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Fit For Life Half Marathon

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Location:

Riverton,UT,

Member Since:

Aug 19, 2010

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

5K PR 17:03 (2002)

10K PR (aided) Provo River 10k Uneventful10/05/2013 - 35:23

2013 Provo River Half (Time Trial) - 1:17:55 (PR)

2010 Citrus Heritage 10k - 37:42

2013 Fit For Life Half Marathon (Boise, ID)  - 1:20:40 (unaided PR)

2013 SOJO Marathon - 2:54:39 (PR)

2011 Fleet Feet Turkey Trot 5k - 17:56 (recent PR)

Short-Term Running Goals:

Get comfortable at 5:50 mile pace. 

2013 Race Schedule

Riverton Half Marathon - March 23th

Ogden Marathon - May 18th

Riverton 10k - July 4th

Fit For Life Half Marathon - Boise, ID - July 13th

SOJO Marathon - South Jordan - October 19th

Long-Term Running Goals:

Have a marathon time in the 2:30's

Personal:

Perhaps the skinniest healthy runner you will meet.  I am 6'-1" and 123lbs.  It doesn't matter if I run or not it is just how I am built. 

I am 38, married (Aubrey) and have two boys Steffin (9) & Alex (6)

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Merrel Road Glove 2 Lifetime Miles: 620.30
Race: Fit For Life Half Marathon (13.109 Miles) 01:20:40, Place overall: 4, Place in age division: 1
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.400.0013.100.0020.50

What a wonderful race!  I now have a new unaided PR by nearly 3 minutes (the course is an out-and-back on the Boise Green Belt).  This is my second year in a row running this race (my sister lives in Boise so we spend a few days hanging out and jump into this half (only $38)).  My sister just lives a bit over a mile from the start of the course so I did a warm-up jog over and got the bowels taken care of.  The weather was pretty perfect with low 60's, a little tiny breeze, and little to no humidity. The race at 7:30 and we were off.  I started of rather conservative and passed several runners toward the end of the first mile.  Around mile 3 I felt something hitting my leg and looked down to see that shoe was coming untied (darn it).  I slowed a bit leading up to the turn-around but then was able to get into a good rhythm going down stream.  A couple little bump in the trail slowed me a bit but otherwise I was feeling great.  I got passed into fifth with about 2 miles to go but passed my self in fourth (a different guy) with about a third of a mile to go.  I ended up finishing 23 seconds behind 3rd (darn shoe lace).  

5:47 (I still think this mile marker is short), 6:01, 6:23 (had to tie my shoe), 6:09, 12:30 (missed the marker), 6:28, 6:08, 6:11, 6:20, 5:59, 6:09, 5:57 and 36 seconds for the last 0.1.

After chatting with the others and resting up a bit I headed out for a 5 mile cool down while waiting for awards.  Collected my miniature bat (a good forget me stick) for first in my division and jogged it back to my sisters house.

Comments
From Chad on Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 09:32:13 from 168.177.153.180

Nice job Chad!

From Ryan Achatz on Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 01:18:30 from 170.232.192.10

I saw you running the race. You were tieing your shoe as I was was coming the other way. I was out on a long run along the greenbelt. You passed me one other time as I was going the other way around your mile 10-11. I was going to say your name but I couldn't spit it out in time. Nice job on the race. It was quite warm that morning.

From Chad Robinson on Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 13:53:59 from 50.73.39.89

Thanks Chad and Ryan. I figure I lost about 20 seconds thanks to my shoe. I actually found the weather rather agreeable relatively speaking. I will certainly be back next year.

From jtshad on Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 09:41:11 from 141.221.191.225

Congrats on the unaided PR! (Sorry I am just seeing this). That is a fun race, glad you got to run it again and get such a good time.

From Chad Robinson on Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 13:17:44 from 66.29.168.98

Thanks Jeff. They do a great job for such a low key race. I plan to run it again next year.

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