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Wildcat Half Marathon 2012

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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
49.5513.100.003.0065.65
Nike Pegasus 28+ Miles: 24.90Altra Instinct Miles: 14.00Nike Pegasus 28+ White Miles: 8.15LunarGlide 3 (Black) Miles: 5.50Lunar Racer RED Miles: 13.10
Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
9.300.000.000.009.30

Good run this morning, just beat the 7 min guy.

Legs responded well towards the end of the run.

Avg pace 6:58 min/miles

Nike Pegasus 28+ Miles: 9.30
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.450.000.000.008.45

Got out a little earlier today for my due to the fact tha it is the first day of the semester.

Pretty stoked! Taking my first swim class, so maybe a TRI might be in my future next year will see.

Avg pace for today was 7:05 min/miles

Nike Pegasus 28+ Miles: 8.45
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
11.000.000.003.0014.00

Morning workout with Riley, Ken and Jon.

Warmup 2.5 miles with strides 

Workout was 800-400-200-1000 X 2 sets

splits 2:20-65-31-3:05. 2nd set- 2:21-65-30-3:13.

Legs fell off around 600 meters in the 1000. But overall a solid workout for the day

4.5 miles cool.

 

P.M. 4 miles in the early afternoon before work. 

avg pace 6:30 minute miles

Altra Instinct Miles: 14.00
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.150.000.000.008.15

Recovery run. Legs were a little sore from yesterdays workout. 

Positive outlook on the workout is that I know I have to hit those faster times on the track to get where I want to be as a runner. More than willing to be a little sore!!

 Todays route was up 2600 N to the canal Rd. looped back to 3100 N. down washington back to lees.

avg pace 7:25 min/miles

Nike Pegasus 28+ White Miles: 8.15
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.500.000.000.005.50

Easy run on the treadmill. Last 2 minutes picked the pace up to 5 minutes to spin the legs to get them ready for another Half Marathon tomorrow.

 

avg pace 7:00 min/miles

LunarGlide 3 (Black) Miles: 5.50
Weight: 0.00
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Race: Wildcat Half Marathon 2012 (13.1 Miles) 01:13:40, Place overall: 5, Place in age division: 1
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.1513.100.000.0020.25

What a morning woke up early to look outside to see that it was dumping outside and the lightning was going crazy!! But by the time I started my drive up to Huntsville the rain had stopped so that was a good thing too. On the way up got in my race breakfast of a Rockstar Recovery and PowerBar.

Met Riley and ran into Albert. So the 3 of us warmed up together. Since the lines were so long for the bathrooms I showed Riley where the secret bathrooms were. Fantastic no line at all. Managed to sneek about 5K for warmup with 1 stride.

As the race got going the pack split pretty fast. Riley, Ken, Jake, Albert, Nate and Bret. Pace felt comfortable for the 1st and 2nd mile. Splits were 5:29; 5:18. After mile 2 I decided to push the pace a little bit to see how the legs would respond. My hope was that my legs responded well and I could've hit a zone hitting anywhere between 5:20- 5:25 splits. After a 5:09 mile my legs were heavy. From there my splits slowly got slower and found myself in no mans land around mile 7 after Ken had to hit the restroom and continued to do so until mile 10.

My ultimate goal was to catch Nate but he maintained the gap and I just couldn't get my legs moving under 5:30 pace. Overall it was definitely a harder effort then I would've liked but at the same part I have to remember the ultimate goal is St. George and this training will pay dividends for that race.(knock on wood).

Splits for 4-13.10

5:26; 5:45; 5:31; 5:45; 5:45; 5:47; 5:50; 5:45; 5:36; 5:49; :36 seconds for last .10

In the past for this race my splits were low 5:30s to high 5:30s, but as my 3 year old would tell me "It is what it is"

Plan for the next couple weeks is to nail out some 80 mile weeks(school permitting). Get some good hard long runs in and hope for the best.

Cooled down with Ken, Riley and Albert for 3 miles. Hung around got some awards and snagged a cool Camelbak bottle from the raffle and then Riley talked me into to 1 more mile to get over 20 for the morning. 

4.05 cool.

Congrats to everyone who ran today!!

 


Lunar Racer RED Miles: 13.10Nike Pegasus 28+ Miles: 7.15
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
49.5513.100.003.0065.65
Nike Pegasus 28+ Miles: 24.90Altra Instinct Miles: 14.00Nike Pegasus 28+ White Miles: 8.15LunarGlide 3 (Black) Miles: 5.50Lunar Racer RED Miles: 13.10
Weight: 0.00
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