All in all a good effort, with good friends and a great event.

Nike Free 5.0 Miles: 16.00
Comments
From Matt Poulsen on Sun, Jul 07, 2013 at 17:36:43 from 98.202.242.213

Nice work, Fritz!

From Josh E on Sun, Jul 07, 2013 at 21:10:10 from 75.169.31.22

Sounds like a good time and you didn't mention the knee once. Are you doing any of the DesNews races?

From Jake K on Sun, Jul 07, 2013 at 21:23:31 from 67.177.11.154

Really fun day. Glad I could be a part of it.

Its great to see you getting back to running normally again.

From Fritz on Sun, Jul 07, 2013 at 21:31:53 from 67.177.4.64

Thanks guys. It's great to have this knee issue behind me (fingers crossed). Now I just need to get back into running/racing shape.

Josh, I am leaning towards the half although I hate to support that trendy distance. Are you running one of the events?

From Josh E on Sun, Jul 07, 2013 at 21:36:12 from 75.169.31.22

I wanted to do the 10k, but I am doing the Timp Half on the 27th so I will have to skip. I am told that it is tough on the legs for a Quarter Marathon (Rob's name to make the 10k popular again).

That will be a very fast half.

From jtshad on Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 13:50:30 from 141.221.191.225

Welcome back and good to see you out running. I almost came up to this race, it would have been good to see all you!

From Rachelle on Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 11:47:16 from 159.212.71.17

It is great to see you running healthy again Fritz! Nice job.

From RileyCook on Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 16:16:13 from 132.3.57.78

Nice job Fritz. Good to see you out racing again. 3-4 more weeks of training and you'll be smoking us all again!

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