{"id":1254,"date":"2009-04-08T07:48:51","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T12:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/?p=1254"},"modified":"2009-04-08T07:48:51","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T12:48:51","slug":"race-plan-fred-kurz-10-miler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2009\/race-plan-fred-kurz-10-miler\/","title":{"rendered":"Race Plan: Fred Kurz 10 Miler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My training plan calls for a 15k race this week.\u00a0 The closest I can find is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raceberryjam.com\/kurz.html\">Fred Kurz Memorial 10 mile<\/a> race hosted by my running club &#8211; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.runmdra.org\">MDRA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The race is only $5 for members and $8 for everyone else.\u00a0 Membership does have its rewards! When I sent in my registration I didn&#8217;t realize this was a handicapped race.\u00a0 Slow runners will start first and then we will all finish about the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the times I submitted (late):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Human Race 8k\u00a0 2009 &#8211; 33:03\u00a0 (6:38)<br \/>\nGiving Thanks 5k &#8211; 20:01\u00a0 (6:26)<br \/>\nUSATF-MN 10k XC &#8211; 43:09\u00a0 (6:56)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The official entry says they will use the &#8220;&#8221;world-renowned&#8221; Lanin Guessimetric Method (implemented by Rick Recker)&#8221;. My research showed no handicap method with that name &#8211; so I&#8217;m guess it is a super special formula of guessing. We shall see.<\/p>\n<p>My last and only 10 mile run was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2007\/race-day-dino-series-5\/\">DINO Trail race<\/a> in Indianapolis.\u00a0 My time for that was 1:19:11 (7:55) so hopefully I can beat that!\u00a0 My current <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2008\/race-review-mdra-15k\/\">15K PR<\/a> is 1:03:24 (6:48) which would be right where I want to run on Saturday.\u00a0\u00a0 Based on that my <strong>goal will be to run 1:08 for 10 miles<\/strong>.\u00a0 Based on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raceberryjam.com\/fredkurz10.html\">2008 results <\/a>this would place me pretty high overall (8th) and win my 10 year age group.<\/p>\n<p>The Fred Kurz race will be an out and back along the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.herald-journal.com\/luceline\/pages\/main.html\">Luce Line Trail<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnr.state.mn.us\/state_trails\/luce_line\/index.html\">DNR<\/a>) starting in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wayzata.org\/\">Wayzata, MN<\/a>.\u00a0 The site says it is hard packed clay. However, there is currently construction on this segment of the Luce Line and all the site say is a &#8220;modified course&#8221; so that should be interesting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who is Fred Kurz?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From the race website:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fred Kurz was a charter member of the Minnesota Distance Running Association. A resident of St. Paul, he attended Murray High School and the University of Chicago. He was killed in a bicycle-automobile accident in 1963. This race in his memory is the oldest continuously held running event in Minnesota.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[tags] Fred Kurz, 10 Mile, Wayzata [\/tags]<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Zemified by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/5f520642-1233-4e76-a34d-18f1c722fbea\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?w=625\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My training plan calls for a 15k race this week.\u00a0 The closest I can find is the Fred Kurz Memorial 10 mile race hosted by my running club &#8211; the MDRA. The race is only $5 for members and $8 for everyone else.\u00a0 Membership does have its rewards! When I sent in my registration I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[436,13,271],"tags":[163,151,154,437,62,134],"class_list":["post-1254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10-mile","category-my-running","category-race-plan","tag-minneapolis-minnesota","tag-minneapolis-saint-paul","tag-minnesota","tag-murray-high-school","tag-running","tag-usa-track-field"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4iaAv-ke","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1263,"url":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2009\/race-review-fred-kurz-10-mile\/","url_meta":{"origin":1254,"position":0},"title":"Race Review: Fred Kurz 10 Mile","author":"crossn81","date":"April 14, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Almost another perfect day for a spring race made for a pretty good race for me.\u00a0 According to my race plan I was hoping to finish in 1:08 which would have been quite excellent.\u00a0 I actually passed the halfway mark in 34 minutes (and change) but knew I was struggling\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;10 Mile&quot;","block_context":{"text":"10 Mile","link":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/category\/10-mile\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"\/running\/images\/fredkurzelevation.jpg","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":810,"url":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2009\/usatf-mn-teamchampionship-schedule\/","url_meta":{"origin":1254,"position":1},"title":"USATF-MN Team\/Championship Schedule","author":"crossn81","date":"February 11, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"The 2009 USATF-MN Team Circuit and Championship Race Schedule was voted on awhile back.\u00a0 Here is the schedule: March 22nd St. Patrick\u2019s Day Human Race 8k \u2013 St. Paul USATF Minnesota 8k Championship\u00a0 Last year's review I ran a 31:27 which is a post-college PR. 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