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Location:

Eatonville,WA,USA

Member Since:

Nov 01, 2007

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Age Division Winner

Running Accomplishments:

Short-Term Running Goals:

Regain consistency.

Build up slowly and come out strong.

Regain "speed" (relative)

Finish WR50 again.

Improve at Cascade Crest. 

2013 Races:

  • Capital Peak Mega Fat Ass 17M (1/19) - 2:48:48
  • Yakima Skyline Rim 50K (4/21) - 7:16:20
  • Grey Rock 50K (5/13)
  • White River 50M (7/27)
  • Cascade Crest 100M (8/24-25)

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

Find my true running potential, then exceed it.

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Hoka Stinson B Lifetime Miles: 982.34
Hoka Stinson Evo Lifetime Miles: 452.95
Altra Provision Lifetime Miles: 139.73
Altra Torin Lifetime Miles: 380.08
Hoka Bondi 2 Lifetime Miles: 706.15
Hoka Mafate 3 Lifetime Miles: 81.12
Race: Geoduck Gallop (13.1 Miles) 01:25:53, Place overall: 7, Place in age division: 2
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
1.500.0013.600.0015.10

2 mile easy warmup w/ 0.5 miles @ tempo pace (~ 6:20/mi).  13.1 miles in 1:25:53, 6:33/mi, HR 171.

Weather was decent: overcast and 45F at the start.  Race began 30 minutes late when three times the expected crowd showed up for race day registration.  Good for me, since it gave me more time to do a decent warmup.  Highlight of the race was getting directed off course...race director briefing at the start said to "follow the person in front of you" and the "white arrows" marking the course.  Well, unfortunately, there were some white arrows that looked identical to the course markings that sent virtually everyone off course at one of two spots.  In fact, the lead bicyclist, who'd marked the course, nearly got confused enough to go off course.  Anyway, it wasn't a big detour (my post-race map recon shows a 0.35 mi add in my case....some people cut nearly a half-mile off).  In any event, the course felt fast anyway, and garmin showed a 13.0 course *with* the detour. 

The first miles felt fast....according to the course markers, I was through 1 mile in 6:02 (6:06 garmin) and 2 miles in 12:26 (12:41 garmin), so I'm seriously doubting those were accurate, but I probably went out too fast.  I felt good through 4 miles, okay through 9 and survived the last 4.1....legs felt tired more than I felt the aerobic strain.  Took a gel at 9 but was wishing they had more water stops (only 1 that I found, but I passed it twice). 

My goal going in was to try to hit 6:30 miles as long as possible and run between 1:24 - 1:26, so I made that goal.  I managed to beat my previous time from 2 years ago (1:26:15).  If I take my average speed over the section where I added the extra mileage, I lost 2 minutes and 12 seconds, so that would've been good for a 1:23:41, which would've been a PR, but again, I think the course was short so my time was probably a bit more accurate.  All in all, happy to run the race that I did.  Now to recover while watching the Super Bowl.

NB 905 Miles: 15.10
Night Sleep Time: 8.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 8.50
Comments
From Burt on Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 18:48:46 from 98.177.216.165

Great job! Poorly marked courses are a bummer, but what can you do? Go Colts!

From Snoqualmie on Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 11:15:50 from 24.18.192.33

Congratulations! I hope they fix that course problem; I'd like to run this one someday! You did a great job and it's nice to see your time came down, in spite of the 2009 set back!

From Tom on Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 18:28:27 from 137.65.56.16

Nice job Dale, congrats on hitting your goal. Based on your comment.... "I felt good through 4 miles, okay through 9 and survived the last 4.1".. looks like you paced it just about right as I've always been told if you run a 1/2 correctly, the last 4 or 5 miles should hurt pretty good.

From Mattrow on Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 10:42:35 from 138.64.8.51

Nice race, Beating two years ago time after your set back. I think your back.

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