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Hale Freezes Over 10k

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Location:

Lehi,UT,USA

Member Since:

May 26, 2009

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

Mt. Nebo Half 2011 - 1st Overall 1:10:17

St. George Marathon 2011 - 38th overall - 2:47:25

Speedy Spaniard 10k 2011 - 6th Overall - 35:55 6.1

Hale Freezes Over 10k 2011 - 3rd Overall - 35:56 5.97

St. George Marathon 2010 2:56:35

Hobble Creek Half 2010 4th in age 1:21:19

Highway to Hale 2010 3rd overall 37:25

5k in Lindon 2010 17:16

Utah Valley Marathon 2010, 3:01:26

Lehi 5k, 18:24

Timpanogos Half Marathon, 2010 1:54:29

Speedy Spaniard 10k (2009) 40:15

Hale Freezes Over 10k (2010) 40:16

Freedom 10k (2009) 41:34

Provo River Half (2009) 1:30:59

Symantec (Lindon) 5k (2009) 19:16

Short-Term Running Goals:

Sub 17: 5k, sub 36 10k, sub 1:15 half, sub 2:40 full

Long-Term Running Goals:

Run a lot, stay healthy

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Sat, Jan 29, 2011

Race: Hale Freezes Over 10k (6 Miles) 00:35:52, Place overall: 3

Slow miles	Fast miles	Total Distance
0.00	6.00	6.00

I ran the Hale Center Theater, Hale Freezes over 10k, again for the 3rd time. Ran it last January, in October and today. I like this race. It has gotten much larger very quickly.

After my 2 20 milers last weekend, I decided to not run very many miles this week to try to recover for the race today. I have been fighting my right leg not working on and off all week, and got it working enough for the race today.

The moved the start of the race to a side street, I think to make room for all the people at the start, this also shortened the course by about .1 from the previous 2 times I have run it. Map my run still shows this course to be 6.2 miles though, so I guess running the tangents, or not running them, not sure which, makes it come up .2 short on the gps.

I lined up at the front for the start and headed out strong. There was a decent sized group of people who started off quick. One guy in particular who jumped about 30 feet in front of everyone else for the first half mile or so then he started pulling away from there. One interesting thing about this course is that you aren't sure until the end of mile 2 who you are racing against since the 5k and 10k share the course to that point. I was in six place coming into the split and only 2 people peeled off to the left to head down to geneva. I just held on and was watching my heart rate to make sure I wasn't loafing the rest of the race. The HRM freaked out the first 2 miles, as usual, it had me hit a 214 heart rate.

So I knew I was in third place at that point. My parents were leap frogging me on the course and at one point let me know that the 4th place runner was pretty far back, so at least I didn't have someone breathing down my neck the whole time. 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th, we were all spaced out at least 500 yards from each other, if not more. I knew I was a bit faster than my ran in October and was very surprised when I stopped my watch and it had a 35 on it. I went from a 40 minute 10k to get 2nd last january, to a 35:52 this january to get 3rd. The competition has been getting tougher, but I have been fortunate and have yet to not set a PR on a comparable course since I started running 2 years ago. I know this streak will eventually end, and it will be a sad day when it does, but I am very curious to know how much faster I can push this body before I stop setting pr's.

My splits were, 5:38, 5:34, 5:58, 6:20, 6:29, 6:08

Weight: 184.00

Comments

From Riley on Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 18:09:25 from 71.213.125.248

Nice race! Congrats on your 3rd OA. Your splits are awesome, it looks like the hills through mile 4 barely phased you. Great race.

From crockett on Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 15:31:44 from 71.32.239.119

Congrats on a great race, very speedy. Too bad about the short course, that drives me more nuts than anything else. They need runners on their committee so they can understand the importance of proper length courses. Glad I skipped it this year. We are seeing too many bigger races in the area with short courses.

From Dragonvulture on Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 17:27:17 from 67.41.224.116

Thanks. I think I may ask them how they measured it. It is bad enough to change the course so you can't really compare times, but when it is shorter, that really messes things up. I was actually 1 second slower for both miles 4 and 5 (hills) from October, but made up a bunch of time the other rest of the splits.

From TylerS on Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 13:44:20 from 70.102.167.2

Great job on Saturday I knew after the split that I had no chance in cathing you. I made sure that after the race I told the #1 and #2 guy that the course was short. You will have a lot PR's this year, so stay healthy and dont over do it. I was pretty upset when I found out the course was short. But hey they put on plays not races. They do a pretty good job at a race, just need to measure it next time.

From crockett on Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 13:54:09 from 216.49.181.254

Glad you spoke up. The local trend is bothering. The Rex Lee run last year was a 9K and the race staff didn't care, "everyone gets a PR! Good times." The Halloween 1/2 was significantly short too. But you are right, these guys put on good plays.

From TylerS on Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 14:10:59 from 70.102.167.2

I think that a lot of people are taking advantage of how popular running is right now and they are just putting on races to raise or collect a small pay check. But if they do that they need to make sure that they do it right or esle it will turn away the people that care about distance and give false hope to those that are shooting for a PR. Before the race started my neighbor told me that it was short .1 last year so when they moved the line up this year he said it was going to be short this year. They have a good gig, so I hope they fix it. I will run this again if they fix it, if not I will do a 6 mile tempo in my back yard!

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