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Weber State Indoor Track Meet

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Location:

Provo,UT,USA

Member Since:

May 18, 2010

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

NCAA Champ

Running Accomplishments:

Pre-high school: I ran a lot of local 5ks and a few half marathons.  I didn't do a ton of training, but I just had fun, and I got more serious about it as high school got closer.

High school: I enjoyed running a lot, especially cross country.  I originally did track to keep my in shape for cross country.  I ran at Footlocker Nationals, the Adidas Dream mile, Brooks PR Invitational, world xc junior championships, and a few local 5ks. 

PRs: 800: 1:56.80-State Track 2014

1600: 4:10-State Track 2014/Mile: Sea Level-Adidas Grand Prix-4:07

3200:Alititude(~4500ft): 8:57.99-State Track 2014-2 Mile:8:53 at Brooks PR Invitational

5K: New Balance Indoor Nationals(2014) - 14:24

10K:USA Junior Track Championships (2014)-31:01

15K: Blacksmith Fork Freedom Run (aided) 48:10(2013).

Half Marathon: 
Utah Valley Half - 1:11:24(aided)(2012)

Post-mission:

1,500m-3:45

3k-7:50 

5k-13:29

10k-28:18

NCAA finishes:

Cross Country: 10th(2018);

Indoor: 3k-7th(2019) 5k-10th(2019);

Outdoor: 10k-22nd(2018), 4th(2019), 5k-7th(2019)

Long-Term Running Goals:

Make sure I have fun, not get burned out, and get faster.

School records in the 5km and 10km.  

Personal:

Served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints from July 2015-July 2017.  I gained 30 lbs. during the service and came back out of shape; however I knew that if the Lord wanted me to once again run competitively, he would bless me to return to fitness. 

I graduated from Sky View High School in Smithfield, Utah. I currently run for Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.  

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Race: Weber State Indoor Track Meet (2 Miles) 00:09:33, Place overall: 2, Place in age division: 2
Total Distance
9.00

    I woke up early and we drove for about an hour to get to the meet.  I did a few warm ups, because I didn't know when the race was going to start, above a gym on another "track."  I didn't really have any big goals in this race, except to get better then last week.

   3200-We started out, and my start was horrid, but it was the two mile, so it didn't matter much.  I caught up to the front by the time we went around it once.  I led for the next 10 or so laps.  Our first mile was 4:45, just like last week.  All my splits up to here were pretty even, mostly 35s, and some 36s.  After the mile mark, I started to slow though.  Jordon Cross passed me and led for the rest of the race.  On one of the turns someone wouldn't let me lap them and Jordon caught a bigger lead on me.  After that I just didn't want anyone else to pass me.  Most people had me at a 9:31 or :32, but the official time had me at 9:33.

  1600-4:37, 3rd place.  After a bunch of running for warming up and waiting, the race finally started I had the second fastest time coming into it, but my main goal was just to go faster than last week.  I knew that I could atleast do that with this field.  We started, and I got a great start.  I just stuck myself right behind Ricky Faure and Jordon Cross, because I thought Ricky Faure would run fast (he ran in the 4:20s last week indoors, but this track was a bit better, so I thought it would be faster.)  Our first 200m was 34/35.  Slower than it should've been.  We came across the 800m mark at 2:20.  That's my 2 mile pace.  I tried to make a move there and push the pace, but so did Jordan.  He told me I could go, so I did, and I ran in the lead for a lap after that.  After Jordan and Ricky passed me and I just was lazy and didn't think anyone would pass me, so I just kept the pace I had at the first.  Jordan won it, and Ricky took 2nd.  Jordan ran a 2:08/:09 last 800, while I ran a 2:17.  I ran negative splits for the first time ever for me, but I'm disappointed how this race turned out.  I don't have another one for a few weeks, so I'll have something to build on. Afterward I did a long cool down with Chuk.

   Later PM-Ran 2 miles around my uncles neighborhood to put in a few more miles.

Comments
From Jake K on Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 16:33:29 from 98.165.228.80

Good races Conner.

From PRE on Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 21:00:35 from 99.50.213.11

Conner,

Hi. I agree with Jake - Good races. I'm looking at the numbers for the mile and the splits. It's all complicated trying to figure out what happened. The first 200 meters is slow. The three top people hit 800 meters at 2:20 which is slow (I think you are saying when you say it is your 2 mile pace). So it is looking like to me everyone is trying to go slower up front to conserve energy to negative split the mile and treating the last 800 or 400 meters as the race! I'm not sure about all this. But I'm pretty sure elites have a lot more to think about than me when it comes to tactics and strategy! Congratulations on the negative split.

From Conner Mantz on Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:12:31 from 65.130.231.105

Thanks!

From Michael Finch on Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:32:40 from 75.169.211.149

those are good times conner! wow.

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