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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, Jul 17, 2010
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
6.008.0014.00

14 mile long run in 2:03:25, 8:48 average pace on the Smelter Road hills and a mile into Middle Canyon and back home.  Splits were: 10:02, 9:16, 8:41, 9:35, 9:04, 8:28, 8:17, 8:05, 7:38, 9:01, 9:27, 8:26, 8:52, and 8:25.  Several other runner out this morning on the hill.  75 degrees and warming but overcast.  Felt good most of the run.  Didn't push it much.  Knees feeling okay.

Asics 2150 Gold #3 Miles: 14.00
Comments
From Burt on Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 11:41:03 from 68.225.214.248

Wow! You kept getting faster and faster until the very end. Nice.

From artichoke on Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 12:16:37 from 97.126.176.6

Thanx. I was on my own today without my training partner, so it was a good effort for me. It's supposed to be nearly 100 degrees here today, but that probably sounds cool for AZ today, right?

From Burt on Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 12:57:15 from 68.225.214.248

110 here today. Wasn't too bad this morning because there was some cloud cover. But I was swimming in the humidity.

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