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Dogtown Half Marathon 2014

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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
44.801.0015.101.0061.90
LunarGLIDE RED Miles: 14.50Lunaracer 3 Black-red Miles: 12.35GoRun Miles: 9.25GoRun Ride 3 Miles: 4.00GoMebs 2 Miles: 15.60
Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
14.500.000.000.0014.50

Good easy Monday run with Dave and Riley. Weather was 55 degrees and gorgeous! Not to shabby for February up north. Always fun and good conversations. Refueled with Darigold and now off to work. Great start to the week.

LunarGLIDE RED Miles: 14.50
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12.350.000.000.0012.35

Plan was to do a 4 mile tempo with some 400s. But stomach bug got me hard today. So no workout. Just an easy run with like 4 bathroom breaks. Glad just to get outside again today. Great weather for February 

Lunaracer 3 Black-red Miles: 12.35
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5.251.002.001.009.25

Stomach felt alot better today then it did yesterday. 

Decided to do 4X1 mile today. Started at Marathon pace, 1/2, 10K, 5K

Splits-5:27; 5:18; 5:08; 4:58

Good workout that wasnt to taxing on the body. Starting to cut the miles for this weeks half, hoping its going to be a good one.

GoRun Miles: 9.25
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.000.000.000.004.00

I usually take the Thursday off before a race but had some extra time and decided to do 4 miles easy before heading down to STG.

Going to be a fun weekend hanging out with Greg Kinnear. I consider myself lucky...

 

GoRun Ride 3 Miles: 4.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
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easy run on the ZEN in STG. Good run before race day. 

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Race: Dogtown Half Marathon 2014 (13.1 Miles) 01:09:35, Place overall: 2, Place in age division: 2
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.500.0013.100.0017.60

DOGTOWN HALF MARATHON

Going to make this nice and simple. 3rd race of the TRIPLE CROWN presented by 1LAW. Headed down to STG because the 1Law stated that they were going to give out 1,000 to the overall circuit winner. Thought it was a good opportunity to win some money. Anyway story at the end of the report.

Hitched a ride up to the start with spencer simpson and Amy Cook. Warmed for about 2.5 miles and threw in 2 strides with Spencer and headed to the start. Talked to some guys from the STG running team and got focused and began the race. 

Talked to Aaron Metler for the 1st mile and we wanted to work together for a bit and go with the flow. Aaron was shooting for 1:07 and I was hoping sub 1:09, but the course ended up being a little bit more challenging then we thought. So anyway by mile 2 Aaron and I were all alone and still running side by side. We hit a dirt trail around mile 3 and was way careful threw there so no ankles were sprained. By mile 4 we were running threw hell hole canyon just a gorgeous ravine that led down to the river bottom. At mile 4 Aaron put 4 seconds on me and it stayed that way til about mile 6. He then opened another gap and had about 15 or so on me through 8. But at miles 8-9 I had a good couple miles and closed again and got   6 seconds behind him, now I was sensing that this was going to be a race if I could muster a solid mile 10 up a beast of a hill. I ended up hitting 5:53 and talking to Aaron he was about 5:30 so he put about 30 seconds total gap on me and opened about another 15 on the downhill through mile 11-12. I tried to get back some time but was running out of distance around mile 12 the race was won. There is a turn around spot just past mile 12 and I saw Aaron coming back at me. I gave him a high 5 and told him congrats! From there I ran in off of feel and came a little short of my sub 1:09. But not dissapointed because it was very challenging and I gave it my best. 

So the story of the 1Law. At the awards I was supposed to get $1,000 for winning the series. The guy at the awards announced the winners and prize money was $250. Now I dont want to sound ungrateful because anything helps. But I was mad, spent alot of money on travel and time for this and they back tracked on everything that was promised. The owner of 1Law  kept telling everyone he nevered stated 1,000 and I should be grateful for what I got. Anyways not to vent alot. My wife and spencer got 100 more out of the guy and Amy Cook got $100 after the guy wasnt going to give her anything.  Just frustrating with the overall outcome. 

Anyways great race will do it again for sure.

Here are my splits: 5:15; 5:04; 5:10; 5:01; 5:16; 5:26; 5:27; 5:09; 5:27; 5:53; 5:22; 5:33; 5:18 and .10 was 4:57 pace. 

Good pictures from STG running center

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
44.801.0015.101.0061.90
LunarGLIDE RED Miles: 14.50Lunaracer 3 Black-red Miles: 12.35GoRun Miles: 9.25GoRun Ride 3 Miles: 4.00GoMebs 2 Miles: 15.60
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