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Ogden Marathon 2019

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Location:

Salt Lake City,UT,

Member Since:

Apr 19, 2009

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

25 Marathons PR 3:16:08 Ogden Marathon 2014

1st marathon DesNews 2003  4:19 

Freedom 5K July 4th, 2010 18:26 (aided)

Desert News 10K July 24th, 2010 39:11 (aided)

Boston Marathon 2011 3:32:58 

Boston Marathon 2014 3:18:45

Short-Term Running Goals:

Run well at Boston 2020

Personal:

54 years old, married, love long runs on the road.

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Race: Ogden Marathon 2019 (26.2 Miles) 03:23:12, Place overall: 85, Place in age division: 4
Total Distance
26.20

Left the house at 3:45 pm, parked at the hotel, everything fine.  Woke up about 1:15pm

Hard rain driving to the race, light rain at the staging area, significantly subsided just before the start.  I dressed perfectly for this, thin tights, new white, Huntsville rain jacket, head gloves, Boston headband and SLCTC hat.  No issues at all.  rained almost the entire race, wind was not a factor. 

My timex died at about mile 20 from wetness.  Garmin was fine but my garmin splits are off.  Close, but off.  I started the race with the 3:15 pace group, hung with them all the way to 13.1, had to hit a porta potty.  Only burned about 1:15 in there.  I was on my own the rest of the way.  My pace was about 7:30 all the way to mile 17.  The hill ~ 14-and 15 was a high 7.  I lost about 1:50 minutes in the porta poty at 17.  Had a strong pace down the canyon, High 7:20s and 7:30s.  Had to porta potty again at 20.  Lost at least 2:50.   Very depressed at this point, thought I wouldn't be able to get a fast enough BQ to assure entry.  Legs were feeling bad at this point but i was still holding 7:30s.  I calculated that I could still hit 3:22 - 3:23 if I could hold it so I kept digging deep.  I held it  to mile 24, finished 7:59 and 7:50 last two miles.

splits from garmin

1  7.09

2  7.13

3  7.13

4  7.08

5  7.13

6  7.17

7  7.13

8  7.22

9  7.36

10  7.24

11  7.27

12  7.25

13  7.30

14  8.40

15  7.48

16  7.30

17  7.50

18  9.24

19  7.33

20  10.20

21  7.30

22  7.34

23  7.29

24  7.37

25  7.59

26  7.50

27.43  3.13  garmin almost a quater mile off

 

A few other runners have said they swear by imodium.  I'm going to check it out and try it.  I would have run maybe 3:18:32 if I could have avoided the last two porta potty stops.  That would have given me a 3rd place finish and sub 3:19, which was my top goal.  I'll live with the 3:23, knowing I kind of ran at 3.18.32.  New BQ standards this year, need 3:25.  In 2018 the standard was 3:30 but you had to be 4:09 faster.  I think my 3.23.12 gets me in.

I was about 30 seconds faster than last year, which was a goal.

Soucony A6 Miles: 26.20
Comments
From Donald Davis on Sat, May 18, 2019 at 22:49:50 from 64.9.239.146

Weather turned out pretty good today. Great job hanging in there till the end!

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