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Location:

Riverton,UT,

Member Since:

May 06, 2006

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:


PR Marathon

2:51:33 (St. George 2009)

3:01:00 (St. George 2008)

3:09:52 (St. George 2007)

3:24:48 (St. George 2006)

Short-Term Running Goals:

Improve training. Get serious, lose weight.

Improve speed.


Long-Term Running Goals:

Lifetime fitness, including running.

 

Personal:

Married with 4 kids. I live in Riverton and work as an attorney downtown in Salt Lake City.

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Race: Tithing Hill Ward 5K (3.1 Miles) 00:19:30, Place overall: 2
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
1.900.000.003.105.00

1.5 mile warmup.  0.4 cooldown.

 3.1 at Tithing Hill Ward 5K. I blogged about this once before, but I'll repeat that the only 5ks I've ever "raced" our my neighborhood/ward 5k.  In the past I have always taken 3rd.  This year I tried to do better.

 Not having much experience pacing for a 5k, I decided to go out with the leader.  I purposefully did not wear my heart rate monitor because in the past when I see it getting high, I wimp out.  Well, after working our way past all the little tykes, 4 time defending champ Ian went out fast (for us non-elite runners) and I went with him.  We quickly left Marci, who in the past has finished ahead of me behind.  We went through the first mile split in 5:50 and at this point, I mentally said, "I want to finish" so Ian gapped me. He gapped me during the 2nd mile and I never made it up.  I did push him to his personal record 19:12 and I finished behind in 2nd at 19:30.  .

 Now all is not lost.  The course is first half way out on the Jordan River train, then back to the finish, so it is fairly flat with no net elevation gain or loss, so 19:30 is an honest indicator of where I am at.  Not too bad considering I decided to train seriously (for me) only about a week before Des News.  Also, I'm in the middle of my highest training volume ever, with no taper yet.  I need to race more to get experience racing, but this was a good workout.  I took off 21 seconds from my treadmill 5k August 8 (19:51), so that is also good progress.

Comments
From Jon on Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 19:36:18

Sounds like you are doing well and running very consistently. Congrats on your second place finish.

From Tom on Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 20:55:00

Great job on the race. You are well on your way to getting that sub-3 marathon within the next year.

From Cal on Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 11:18:00

Good race Paul! 5:50 on the first mile is smokin, and that's a great 5k time!

From RivertonPaul on Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 11:23:49

Cal -- Thanks, the 1st mile was too fast for me, probably cost me a few seconds, but I was really trying to force myself into "racing." Unfortunately, it wasn't enough, but I am pleased overall.

From Chad on Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 16:10:56

Nice work, Paul.

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