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Location:

Tooele & Ivins,UT,USA

Member Since:

Oct 30, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Age Division Winner

Running Accomplishments:

St. George Marathon 20-year Club (completed 26)

Boston Marathon 2006, 2007, 2008, 2016, 2017 (+DNF 2011)

Running for 39 years, logged 58,000 miles since 1982. 38 marathons.

Old Man PR's:

5K = 19:58 - July 4th Freedom Run 7/4/08

6K = 26:38 - Cold Turkey Rrrun, 11/23/06

10K = 43:00 - Deseret News, 7/24/08

1/2 Marathon = 1:32:54 - Hobble Creek, 8/23/08

Marathon = 3:23:13 - St. George, 10/4/08 (Boston Qualifier)

Boston Best: 3:35:07, 4/21/08 (Boston Qualifier)

Boston Worst:  DNF, 4/18/11 

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

Keep running!

Long-Term Running Goals:

Keep running for another 20 years.

Personal:

Married for 44 years to a wonderful and supportive wife. She's run 2 marathons herself in our earlier years so that helps.  4 boys, all married, and 10 grandchildren.  2 sons are runners. I celebrated 39 years of running madness, insanity, or at least OCD, on August 23rd, 2021. 

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Nike Free Lifetime Miles: 22.50
Saucony Peregrine Trail Lifetime Miles: 318.15
Asics 2000 Aqua #2 Lifetime Miles: 419.50
Asics 2000 Aqua #3 Lifetime Miles: 393.10
Asics 2000 Gray/Yellow Lifetime Miles: 610.30
Saucony Peregrine Trail #2 Lifetime Miles: 168.40
Asics 2000 Aqua #4 Lifetime Miles: 355.00
Sat, Jan 01, 2011
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
10.000.0010.00

10 miler at 10:30 a.m.  Solo on New Year's Day.  15 degrees, partly sunny.  Icy, slick roads except for Main St. and lower Skyline.  Tooele east bench got 14" of snow yesterday.  What a mess!  Wore my pull over spikes and lost one twice, but was able to retrieve them.  Pretty slow running.  Dressed pretty warm.  Hamstring did okay. 34 miles this week.

Asics 2150 Gold #3 Miles: 10.00
Comments
From Kelli on Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 17:13:10 from 71.219.84.215

CRAZY COLD WEATHER!!! Way to tough it out, lost spikes and all.

HAPPY NEW YEAR, hope this next one is a good one for you and the hamstring just bugs off!

From artichoke on Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 15:33:19 from 97.126.184.10

Thanks, Kelli. Hope you have another fantastic year! It's been extremely inspiring to me to follow your improvement. Keep it up! Hope to meet you and Scott at the top of the Oquirrh's someday.

From Kelli on Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 21:30:26 from 71.219.84.215

You are far too kind!

I would love to attempt to run up and over that mountain, but, seriously, I KNOW there are mountain lions up there. I KNOW IT!

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