Artichoke's Running Blog (Ken Spence)

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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, Apr 03, 2010

Slow miles	Fast miles	Total Distance
2.00	4.00	6.00

6 miles in 53:17, very easy run. 8:53 average pace. Noon run to mouth of Middle Canyon and back via Jr. High. Weather guys said it was supposed to rain and snow overnight into this morning, but it's just been cloudy. I'm still glad I ran my long run yesterday, it was really a nice clear and sunny morning.

Asics 2150 Gold #1 Miles: 6.00

Comments

From Kelli on Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 17:15:07 from 71.219.92.128

How is the weather over there on the other side of the mountain?

From artichoke on Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 18:07:30 from 71.37.120.226

We dodged this one. Like you said, why watch those weather boys? We got 15" on Thursday and absolutely nothing today. That's not how the predictions went, I'm quite sure.

From Kelli on Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 21:01:00 from 71.219.92.128

15" in Tooele?? WOW, you guys got hammered. We ended up with maybe 6 or 7 and it is all melted now. It was quite the storm.

From artichoke on Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 23:07:53 from 71.37.120.226

It was quite a storm. I only measured a little over 13" on my lawn, but it was still snowing and I heard one report of about 15". That was as much as Park City. It's already melted down to about 3" or 4". At least spring snow melts fast.

From Kelli on Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 14:06:26 from 71.219.92.128

WOW, that is all I can say. you guys got nailed, but it does indeed melt fast!

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