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Snow Canyon Half Marathon 2016

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Location:

North Ogden,UT,U.S.

Member Since:

May 23, 2010

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

5K- 14:58, 10K- 31:05, 1/2- 1:06:47 Marathon- 2:23:29

3rd- Park City Marathon 2008

3rd and 4th Ogden Marathon 2010; 12'

5th, 3rd, and 7th- Utah Valley Marathon 2011;14'; 16'

9th, 3rd,11th, 8th, 5th, 8th St. George Marathon 2010, 11',13',14',15'16'

2nd- Deseret News Marathon 2015

1st- SandHollow Marathon- 2016 (CR***)

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

2024 POTENTIAL RACES

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

                                                                          -Helen Keller

              

 

Personal:

Married to Nikki we have 4 children. Jaerdan, Korver, Grady and Lyla McKell

Head XC/Track Coach at Weber High

Graduated from Weber State with a Bachelor's of Science Degree in Athletic Therapy.

 

 

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 257.46
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
55.350.000.000.0055.35
Skechers GORun 4 Bright Green Miles: 10.72GoStrada 2 Miles: 20.12Hoka Clifton(RETIRED) Miles: 5.00GoRun Ultra Green Miles: 4.11GOMeb RIO Miles: 15.40
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.210.000.000.004.21

Easy treadmill miles. 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
12.010.000.000.0012.01

Easy run with Dave, Ken and Riley. Legs were a little tired do to the little pickups on Saturday.

Weird!
 

Happy Halloween!

 

GoStrada 2 Miles: 12.01
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.110.000.000.008.11

DC run with Denver, Bryant, Dave, Riley and Jared. Weather has been spot on in the mornings. Would take 4-5 more weeks of this before winter hits.

 

 

GoStrada 2 Miles: 8.11
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.510.000.000.006.51

Easy run in Davis County again with Dave, Jason, Jared and Ken.

About 23 minutes in we did 6X20 second strides at mile pace.

Attempting Snow Canyon for my last race of the year. Hoping for a good one. Maybe a new Fantasy PR?? Who knows.

Skechers GORun 4 Bright Green Miles: 6.51
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.000.000.000.005.00

Easy run up in North Ogden

Hoka Clifton(RETIRED) Miles: 5.00
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4.110.000.000.004.11

Out and back on Diagnol in STG. Beautiful 80 degrees and no complaints

Race tomorrow.

GoRun Ultra Green Miles: 4.11
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Race: Snow Canyon Half Marathon 2016 (13.17 Miles) 01:09:50, Place overall: 2
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
15.400.000.000.0015.40

2.20 mile warm with the Dave, Jared, Ken and Taylor.

Race was probably the worse that I have ran the entire year minus the WRC Half in April.

Gun went off and Spencer Gardner and I took the lead right out of the gates. We chatted a bit the first bit. Found out he is a very talented runner from BYU. Been injured this year and wanted to get in a race before the year was over. Anyway we came through mile 1 at 4:59. Mile 2 was 5 flat and Spencer had gained a 10 second lead already. My first thought was thats okay he hasnt ran the course and he will blow on the downhill and I will pick him off late in the race. Miles 3-10K were 5:04; 4:53; 4:53; 4:57 and 10k time was 30:24. Looked a head and could see Spencer way up in the lead. Still thought he would come back until mile 7 went 5:07 then mile 8 was 5:34! I had no clue what was going on but my legs were done. Just felt like Jello. From there I was like every mile I hit without anyone passing me is a good mile because I thought for sure that I would be passed by Boone, Poulsen, Dave, Ken, Jared, Taylor. I hit mile 10 around 51:30 and I knew Ken wanted to be around that time so I snuck my first look back and no one was behind me at all. I thought what the heck is happening back there. Anyway, I knew first was gone and I was still in 2nd place so again every mile that I didnt get passed was a good one. At mile 12 I hit 5:47 and took another look back and could see Abel Boone not to far behind so I ran a solid half mile split not sure what it was but looked back around 12.5 and had a slightly bigger gap so literally the last 1K of the race I was just looking back every 10 seconds making sure he wasnt making a move on me. I ended up taking 2nd and Abel came in 12 seconds back in 1:10:02.

The only thing I can think of why I ran so poor was the pickups that we did on Wednesday. We ended up going way faster than we should've which easily could've zapped the glycogen right out of my system. Plus Dave, Jared and Ken all ran poor too. They did the same workout.

Well I guess I will live and learn from simple mistakes. But glad to 2nd overall. Felt that was my place in the race. Spencer ended up with a high 1:05. Now time to recoup and recover. No races planned anytime soon. So it will be interesting what 2017 season will look like.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
55.350.000.000.0055.35
Skechers GORun 4 Bright Green Miles: 10.72GoStrada 2 Miles: 20.12Hoka Clifton(RETIRED) Miles: 5.00GoRun Ultra Green Miles: 4.11GOMeb RIO Miles: 15.40
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