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WA,

Member Since:

Feb 10, 2007

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

I was an 800/1500 runner in high school and college, with PRs of 1:55 and 4:08. I've run as fast as 16:15 for 5k and 1:20 for a half, but my bests in recent years are 17:07 5k (Dec. '11), 37:40 10k (Jan. '12), 1:23:49 half (Sept. '08), 2:53:12 marathon (September '10), and 4:45:06 50k (March '10).

Short-Term Running Goals:

Late 2015/2016 races: 

— Seattle Soltice 10k (Dec. 19)

— Nookachamps half marathon (Jan. 16)

— Toyko Marathon (Feb. 28) 

Personal:

I'm an editor at a newspaper in Bremerton, Washington and head coach of the Bremerton Jaguars youth track and field team.

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Total Distance
18.00

The 18 is a little bit of a guess, but it was a long day out there. Krissy organizes the Chuckanut 50k that I'm signed up for in March, so we stayed up in Skagit Valley and went to run the middle 18 miles of the race course. A crowd of 12 showed up, so we had a good crew, and unexpectedly the rain held off (a little blue sky, even). 

A lot of climbing and rolling back downhill, it's a course with some good elevation and great terrain. The hiccup was that one girl fell way back, and lost from the trail. So we broke up into smaller search party crews for an hour or so. We found her eventually, then took back to the course and ran part of it backwards (still found the signature hill and hiked up it, whew). Good run though.

Even coming off a race day, my legs felt pretty good after the first few minutes of getting the blood going. I did hit a fatigue wall at about 2:30, just didn't fuel enough and was a little lightheaded heading up Chinscraper Hill. But I pounded a few bars at the top and got another wind to finish. I don't think running the 50k will be a problem fitness-wise, given how I felt, but I'll need to pay close attention to fueling.

About 4:30 total, but maybe 45 minutes or more we were stopped trying to find that girl (or come up with a plan to find her). So I'll call it 3:30, probably on the conservative side. 

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Comments
From Jon on Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 21:57:11 from 75.169.151.245

Wait- do you regularly run with Krissy Moehl???

From David Nelson on Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:00:04 from 24.22.231.57

I'm dating her. So yeah, we run together. I told her about you and your Rocky Raccoon coming up.

From Jon on Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:34:34 from 138.64.8.51

Wow, that's pretty cool. I've never met her, obviously, but she's one of the most famous and accomplished ultra runners today. I could tell from your race calendar/goals that you're transitioning to more trails/ultras- I imagine running with someone like her could have that result. Have fun with everything. Just curious- does she beat you in races?

I've thought of running the Mt. Rainier Wonderland trail- I'll invite you if I ever do. But do have to get through RR100 next month- hopefully that goes well.

From David Nelson on Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 11:09:10 from 24.22.231.57

I'd love to run the Wonderland. If you set up for this summer count me in. Take care of those hips for Rocky Racoon. Hope it goes well.

From Jon on Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 01:37:23 from 75.169.157.10

I have a sister in Seattle, a college roommate in Bremerton, and a sis-in-law in Spokane, so I'm sure we'll make the trip up there sometime soon- maybe this year, maybe next. I'll let you know when/if it happens. Although my wife may not be a huge fan of me taking a few days away from the trip to run :)

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