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Location:

SLC,Ut,USA

Member Since:

Jul 31, 2009

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

It was an evening in November 2005 that I'll never forget...I was nearing the end of a long term relationship when I needed to unleash some pent-up anger.  I was driving past a baseball park near my house, when something told me to park my car, and just RUN!!  It wasn't long before I moved on with my life and continued running for new reasons.  I now run because I am truly obsessed!  It is a way of life, and I feel incomplete without my weekly runs.  I have completed 28 half marathons, 78 marathons, 7 ultramarathons, and a few other distance runs.

Pr's:

5k:  18:37 Willow Canyon Fun Run  2010

10k:   39:26 Salt Lake Track Club Winter Series 2012

10 Miles:  1:02:15 Emigration 10 Miler 2014

Half Marathon:  1:22:01 Provo Canyon Half  2011

Marathon:  2:56:52  2017 Utah Valley Marathon

50 Miles:  9:22:03 Antelope Island Buffalo Run 2011

100 Miles: 30:40:28 Wasatch 100 2013

Short-Term Running Goals:

Qualify for Boston

Run 100 mile ultramarathon

Sub 3 hour marathon

Beat my old pr's

Long-Term Running Goals:

A marathon in each state, a few ultramarathons....

Personal:

I have a wonderful wife, Melissa, who does not understand why I would want to punish my body with running marathons, but she is very supportive.  She patiently awaits my arrival at the finish line of most of them.  I slipped on a shirt at the last mile of the Ogden Marathon in 2008, that asked: "Melissa, will you Marry Me?"  It was a wonderful moment!

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Race: St. George Marathon (26.2 Miles) 03:06:13, Place overall: 252, Place in age division: 44

It finally happened!!  It has ONLY taken me 23 marathons now to reel in my BQ!  Lets just say that I've learned a lot this year about holding back in the first half of a race, and then pulling ahead in the second half.  Today, this yielded me about a 4 minute negative split, which I never felt I had in me. 

Coming into this race, I decided to conservatively hang with the 3:10 group, while also runnning my own race.  At times, I was along side the 3:10 group, while others, I hung back by as much as a 1/4 mile on some of the uphills.  (Last year; the hill around mile 18 at St. Ledge's Parkway did me in and cost me the qualifier.  I burned out pulling with the group.)  I really enjoyed this race and was delighted to feel strong in the final miles, without 'hitting the wall.'

 

 

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Race: Provo Halloween Half Marathon (13.1 Miles) 01:24:01, Place overall: 10, Place in age division: 3

This event was a great way to start out a Halloween morning!  It was a well executed event, with better organization than could be expected for a new race.  We started out in an area called "Aspen Grove," which is roughly a couple miles up the road from Sundance.  The near all down-hill course provided some decent finishing times, and allowed me to reach a new pr.  One nice attribute of this course was not having the turn-around near Bridal Veil Falls that the Provo River Half Marathon in August does.

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