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Location:

Idaho Falls,ID,USA

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

St. George Marathon 2007 2:32:06 (PR)

PF Chang Rock N Roll Marathon 2008 2:39:21 (30th male overall)

Ragner Relay Del Sol (182 mile relay) 1st place team (17:04:37, 5:38 pace avg for the team)

Shamrock Marathon (pacing women's OTQ race) Mar 16 (done: 2:48:56)

Ogden Maraton 2008 (done 2:37:29, 5th overall)

Wasatch Back Relay June 20-21, 2008 (2nd place, 17:54:16)

Pocatello Half Marathon 2008 (1:15:36)

Boston Marathon 2006 2:49

Short-Term Running Goals:

Run, Rock and Roll HM August 2 (done: 1:16:42)

Pocatello Half Marathon August 30 (done: 1:15:36)

US Master's Marathon Championships at the Twin Cities Marathon Oct. 5 (done, 2:44:17)

Run to Feed the Hungry 10K (November 27)

Win another marathon in 2008 (outright or as a Master)

Long-Term Running Goals:

Keep running and improving times until this old body says no!

Run a sub-2:30 marathon (non-aided course); run a sub 1:15 half (non-aided course)

Personal:

Born in 1968. I live in Idaho Falls, ID. I started running competitively in 2005 and ran my first marathon in 2005.

Married for 15 years with two children (8 and 5).

Favorite Blogs:

Miles:	This week:	18.50	Month:	11.50	Year:	3428.82
Stratos 2 Lifetime Miles:						450.05
Tangent 3 Lifetime Miles:						69.00
Stratos 1 Lifetime Miles:						445.65
Tangent 1 Lifetime Miles:						248.00
Fireblades Lifetime Miles:						121.00
Tornado 3 (T3) Lifetime Miles:						80.00

Sat, Oct 06, 2007

Race: St. George Marathon (26.2 Miles) 02:32:06, Place overall: 20, Place in age division: 9

Easy Miles Marathon Pace Miles Threshold Miles VO2 Max Miles Total Distance

0.00 26.20 0.00 0.00 26.20

Great race overall! Nice day for a race...the weather really cooperated after the winds the past few days. Cool but not bad at the start. Hooked up with the bloggers in the starting area. Gun went off early (barely had dropped our bags when it sounded!).

1st half: 1:18:36

2nd half: 1:13:30

Felt great afterwards, but feel I left it out all there for this race. Great meeting and running with all the Bloggers! Way to go everyone.

Splits:

1-6:00 Running with James Barnes and Brett Hill. Cold but not bad, glad I have the gloves but anymore clothes would have been too hot.

2-6:05 Easing into the race here still on the uphill.

3-5:42 First downhill.

4-5:37 Downhill feeling good so opening up a bit

5-5:47

6-5:32 Pass the first place woman

7-5:29 First GU.

8-6:35 Vejo Hill, what a climb

9-6:20 Recovering after the hill.

10-6:16 (I remembering hearing a 59:25 time at this point).

11-6:33 Don't know what happened here, but slowed for some reason

12-6:10 The end of the hills!

13-5:51 Half way mark in 1:18:36ish.

14-5:47 Drop Brett Hill and running with the 1st place woman again. She indicated a goal of 2:34.

15-5:27 Drop first place woman. Second GU.

16-5:14 Great downhill and feeling good. Start to feel my left hamstring...a little tight but nothing bad and it feels better when opening up on the downhills.

17-5:30 One guy passes me here.

18-5:31

19-5:56 Pretty good hill here. Pass 2 guys.

20-5:42

21-5:21 Nice downhill, pass 3 more guys, including first place master. 3rd GU.

22-5:51 Can see town and the downhills continue.

23-5:31 Feeling strong.

24-5:27 Nice downhill into town. Pass 2 guys here.

25-5:44 Still feeling pretty good and running strong.

26-5:54 Pass a guy before the turn onto 300 South, feeling great!

0.2-1:17 (5:31 pace). Push hard at the end but can't quite make sub 2:31, but very happy with the result...right on target!

Great race, ran with James Barnes (through 3) and Brett Hill for the first half and then solo for rest of race. Much more uphill than anticipated or advertised but second half is a fast course (new HM PR of 1:13:30ish!).

Comments

From Christi on Oct 07, 2007 at 10:07:07

Congrats Jeff! I agree, more hills than I anticipated too. I trained a few times on the Veyo hills, but there will a few suprise hills as well. You did awesome!

From Superfly on Oct 07, 2007 at 17:12:45

Jeff great race. I was way proud of you when you came in. That's a great time and a big PR. Hope you and your family had a good weekend down here and that you make it home safe. I try and tell everyone this course is fast but not easy. I hear people say "St. George is 26 miles of all downhill," and I just have to laugh. I don't know what race they run because I remember climbing a lot of hills.

Anyways good job again. Hope to see you at some races next year.

From Mik'L on Oct 07, 2007 at 17:28:18

Good job Jeff...that was a great PR! We were all excited to see you come in so early! Congrats!

From Paul Petersen on Oct 07, 2007 at 18:25:15

Wicked-awesome job, Jeff. Savor the PR. It was great seeing you again.

From MichelleL on Oct 07, 2007 at 19:09:07

Congratulations on a fast and strong race! I enjoyed reading your blog mile by mile and wish mine sounded the same as yours. What a PR, too!

It was great to meet you at the blog party. Thank you for your advice there. I hope to see you again next year!

From ArmyRunner on Oct 07, 2007 at 20:55:16

Great job Jeff. You ran a great race. I probably should have gone out with you but at the start I didn't see you and James and was content running a tad slower as the legs were not really there for some reason. I could see you in the distance the whole second half but could never close the gap. Anyway, great race and we will have to form up some more pack running at future races and push eachother to new PRs.

From James on Oct 08, 2007 at 01:11:36

Nice job buddy! You ran awesome, and exactly what you said you would. I never lost sight of you until mile 24, but you had more in the tank than I did, and I could never catch back up after that first 5 miles. It was good to run with you for as long as I did.

From Dave Holt on Oct 08, 2007 at 09:14:40

Jeff, way to smoke it! Great to get to meet you this weekend.

From Jon on Oct 08, 2007 at 15:16:36

Great job, Jeff! All those runs paid off. Plus, you passed 8 guys in the last 10k!

I'll let you know next time I am up there- are you training through the winter?

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