Every Race is an Adventure!

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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

Fri, Jun 06, 2008

Easy Miles	Threshold Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Track speed mileage	Hill mileage	Total
3.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	3.00

Since school is out now, and my morning schedule is not so tight, I was able to join my adult son Andrew for basketball with "the old gang" this morning. The core members of the group have been playing regularly together for 25+ years. I haven't been for months and the participants had changed a little. Until Dean, Lex, and Nate showed up, I was 25 to 35 years older than the other 8 or 9 people there. I wanted to change my mind and go home and run a few easy miles instead, but I was Andrew's ride and he wanted to stay, so I stayed. It turned out to be a lot of fun, and I didn't stink it up too bad. It was great to talk with Andrew on the ride there and back and we had a good conversation in the kitchen after we got home. I don't get much time to talk to Andrew and that opportunity was the key consideration in choosing basketball over running this morning. I would have only run a few easy miles anyway as my legs have felt a little sluggish as I've boosted my mileage, and I wanted to rest them a little before the Nestle 5K tomorrow.

Comments

From Tom on Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 14:55:51

You made the right choice today Paul. Best of luck to you on the 5K tomorrow. My prediction is 19:26.

From josse on Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 16:03:58

19:16 eh? I hope I can stay with you!!

How fast are you going to start out?

From Paul T on Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 16:38:11

Last year I finished the Nestle 5K in 19:53, my current PR, with splits of 6:37, 6:19, 6:23, and 0:35.

The official results were messed up so they still have my official 2007 time as 19:28 (I wish).

Let's see: 2007 Results: 19:28, Tom: 19:26, Josse: 19:16 (a typo I hope).

I think it's a conspiracy. My goal is simply to match or beat 19:53, which won't be easy since I've been trying to build my mileage back up and have been doing no real speed work to speak of. Now with all these fast times being thrown around no matter how fast I run tomorrow it's going to be a disappointment. (I predict 2:25 for Tom and Josse at St. George. Don't let me down.) :)

Last year before the race I quoted Steve Prefontaine: "The only good race pace is suicide pace, and today looks like a good day to die." That's the mindset with which I started the race and it turned out pretty well.

Last Saturday I watched "Without Limits", the movie made about Steve Prefontaine's life. I learned about his wild lifestyle and that he died at age 24 in a car crash. I'm not sure I want to emulate him anymore.

Still, I feel last year's splits of 6:37, 6:19, 6:23, and 0:35 represent the best I had to give last year. I didn't hold back and gave it all I had.

This year I think I'll target 6:35 for the first mile and try to beat last year's splits by a few seconds. Roughly that would be 6:35, 6:15, 6:20, and 0:30 for 19:40. It scares me just to think about it. I'm not sure it's in me. We'll see what the day brings. It may be a mini-repeat of my crash and burn at the Utah Valley Marathon.

There's a chance I may not show up (and not out of fear). I have a last minute conflicting activity. I'm curious to see which I decide to do.

That shouldn't matter to you, Josse. If you're hoping you can stay with a 19:16 pace I won't be seeing much of you anyway. What is your goal for the race?

From josse on Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 16:42:55

Yes it was a typo sorry. I am not the best 5ker so I was just hoping to keep up with you at Toms prediction of 19:26.

Haven't been feeling it lately so we will see. I hope you make it.

From josse on Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 16:45:10

I don't know what Tom is capable of but 2:25 for sure!!! I hope you are up to pacing me for that Paul.

From Kerry on Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 17:13:53

Good luck, Paul! The great thing about a race is you never know for sure what's going to happen...it's like, well, an adventure!

From Tom on Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 18:04:07

Sorry to put any undue pressure Paul! You always race great so I think whatever time you end up running I'm doubtful you'll have reason for any dissapointment as long as you feel like you did your best for that day. Hey I'm the king of lousy 5Ks so I know as well as anyone how easy/quickly things can go south with that distance.

At any rate I'm looking forward to seeing how the race goes. Best of luck to both of you. I think you'll both do great.

From Tom on Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 14:45:02

Paul where is that race report? The anticipation is killing me! I'm thinking with the nasty weather it probably slowed everyone down a little.

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