SOJO Marathon - Trevor Baker

Overall Place: 1st
Division Place: 1st
Overall Time: 2:39:12

South Jordan Marathon

This was the first marathon I ran in my career, one year ago.  I had a comped entry in from last year, but didn't plan on really running it as I was doing SGM 2 weeks ago.  Honestly I had no desire to run 26.2 miles today.  It was just work.  As a grad student 300 dollars goes a long way...  Legs have recovered nicely since SG, but haven't had much training the past 2 weeks.  The goal was 1 fold, win...  I wasn't thinking about how fast I wanted to go but rather, how slow could I run to not create more wear and tear on my body and especially staying injury free.  If at any point, something wasn't right, or I had unexpected pain, I was out, would drop out, make a call to get picked up and be done.  Looking at the participants that registered, there was a redshirt from the Y running and Jason Howe who ran 2:35 in SG and has ran several 2:40-2:45 marathons locally in years past.  I figured he'd probably be tired from SG too so 2:45-50 would prob be where we landed.

Not much to say about it, but it went totally according to plan just a little faster than I'd hoped.  Race got out and by mile 2 Jason Howe had separated from the field and I ran 10-15 meters off of him through 13.1.  Temp was cool, but seemed to warm up quick.  Through Herrriman it was just smooth sailing keying of of Jason and the pace cop.  I hit the half marathon in 1:19:46 about 3 seconds behind Jason.  We cruised through Daybreak and my calves were starting to tighten up a bit.  I just monitored how my body was feeling through everything and if anything wasn't right, no biggie.  Things just kept firing well though, didn't feel like I was laboring just felt like I was out for a run with Matt, Mike and Nate.  Took the next steep downhill really light not to get my calves mad and started pulling up on Jason more.  His lead was about 5 meters the rest of the way.  There was a few times where I tried running side by side, but he kept pulling ahead and wanted to lead, so I let him.  With 2 miles to go, I could feel the effort inc on the Jordan River Trail.  I just focused on hanging on.  Legs were tired, but I felt like I could drop the pace at any point.  With one to go the effort increased even more and I just held on side by side at this point and with 200m to go I kicked it in and won by 11 seconds in 2:39:12.  I'm amazed that Jason was able to run 4 mins off his PR from SG 2 weeks later and pretty much doing it alone.  He ran great today.

Little slower than last year, but in much better shape and I'll recover well from it I think.  I'm going to turn my focus towards school a little more.  I'll keep up training with our Lehi group/UT county crew and start planning for next year.

Splits	Time
1	6:15.3
2	5:47.7
3	5:48.9
4	6:12.5
5	6:18.5
6	7:08.1
7	6:11.9
8	5:46.3
9	5:51.4
10	5:44.6
11	6:01.6
12	6:05.5
13	5:59.2
14	6:09.6
15	6:12.6
16	5:54.8
17	6:23.8
18	6:03.0
19	6:01.8
20	6:22.1
21	6:03.6
22	6:00.3
23	6:00.4
24	5:56.1
25	6:07.2
26	5:59.4
27	0:46.7