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The Haunted Half SLC

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Location:

Sandy,UT,

Member Since:

Sep 23, 2013

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Marathon Finish

Running Accomplishments:

5k: 18:34 American Fork 2014

Half Marathon: 1:30:30 Saltair 2013

Marathon: 3:44:22 St. George 2014

Long-Term Running Goals:

Continue running. 

Personal:

I started running in April of 2013 and I think I'm addicted.  I'm 37, married and I have 3 daughters.

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Nike Air Pegasus+ 29 Lifetime Miles: 658.15
Altra Instinct 1.5 Lifetime Miles: 529.10
Saucony Kinvara 4 Lifetime Miles: 679.85
Saucony Peregrine 3 Lifetime Miles: 164.60
Saucony Type A5 Lifetime Miles: 310.35
Altra One2 Lifetime Miles: 233.10
Asics Cumulus 15 Lifetime Miles: 508.00
Saucony Ride 6 Lifetime Miles: 361.40
Brooks Ghost Lifetime Miles: 114.70
Kinvara 6 Lifetime Miles: 61.00
Mizuno Lifetime Miles: 4.90
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
55.5026.4081.90
Asics Cumulus 15 Miles: 36.50Altra Instinct 1.5 Miles: 4.00Saucony Ride 6 Miles: 18.30Altra One2 Miles: 8.00Saucony Kinvara 4 Miles: 15.10
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
9.005.0014.00

14 miles with a 5-mile fast finish

6:22, 7:12, 6:50, 6:47, 7:00

Not consistent with the fast finish because it was hilly. Most of it downhill. I felt good, no injuries. But I'm not feeling very fast.

Asics Cumulus 15 Miles: 14.00
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
4.000.004.00

4 miles

Altra Instinct 1.5 Miles: 4.00
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
6.000.006.00

6 miles

Saucony Ride 6 Miles: 6.00
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
2.006.008.00

6-mile tempo

7:08, 7:01, 6:57, 6:57, 6:48, 6:47

I'm very pleased with tonight's workout. I started out very conservative to avoid dying in the middle and was able to do negative splits. That's the type of stuff I need to bump up the confidence and get some solid work done.

Altra One2 Miles: 8.00
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
4.000.004.00

4 miles

Saucony Ride 6 Miles: 4.00
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
5.800.005.80

5.8 miles

Asics Cumulus 15 Miles: 5.80
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
4.300.004.30

4.3 miles

Saucony Ride 6 Miles: 4.30
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
2.702.305.00

2.3 mi Fartlek

8 reps between 5:05 and 6:58

Asics Cumulus 15 Miles: 5.00
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
6.000.006.00

6 miles

Lunch run with Andrea.  Perfect temperature.

Asics Cumulus 15 Miles: 6.00
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4.000.004.00

4 miles

Saucony Ride 6 Miles: 4.00
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Race: The Haunted Half SLC (13.1 Miles) 01:26:52, Place overall: 16, Place in age division: 4
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
2.0013.1015.10

I got to the buses at about 6:40 AM and then got up to the top of Emigration Canyon just after 7:00 AM. The race didn't start until 8:45 AM so I had a ton of time to kill. It was in the low 40s and pretty chilly. To keep warm for the next 2 hours I headed up a trail near the starting line. After about 10 minutes of hiking I came up on two of the laziest hunters sitting near the trail. Any deer nearby would surely have been scared off by the blaring music and hundreds of people down on the road. Not sure why they didn't go farther on the trail. I passed them and kept going for a while as the sun rose and saw seven deer cross the ridge I was on. I didn't tell the hunters.

There was a headless horseman at the starting line and a yoga class. I didn't really hang around though and headed off for a 2-mile warm up down towards Mountain Dell Reservoir.

Although this was not a very small race, right up next to the starting line was not crowded at all. No pushing necessary to get near the front. The gun went off and the headless horseman threw his pumpkin head and it exploded on someone's car hood. The don't think that part was scripted. The first few miles of the course are very steep (7%-4%) and it was difficult not to got too fast. My goal was not to go faster than 6:00 min/mi. I averaged 6:09 for the first two miles. But slowed down after that. I think I kept my pace reasonable for the rest of the miles. I struggled at the end in the neighborhoods because there were a couple of small hills. And at Sugarhouse Park there was a tough Hill directly before the finish.

Saucony Kinvara 4 Miles: 15.10
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
5.700.005.70

5.7 miles

Asics Cumulus 15 Miles: 5.70
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55.5026.4081.90
Asics Cumulus 15 Miles: 36.50Altra Instinct 1.5 Miles: 4.00Saucony Ride 6 Miles: 18.30Altra One2 Miles: 8.00Saucony Kinvara 4 Miles: 15.10
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