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Location:

Rock Springs,Wy,

Member Since:

Aug 26, 2012

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

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 I ran for Utah State University for a few years from 1999-2002. I got a little burned out and took a break from running. Now 10 years later, I feel that there is still faster running left to accomplish. I started running again in mid-summer of 2012. I had a short spurt in 2009, but work got in the way.

 PRs: Non-Aided

5K 15:53

8K 26:51

 Marathon 2:45:24 Boston 2015

Aided PRs: 

5K 15:50

10K 31:47

15K 52:25 (Blacksmith Fork Freedom Run 1999)

Half Marathon 1:16:28 SLC Haunted Half 2015

Marathon 2:38:12

I have ran 7 marathons and averaged = 2:51:58

Short-Term Running Goals:

Run a sub 17:00 5K again

2:45 Marathon

3000 miles in 2013

2013 Race Schedule:

St. Patrick's Day 5K 3/16 1st Place 17:22

Famous Idaho Potato Marathon 5/18 3rd Place 2:52:20

St. George Marathon 10/5 2:45:45

2014 Race Schedule:

Gold Rush Half Marathon 3/15 1st Place  1:21:11

Poultney Chili Cook-Off 5K 9/27  1st Place 16:59

Turkey Trot 11/27

2015 Race Schedule: 

Boston Marathon 4/20/15 2:45:24

Run the Runway 3rd place

Huntsville Marathon 9/26/15 5th place. Took a chance and went out too fast. 2:53:19

Haunted Half SLC 10/24/15 3rd place 1:16:28

2016 Race Schedule:

Phoenix Marathon 2/27/16 2:51

Revel Mt. Charlston Marathon 5/7/16

St. George Marathon 10/1/16

Long-Term Running Goals:

Sub 2:35 Marathon 

Personal:

I am married and have a 5 year old little boy and a 2 year old little girl. I graduated from USU in aviation and worked as a pilot for many years. After subsequential furloughs and lay-offs due to the economy, I decided to go back to school. I then graduated from the nursing program at Boise State University. I now fly the University of Utah AirMed (Lifeflight) airplane base in Rock Springs WY.

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Race: SLC Haunted Half (13.1 Miles) 01:16:28, Place overall: 3, Place in age division: 1
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
2.000.000.0013.1015.10

Happy with my race today. Was 3rd place to Brett Hales and Sam Starbuck. The course seemed long. I got 13.29 and a few others got about the same. I know GPS watched are not not 100% accurate. However, as a pilot I trust my life to precision GPS approaches. I need a new GPS watch. I have an old brick Garmin 305. Any segestions? I am thinking Garmin 620 or 220. I wore a Forrest Gump costume. I even kept it on the costume (beard, mustache, hair & hat) on the whole time. I will post a picture and more info later.

This was a big PR for me. I have not run that many 1/2 marathons.

I started off  in 2nd place behind Brett for about .25miles then 2 guys started picking it up. I stuck it behind them and they steeded up a little and I didn't thing it was a good idea to go with them. The forst girl was a few steps behind me and we stayed like this for a about 3 miles and I thought that i was in a good position to get 4th. I started droping the girl and the number 2 and 3 guys started to seperate. about mile 5 I was ganing on number 3 and 2 was about 45 sec ahead. miles 6 or 7 I caught the one guy and he was hurting. I felt pretty good through mile 9 or 10 and I got into the rolling hills where I started to fulter. 2nd place was maybe just over a min ahead and I thought that i secured 3rd place. At mile 11 I just was thinking to atleast hold marathon pace and I might break 1:16. I have a hard time pushing at this point in races when nobody is around. At 12.5 I hit hill at sugarhouse park on the South side and I slowed down here then I tried to push it in to the finsh. I was happy and a little bit dissapointed that at my time. My goal was sub 1:17 and I got that. I just wish that I would have had someone tailing me through the last few miles to push me. 

I felt really good after and felt like I could have given a little more if needed. 

Spints: 5:39, 5:35, 5:37, 5:36, 5:41, 5:39, 5:37, 5:36, 5:37, 5:51, 5:54, 6:01, 6:15, and 1:44 for .29

Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
Comments
From RileyCook on Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 13:15:36 from 73.52.134.194

I have the Garmin 610 and it's very rare for a half marathon in Utah to be anything less than 13.2 GPS-measured. 13.2 is usually what certified courses yield on GPS, for what it's worth.

Nice race and congrats on 3rd place. That's $100 right?

From Ryan Achatz on Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 18:30:29 from 67.2.18.165

Yes Riley I got $100 which payed for the race and a bit extra. I talked to Brett for a little while. Thanks for all the advice you have been giving me. I feel like I am so close to more big PRs in the 1/2 and full before I get too old. Turning 38 this week.

I will post pictures when I get home to Rock Springs. Had a fun but busy weekend. Spent time with my grandma visiting for MD, went to Provo to see my sister new baby and had a combined Bday party for my sister and I.

From Jason D on Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 18:52:34 from 68.80.27.222

I have a 620, but I don't use half the features on it. The vibrate feature is nice, but the 220 also has this (if you've ever run a race with a bunch of watches beeping this eliminates any question that's it you).

The recovery adviser function is a joke. It's designed for hobby joggers. That's an extra feature the 620 has that the 220 doesn't have. I think the 220 is the way to go for the money. The other features need to be refined for them to be useful.

I've never run a certified half that has come up long except for a course that was rush re-certified due to flooding. The course was definitely long.

However, I notice that most folks in Utah will regularly get closer to the 13.2 mark. That's likely a good thing because a course should measure slightly long given that certifiers measure long (I forget the percentage) for margin of error in the event a record takes place and the course is found to be short. You can read about the London Olympic Marathon measuring process in the link below. I have no idea if all certifiers use the same method but it's interesting:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304765304577479061991721208

Congrats on the PR and the chunk o' change!

From Sasha Pachev on Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 17:51:50 from 192.168.1.1

It is rather ironic that a GPS can be trusted for aviation, but for running. The reason is that the GPS can tell you where you are with the precision of 10 or so feet. For aviation it is usually good enough. For running, you want to know ho far you went, not where you are. So suppose we sample once a second. Consider something like this - a possible scenario for at least a part of your run. You are running in a straight line. First sample comes out to be 10 feet to the right of you, second sample 10 feet to the left. Let's say you are running 5:20 per mile, so 16.5 feet per second. In one second you have actually run 16.5 feet, but the GPS will think sqrt(20^2+16.5^2) so it comes out to about 25.9, or about 57% error in just one measurement that will never be compensated later on.

If you are moving at car speeds, or even better, airplane speeds, the error drops significantly because 10 feet is a small number compared to the distance you can travel during the sample window (1 second).

In practice things are not quite that bad all the time, but a couple of fairly short lasting glitches that fall within the normal operation of the GPS specifications are sufficient to add 1% distance overall even when the signal is perfect and you are running straight. When you are not running straight and on top of it there is interference and the signal gets distorted, we can see much higher deviations.

So GPS, when it comes to running, is not a precise instrument, and in spite of all the advanced technology, does not and will not for a long time be close to the good old wheel measurement and landmark marking method. Which is why USATF and other organizations insist on the low-tech method of course certification.

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