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Providence,UT,

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Apr 18, 2008

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Male

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Age Division Winner

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no heart attack yet

 

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

turn 50 and have a colonoscopy done


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avoid open heart surgery

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I am a 50 year old biochemistry professor at Utah State University in Logan.

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Race: Salt Lake half marathon (13.1 Miles) 01:21:10, Place overall: 20, Place in age division: 3
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
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got my yearly free entry courtesy of a friend whose company sponsors the race. still a chaotic disorganized mess at the start but at least they got rid of the chain link fence penning and corraling the runners in at the start, although the porta pottie and start situation is still a complete disaster.  Anyway, the course itself is fun, the weather was great, and the volunteers and police did a nice job. Finally met Rob Murphy at the start and chatted a bit, talked a bit with Steve Anderson as well. My strategy with fairly limited training was to push hard for the first nine miles and then just hold on from there and try to make it to the finish.  I was happy when Allie pulled up along side me around mile 8, that gave me a little mental boost to stay with her through Liberty park, but I was pretty wiped out by then and already psyched out by the thought of State street ahead. Allie forged on running really strong and I struggled up State, then I  turned in a decent final mile to finish in 1:21:10, about 90 seconds faster than last year so I can't complain. unfortunately I couldn't stick around after the race as my son was playing tennis at the Ogden invitational so I drove to Ogden to watch his matches. good day and fun to see some bloggers. good luck to the Boston runners tomorrow! (I am writing this Sunday).

Brooks T5 Miles: 13.10
Comments
From Dorsimus on Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 01:52:08 from 75.162.131.153

Great race! It was funny for me to look at the results in the paper and recognize peoples names from the blog that I've never even met :)

From allie on Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 08:53:57 from 174.23.251.140

great job, scott. it's always fun running with you. way to destroy your time from last year!

From Chad Robinson on Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:17:40 from 67.136.62.186

So should we start calling you the 9 mile guy? Nice job! I would have liked to run it with you all. I imagine it was nice not having to deal with wind. We will have to battle it out at the TOU half.

From Dave S on Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 14:17:18 from 4.253.103.212

Nice job! 1 1/2 minutes faster than last year. That's got to feel good. I'm planning to be at Smithfield Health days in two weeks too. As long as my marathon recovery goes ok.

From JulieC on Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 19:48:13 from 207.108.176.222

wow. so who is THE BUNNY? : D. love the living proof that you raced next to Allie the GREAT. Scott, 90 seconds PR has got to feel AWESOME.

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