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Wasatch Back Relay Leg 5

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South Weber,UT,

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May 09, 2012

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Male

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Local Elite

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Personal Records:

800 Meters 1:50.14 (Track-BYU)

1500 Meters 3:42.07 (Track-Stanford) Likely the best race of my life; converts to a 3:59.85 Mile

5000 Meters 14:20 (Track-Stanford)

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Half Marathon (Mesa-Phoenix Half) 1:05:11

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Mesa-Phoenix Half - 3rd Place 1:05:11 PR

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My main goal is just to stay healthy. I was injured every year in my college career except for one. I would like to reverse that trend and always stay injury-free.

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I am a family man. I am married to my beautiful wife Amy (who also ran at Weber and is quite the runner). We have four beautiful daughters named Evelyn (6 years old), Hannah (4 year old), Nora (2 year old), and Iris (5 months).

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Fri, Jun 15, 2012

Race: Wasatch Back Relay Leg 5 (7.93 Miles) 00:48:54

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
0.00	7.93	0.00	0.00	7.93

Leg 5 of the Wasatch Back Relay. I wasn't sure if I was even going to be able to run. My knee has been hurting a lot this week. But I made a commitment to my team to run and I love running with my old teammates (it's like a Weber Track Reunion), so I decided to give it a try.

Going into the leg we were in 2nd place as a team and about 3.5 minutes behind the BYU team for first. I got anxious and wanted to make up time, so I got after it quickly. The leg is basically up a mountain, you run up Avon Pass. You gain over 1200 feet in just under 8 miles. I was a bit too fast at the start and slowed a bit at the end, but overall a very solid time for running over a mountain pass on a rocky dirt road. And in the end I cut two minutes out of the BYU lead! Sweet. Here are my splits from the garmin.

5:51 5:46 6:04 5:58 6:08 6:23 6:59 and 6:06 pace for last .93 Mile 7 gained over 300 feet and was really difficult on me.

The knee hurt the first mile and then warmed up and/or went numb, either way I was able to finish.

Asics DS Racer Miles: 7.93

Weight: 0.00

Comments

From JulieC on Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 18:18:59 from 70.56.109.86

and I thought I was doing well with my 8 min miles!!:D holy smokes!! I ran injured as well. My foot and calf were burning. We runners are NUTS!!

From RileyCook on Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 08:39:18 from 132.3.57.68

Julie: Your time is just as impressive as mine, if not more. You had to put up with more runners, dust, and traffic, not to mention warmer temperatures. We started at 5 pm and so it was somewhat cool by the time I ran, and there weren't any runners by me at all except for the BYU team 3 minutes ahead. So I only had dust from the BYU van once, and my own van twice. I can't imagine having to run that leg in the heat with lots of traffic. You did a great job!

From scottkeate on Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:39:02 from 216.49.181.254

Those are some impressive splits for that leg of the race. Great work! Good idea to stick with an uphill, dirt road for your longest leg given the pain in your knee.

A little rest, cross training, and stretching and your knee will be good to go.

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