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Location:

Orem,UT,USA

Member Since:

Apr 03, 2006

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Age Division Winner

Running Accomplishments:

HS/COLLEGE:
mile: 4:56, 2 mile: 10:21 (1978)
marathon: 2:52 (St. George 1982)
OLD MAN (20+ years later):
5K: 19:53 (Nestle/Art City Days 5K 2007)
10K: 39:55 (Spectrum 10K 2008)
half marathon: 1:26 (Hobble Creek 2008)
marathon: 3:07 (St. George 2007)

Short-Term Running Goals:

Get back to a BQ marathon time (currently 3:40).

Long-Term Running Goals:

Have fun running, keep fit, and fight middle age spread. Run consistently and injury free. Maintain a healthy balance between running and other life priorities. Encourage my ever-aging running buddies to keep running so we can continue to share runs on the trail instead of rocking chairs.

Personal:

Blessed to be married to Karen for 30 years. We have six children (4 daughters/2 sons) ages 16 to 30, and one wonderful granddaughter.

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Altra Instinct 1.5 Lifetime Miles: 83.50
Altra Lone Peak 1.5 Lifetime Miles: 21.80
Saucony Guide 7 Blue 2 Lifetime Miles: 376.95
Saucony Fastwitch 6 Lifetime Miles: 200.05
Saucony Guide 7 Black 1 Lifetime Miles: 271.15
Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
0.503.100.000.000.003.60

Kevin and I ran the neighborhood 5K course, running about a half a mile to the park as warmup. It starts and ends at Northridge Park. It's roughly 1 mile gradual downhill, 1 mile level, 1 mile gradual uphill and then finishes with a lap around the track at Northridge Park.

My time was 21:21, just under a 7:00 minute average pace. I'm pleased...except Kevin beat me by 3 seconds. :-)

Comments
From Sasha Pachev on Fri, May 05, 2006 at 09:46:58

Did you have any warm-up or cool down?

My predictor says with your training, you are looking at about 3:27 in St. George, assuming this was an all out 5 K. If you upped your mileage to 70 a week and sustained it, with that same speed you'd get 3:18. But I would suspect your 5 K speed would also go up a bit if you were to run 70 miles a week.

From Paul on Fri, May 05, 2006 at 11:26:18

Thanks for your interest and comments.

We did about a half mile of warmup on our way to the park.

3:27 is exactly what I ran last year in St. George. If your predictor is correct, I'm encouraged. I still have 5 months of training to go.

Was this an "all out" 5K? Mostly. We pushed pretty hard (I think I actually heard Kevin breathing hard for the first time :-), but in true race conditions I think I could have dug a little deeper.

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