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Snow Cyn Half-Marathon

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Best 10K: 2013 Spectrum 10K 40:34

Best Half Marathon: 2012 Dog Town 1:29:57

Best Marathon: 2013 St George 3:12:15

Best 50-miler 2012 8:36

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Miles:	This week:	11.00	Month:	69.30	Year:	161.30

Sat, Nov 07, 2009

Race: Snow Cyn Half-Marathon (13.1 Miles) 01:42:18, Place overall: 95, Place in age division: 13

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
0.00	13.10	0.00	0.00	13.10

Another PR race for me... Yeah!! The last 5 weeks have resulted in 3 PR races, the St George Marathon, Save-a-Sister 10K, and the Snow Cyn half-marathon. I did this race with walk breaks to see if my time could improve and also to save myself so I can run the Mesquite Marathon in 2 weeks. I beat my last PR by almost 4 minutes! I'm a believer in walk breaks!! The weather was perfect and Snow Cyn was absolutely beautiful!!!

Splits:

Mile1 = 7:19 STEEP down hill... I had the breaks on!

Mile 2 = 7:15 Still STEEP!!!

Mile 3 = 7:56 Rolling hills, mostly down, first walk break

Mile 4 = 8:06 mile 4 thru 7 was an out and back, 1 walk break

Mile 5 = 8:15 1 walk break

Mile 6 = 7:34 no walk break (downhill)

Mile 7 = 8:03 1 walk break

Mile 8 = 7:44 no walk break

Mile 9 = 7:49 1 walk break

Mile 10 = 7:56 1 walk break

Mile 11 = 8:04 1 walk break

Mile 12 = 7:48 no walk break

Mile 13 = 7:30 no walk break

Miles 10 thru 12 was rolling hills. I didn't take a walk break if there was a lot of downhill during that mile.

Comments

From scotthughes on Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 19:15:19 from 209.33.211.3

Nice job on the race! This is my first Half Marathon without any walk breaks. I have always taken walk breaks on all my races and training runs. This past month I decided to try longer runs without walking. I am now being converted to running without breaks. For me it was getting the endurance plus breathing working right. So after 16 months I am finally getting to that point.

My problem in the past was that I would go out too fast and would beat myself up and have to walk. Once you take a walk break it is so much easier to take another one....

Great job on the PR's. I have been on a nice run of PR's myself. It really makes you feel good. Good luck in Mesquite.....I have been battling back and forth whether I should run it or not. After today I am still not sure, the end of that course looks brutal to me.

From ben on Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 21:48:00 from 4.254.235.168

I am usually not a walker when I run, but I decided to try it out for this race to see if my wife was wrong. She was right again!!! When I PR the St George Marathon, I ran it straight through as always! I train with no walk breaks except when I do track/speed work.

Good Job on your 1:35 time. My next goal is to beat 1:40 for the half marathon in January. I am signing up for the utah grand slam 2010.

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