Hurt so good.

Well I don't even know where to begin. To be honest the whole entire race was really a blur. The miles were just flying by and the pace was just awesome.

Well I was a little worried about this Marathon not that I didn't feel that I was ready. I was just worried about the heat so I knew the goal was to stay hydrated as long as possible and to keep body temp down by dumping water. Okay so into the race the plan was to run with Jeff and Walter and try break the beast of a 2:30 marathon.

Gun went off and the key was to stay patient for the first half I really wanted to hit under 1:16 for the half just give myself a shot to break 2:30. First couple of miles were nice and easy hit around 5:50 pace to get the legs moving and then we started picking off the miles to about mile 8 were Veyo hill starts. Splits were between 5:25 to 5:40 in between there.

The cool thing was is that when we hit Veyo we had a solid group of guys, at least 6-7 of us. Which was nice because we were able to stay together and work the hills as a group. We came through the half exactly at 1:15:30. By now there was 5 of us together. I didnt know any of the guys except Dave Holt. Him and I were mostly leading the group talking to each other and keeping the pace honest so we didn't blow ourselves up. Right now I just want to thank Dave for those miles and working with him. He allowed us all to stay patient and it gave me the opportunity to be able to finish strong just like I wanted. So Dave thanks!!!

So really around 21 miles is when I decided just to go for it. I didn't know how the legs were going to respond but for me it was now or never. Really the miles were just a blur, I remember passing a BYU guy around 23 miles and then passing another runner at 24 miles. I could see another runner in the distance but was way up there and there was no way I could get him. So I thought as I made the last turn into the finish I saw Ian Hunter about 100 meters up and then he just stopped and stood there. He was cramping bad!! So I just went for it and passed him with about 100 meters to go.

I came across the finish line at 2:28:47 and felt the pile of  bricks come off my back. I finally achieved the sub 2:30. Also to top it off I didn't realize that I placed 3rd overall!!! then to top things off again. Jon Kotter decided not to take the Ibigawa Japan trip and since Pepi was the masters winner it was offered to me. That was the Icing on the Cake. Still don't feel like I deserve the trip and there are better runners out there that deserve it more than I do. But you know this is once in a lifetime opportunity and I way excited to go. Now back to the drawing board, time to recover  and heal my body for another Marathon in 5 weeks.

Again just want to thank Dave, Clyde, Walter, Jeff and all the other guys we ran. Awesome group of guys and that what makes Marathons fun. Also want to thank the guy equiped with 4 ipods, highlight of my trip and made for a good laugh!!

Marathon Splits

1-5:47

2- 5:52

3- 5:39

4- 5:26

5-5:40

6-5:25

7- 5:24

8-6:12

9-6:03

10-5:54

11-6:04

12-5:52

13-5:35

HALF- 1:15:30

14-5:36

15-5:31

16-5:22

17-5:35

18-5:34

19-5:49

20-5:29

21-5:32

22-5:34

23-5:28

24-5:25

25-5:33

26-5:45

Marathon- 2:28:47

Ran 2 miles today and every step was painful. Quads are shot!!! 

avg pace 8 min/miles

Legs felt a little better today. Still had soreness on the downhill but other than that felt okay

Pace was easy 7:30 min/miles

Man did someone turn on the Winter switch up here in North Ogden. Woke up with snow in the Mountains and rain in the Valley. Makes for good running weather. To bad I cant run hard yet would have made a great tempo day.

Recovery pace 7:30 min/miles

60 min run today. Just enjoying the break from all the rain. Nice cool morning.

Pace was relaxed.

Ran with Jon and Bret from the North Ogden Nature Center. 

Cold morning, broke out the gloves already this season. Great Running weather though.

A.M

7.00

Ran the trails above 9th street. Pace was way slow because I forgot my head lamp. Wasn't able to see where I was stepping. Other than that it was a pretty warm morning with the cloud cover.

avg pace 8:35 min/miles

P.M.

4.20

Pushed my boy Korver in the jogger. Lately he has been loving it, brings his toy gun with him and shoots down all the cars. Makes me laugh!!

avg pace 7:10 min/miles

Track Workout

2.75 mile warm

9X400 w/90 jog.

1.25 mile cool

total miles-7.05 miles

Hit the Canal road. Out and Back.

avg pace 7:11 min/miles

Loop from my house. Did a Troad Run(mix between trails and roads). Stole that from Clyde.

Loop from my house and made it to the trails. Nice run today pace felt relaxed and plus there is no reason to push the legs right now.

pace 6:51 min/miles

TEMPO RUN

Officially the first Tempo since the Marathon. Really didn't go into this workout with high hopes. Really just wanted to flush the legs and get the HR up.

3.55 mile warm

3.00 mile tempo

Splits- 5:18; 5:15; 5:08

First mile was about 7 seconds faster than I wanted. At that point I thought I was going to either feel good the whole tempo or just blow up. When mile 2 was a little quicker I was now committed to the pace and just went with it. Overall a little to fast probably for a short tempo especially so close after a Marathon. But just ran off of feel.

2 mile cool

Legs felt extremely tired today. Breathing was off too. 7 minute pace felt like I was pushing 190 on the HR.

Out and Back from the North Ogden Nature Center

avg pace 6:58 min/miles

Man easily 10 degrees cooler today than yesterday.

Out and Back on the canal Rd. in North Ogden.

Avg pace 7:10 min/miles

PM

4 miles with Korver in the jogging stroller.

Avg pace 7:30 min/miles

TRACK WORKOUT

2.05 warm

2X3200 @ 5:25 pace

w/1600 jog in between sets

3 min recovery

4X400 @ 72 pace w/90 sec jog

1 mile cool

Total Miles-9.50

Enjoyed a day to sleep in. It was actually really nice to see the Sun again on a run. The mornings lately have been great, perfect running weather.

Legs felt a little heavy to start my run from yesterdays workout. But seemed to loosen up and the fatigue went away by the end of my run.

avg pace 6:55 min/miles

Warm morning. Very nice. Hit a flat loop through North Ogden and Harrisville 

avg pace 7:10 min/miles.

Signed up for the Halloween Half today, never ran it. Figured I could use it as a solid workout before I head to Japan in a couple of weeks to run the Marathon. Plus it looked like a Fun race!!!

Took Jaerdan and Korver to the park to have a picnic. While they were playing I was lucky to sneak in a run around the track at the park.

Avg pace 6:48 min/miles

All I can say is this weather is Beautiful!!! I am not excited for the winter to come. One of these days I will end up in St. George so I will not have to deal with the winters.

 Nice run today. Took advantage of the weather I went longer.

Ran 10 miles around 7 min/pace then dropped 4 mile tempo @ 5:35 pace

splits

1- 5:31

2-5:32

3-5:36

4-5:39

just shy of a 3 mile cool.

Well this is a not going to be a fancy race report. But went and tried the Halloween Half Marathon, really Beautiful run and a lot of down hill. Started out pretty conservative and that was really hard to do because of the down hill on the course. Don't know what my splits were because I left my garmin at home, and the miles were long and short never were consistant. So basically the whole entire run was off of feel. Around mile 6 I passed about 5 or 6 runners maybe even more that were already blown up from going out to fast on the down hill. Passed 3 more on the Parkway path and almost caught Ken Richardson only because he had a bathroom stop. 

Overall time  1:10:18 on my watch. Legs felt good and happy with a New PB!! Felt like I could have attacked the course harder but knew I had to stay conservative because of  the Ibigawa Marathon in Japan in a couple of weeks. Really would love to run well over there.

Congrats to Riley Cook who tore the course up today!! 1:07!! New PB for him also!!!

One more hard week of workouts and a taper for Ibigawa  then the season is over!! Going to enjoy a small break resting my body.