Sean's Running Blog

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Location:

Snoqualmie,WA,

Member Since:

Feb 24, 2007

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

2011 Boston Marathon -- 2:27 (Top 50)
2011 Steilacoom 20k -- 1:04:57 (1st)
2010 Indianapolis Monumental Marathon -- 2:26 (7th)
2010 Fall City 10k -- 31:06 (1st)
2009 Indy Mini Marathon -- 1:07:53 (7th)
2009 WWU Invitational -- 10000m (30:58)
2009 UW Indoor Meet -- 5000m (14:49)
2008 Orem Turkey Run -4 miler -- 19:55 (1st)
2008 Seafair Torchlight 8k--25:03 (3rd)
2008 Time to Fly 5k -- 15:35 (1st)
2008 Newport Marathon -- 2:22:47 (1st)
Steilacoom 15M--1:18:30 (1st)
2007 Olympic Trials -- 2:30:41 (91st)
2007 St. George --2:18:55 (3rd)

Short-Term Running Goals:

Feb 23 -- Ft Steilacoom 15M
March 23 – Ft. Steilacoom 20k
April 15 – Boston Marathon
June 8 – Sound to Narrows 12k
June 22 – Grandma’s Half Marathon (USATF Champs.)
July 7 – Run of the Mill 5k
July 27 – Torchlight 8k
September – SJJ Half (maybe)
October/November – Fall Marathon (maybe)
December – Club XC Nationals

Long-Term Running Goals:

Stay healthy

Personal:

Ran track my junior and senior years in high school and cross country my senior year. Went to BYU but did not run. Served LDS church mission to San Bernardino, CA. Started running again in April 2005. Marathon debut was St. George in 2005.

I coach the Mount Si High School Track Team (distance)

Been married for almost 17 years. My wife, Mara, and I have four kids ages 16, 14, 13 and 11.

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Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	0.00
Brooks T5 Lifetime Miles:						34.00
Ravenna Lifetime Miles:						250.00

Mon, Jun 21, 2010

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
17.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	17.00

Nice and easy 17 miles this morning while my wife's car got her brakes replaced. Still cloudy and cool but at least it didn't rain. The forecast for the RnR Half is cool and wet. They just sent me the list of elites...looks more impressive than last year...with the exception of Paul not being on the list. The real bummer is they gutted the local money. Only the top WA finisher gets cash: $500 and that will be Mr. Drew Polley barring something very unforeseen.

Patrick Rizzo

Schaumburg / IL

Patrick was 2^nd here last year and went on to claim tenth at the Chicago Marathon in the fall of 2009. Lives and trains in Boulder, Colorado. His PR is 1.05.34 was set on this course last year. 10^th place at last years Chicago Marathon.

Andrew Letherby

Australia

2.11.42 PR for the marathon which set in Berlin, 2005. His 63.17 PR for the half was achieved last year in Japan. Andrew has represented Australia at World Championship and Commonwealth Games, claiming the bronze medal in 2002 in Manchester.

Luke Humphrey

Sidney / MI

Part of Brooks Hansons Distance Project. His half marathon PR is 64.05. Luke finished third at the half marathon in Arizona earlier this year

Drew Polley

Port Orchard / WA

Part of Brooks Hansons Distance Project. Washington State University. NCAA Qualifier in Cross Country. All-West Region in Cross Country. 3 time Pac-10 All-Academic first team selection. Finished fourth last year in his debut half and then 1^st American in San Antonio in his debut full. PR for the half is 66.44.

Uli Steidl

Shoreline / WA

Uli became a US citizen in February this year. He has represented his native Germany at the World Championship in Osaka. His marathon PR is 2.13.56. Won the Seattle Marathon on 8 occasions 1999-2006

Sage Canaday

Sheridan / OR

Part of Brooks Hansons Distance Project. 2-time NCAA DI All-Northeast Region, Individual NCAA qualifier from Cornell University. Sage was the youngest qualifier for the Olympic Trials with a marathon time. His PR is 2.21.23.

Chad Johnson

Chetek / WI

Part of Brooks Hansons Distance Project. Chad won the Disney Half marathon in January and went on to finish 19^th at Boston Marathon earlier this year. His PR for the half marathon is 64.01

Sean Sundwall*

Snoqualmie, WA

Sean finished 7^th last year in the inaugural race.

Joe Darda

Seattle / WA

Targeting 68 minutes for the half this year. Joe finished 9^th in the full here last year.

Ian Nurse

Portland / OR

Hoping to improve in his PR of 1.09.01 which he set in 2008 in his home town Portland.

Travis Boyd *

Seattle / WA

Travis was fifth overall in the marathon last year.

Destry Johnson *

Puyallup / WA

Destry was 8^th last year at the inaugural race.

Brooks Adrenaline (Green) Miles: 17.00

Weight: 0.00

Comments

From Paul on Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 19:55:09 from 65.103.252.214

Definitely a better field than last year, although a few guys were no-shows last year (including Paul Tergat), so who knows this year. I've seen Drew Polley post some impressive times over the past year. I talked to him for quite a while last year during dinner before the race, seems like a nice guy, lot of potential. Interesting factoid about Andrew Leatherby is that he won the Des News 10K a couple years ago. Sub-28, I think.

RnR is not a blazing fast course, but it's not slow either. I think you can run pretty fast there.

From DaveL on Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 15:10:58 from 209.206.250.53

Your Fall City race should have made a good shakedown weather wise as it looks like it'll be about the same for the RnR. Good luck!

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