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Koloa Sugar Mill 10 mile

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Location:

Kalaheo,HI,USA

Member Since:

Oct 20, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

High School

  • 800M = 2:00
  • 1600M = 4:30
  • 3200 M = 9:50
  • 5K = 16:20

College

  • Can't remember, didn't run for the college.

Post College

  • 10K = 36:30
  • 8 miles - 46:11

Short-Term Running Goals:

  • 5k = <17 min
  • 10K = <36 min

Upcoming race schedule

Long-Term Running Goals:

Keep running, maybe an Ironman someday?

Personal:

I live in Kauai, Hawaii with my wife and 3 kids.  I ran x-country and track in high school. I had too much fun in college and never tried out for the teams. I graduated from BYU Provo.

My wife's blog is http://hulagirlclark.blogspot.com

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Asics Nimbus 17 Lifetime Miles: 608.85
Mizuno Wave Lifetime Miles: 719.85
Mizuno Wave 2 Lifetime Miles: 233.65
Race: Koloa Sugar Mill 10 mile (10 Miles) 01:09:00, Place overall: 1, Place in age division: 1
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
0.300.0011.300.0011.60

Today was the sugar mill 10 mile.  There are only 3 races on Kauai a year so I of course get excited for all of them and pick up the training for the races.  I wasn't able to train as much as I would have liked, but it was sufficient.

So my goal was sub 1 hour or 6 minute miles.  At mile 4 I was like 23:30 so on pace and way ahead of everyone.  There was supposed to be a race helper person at the turnaround point telling everyone to turn around.  Well, he wasn't there when I got to the turn around so I ran approx an extra 1.3 miles in around 8 minutes.  So my race was really 11.3 miles.  The road ended so I turned around and on the way back the race helper guy was there who I yelled at (I could have been a little nicer but that screwed up 1 of only 3 races on this island!).  It turns out I was the only one that ran the extra distance.  I got focused again and just started picking off people and found out with 2 miles to go there was only 2 people ahead.  I passed #2 and with about 250m to go was close to #1.  I tried to sprint but almost puked so I had to slow down a little.  The #1 guy slowed down too which made it even easier to sprint by him with 100m to go.

So I'm happy I still won and got a gift certificate for gas.  I'm dissapointed I don't know my actual time but oh well.  11.3 miles in 1:09 would probably mean I would have been under my 1 hour goal.

Asic Speedsters Miles: 11.60
Comments
From Jon on Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 17:54:19 from 66.255.187.98

Nice job with the win, especially since you had to catch everyone towards the end. Bummer about the missing turn-around guy, but it just made your victory that much more memorable, right?

From Jon on Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 18:25:47 from 66.255.187.98

Hey, just curious- have you ever done the Kauai marathon? Or is it new? I saw it is in Sept 2010.

From Nic on Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 18:40:06 from 66.8.133.227

Thanks. You did amazing at your 50 miler too. My goal for 2011 is to run the Western States 100. It runs right past my parents home in CA. I know I'll have to pick up the training significantly. Yes, the Kauai Marathon is new. 2009 was the first year. I didn't do it because I wasn't training for a marathon but also because it's on Sunday. I tried to get the RD to change the day to Saturday but we wouldn't budge. You coming to Kauai?

From Jon on Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 14:03:38 from 128.217.211.62

As much as we would enjoy another trip to Kauai for a marathon, I'll be doing the Bear 100 in Sept. Sounds like we'll both be training for 100's.

From cgbooth23 on Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 17:55:33 from 67.136.44.51

Hey great job on the race and what a finish... where did the race start? When we were down there I noticed the mile markers for the marathon when I'd go out for early morning runs around Poipu!

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