Provo City Half Marathon - 2014
Splits: 5:14, 5:04, 5:24, 5:15, 5:23, 5:26, 5:34, 5:24, 5:35, 5:36, 5:42, 5:34, 5:39, 0:48
Fun race. It was great to see a lot of bloggers. Many great performances today. Brett Hales is a machine! (1:05!!!) Fritz, Nate, and Jason had great races. Matt and Mike had respectable runs (I say respectable, because they're obviously capable of more). For me, not a spectacular time, but I'm happy with it given where I'm at with my fitness/training this year. I'm slowly closing the gap versus where I was this time last year:
Canyonlands 1/2
2013 - 1:15:21
2014 - 1:16:42
SLC 1/2
2013 - 1:14:10
2014 - 1:15:48
Provo City 1/2
2013 - 1:11:22
2014 - 1:11:43
Ogden Full
2013 - 2:30:59
2014 - ??? (hoping for low-to-mid 2:30's)
Felt good for most of the race. In retrospect, I think I took it out a little faster than I should have, but its easy to get carried away with the steep downhill earlier miles. I know my splits later in the race paid for it. Cardio felt fine. Legs felt pretty good. Still don't have much speed in the legs, but that's to be expected since I've done very little lately to earn it.
1.5 mile warm, 7.5 mile cool with Brandon and Fritz.
I think the best thing that's happened to my running over the last few week is that I've got some fire back. I hope I can maintain it. The SL 1/2 behind-kicking I received has helped stoked my desire to start consistently putting more effort into my running (at least compared to what its been the past 7-8 months). I'm crossing my fingers I can stay healthy and slowly and consistently build, start getting on the bike, and hopefully get into decent form by late summer-fall.
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P.M. - 27 miles on the bike. First time out this year and could really tell. Good time, butt the climbs kicked my trash. To top of Suncrest (Draper side) and back. Out via Wasatch/Hidden Valley Dr. Home via 13th.
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