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Wasatch Back Relay - Legs 1, 13, 25

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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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Race: Wasatch Back Relay - Legs 1, 13, 25 (20.2 Miles) 02:35:42
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RAGNAR Wasatch Back Relay Friday and early Saturday.  Team: Green Eggs and Sam.  A fun time in Van #1.  I was runner #1 starting at 6:00 a.m.  Nice weather and great running.  We finished in 31:14:27 which was 303rd of 658 in the Mixed division.  My legs (1, 13, and 25) went well.  My first leg was shortened by a full mile and they didn't tell us.  It was scheduled for 7.9 but marked the course without going all the way to 1000E.  They probably realized this was long enough, having extended it enough already from the previous years first leg.  But it would have been nice to know ahead of time. 

My times were: 6.9 miles at 6:00 a.m. in 52:30, 8.5 miles at 3:30 p.m. in 63:37, and 4.8 miles at 3:27 a.m.in 39:35.  Garmin splits:  Leg 1:  8:22, 7:40, 7:41, 7:20, 7:31, 7:39.  Leg 13: 9:12, 6:52, 6:50, 7:41, 7:45, 7:32, 6:54, 7:19, 7:31.  Leg 25: 8:32, 8:05, 7:19, 8:18, 8:11.  All things considered everything went very well.  Two consecutive nights of 3 hrs. sleep each, but we had a solid 3 hours staying at a house in Oakley right before my final leg.  A near tragedy when our alternate driver lost the van keys at the Ogden Valley exchange.  Fortunately a good soul turned them in at the lost and found.  We were pretty sure they were dropped somewhere in that hayfield they turned into a parking lot, so we were very fortunate.  

Asics 2150 Gold #1 Miles: 5.00Asics 2150 Gold #2 Miles: 15.00
Comments
From Teena Marie on Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 20:41:08 from 174.52.45.85

Very fortunate with the keys!

Nice job on your legs!

Happy Father's Day!!! :)

From artichoke on Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 21:38:48 from 97.126.182.231

We were very lucky. Thanks. Father's Day was great and a good excuse to do almost nothing and get recovered.

From Burt on Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 22:04:07 from 68.225.214.248

Glad you had a good time. I dropped the keys in some weeds on my first Ragnar. Luckily I backtracked and found them.

From artichoke on Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 22:17:24 from 97.126.182.231

I thought I heard your team name called out at the 6:00 a.m. start, but I couldn't see who responded. I hope your legs went well and that you had a good time.

From Kelli on Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 23:39:42 from 71.219.99.30

I am so glad you found the keys!!! And staying at a house must have been heaven! My parents have a cabin about 25 minutes up that canyon, but we decided it would not have been worth the drive. I am still not so sure about that!

SO---was leg #1 shorter for everyone or just you??? I mean, did they fix it later? Our runner #1 said nothing about it being shorter, so I was wondering.

From artichoke on Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:11:26 from 216.49.181.254

The key thing was bit scarey, but prayers are answered. The house we stayed at was only a 1/2 mile away from the exchange and it was great!

Unless they re-marked the course somehow, it was shorter for everyone. I don't know how they could have changed it in the middle of everything. I thought maybe my Garmin had lost tracking or something, but I asked two other runners and theirs just showed 6.9 as well instead of 7.9. I think it was a last minute change or was just mis-marked by the set up crew.

From Kelli on Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 17:10:28 from 71.219.99.30

Looks like Walter did not run as fast as he thought he did on leg #1!

From artichoke on Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 20:41:03 from 97.126.182.231

Well,give

From artichoke on Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 20:43:02 from 97.126.182.231

Well,give him the benefit of the doubt. Maybe they were able to re-set the markers and re-direct the runners. We had a 6:00 a.m. start, so maybe they found their error. I didn't mind the shorter mileage after everything was over. I hope your team did great.

From Kelli on Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 23:01:17 from 71.219.99.30

I do not think I would complain about running a mile less in this race---not at all!!!

We started at 8:30 so maybe it was all fixed!

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