Artichoke's Running Blog (Ken Spence)

Hobble Creek 1/2 Marathon

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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, Aug 21, 2010

Race: Hobble Creek 1/2 Marathon (13.1 Miles) 01:37:50, Place overall: 175, Place in age division: 8

Slow miles	Fast miles	Total Distance
0.00	13.10	13.10

Hobble Creek 1/2 Marathon in 1:37:50, 7:28 average pace. A good day for a run, albeit a late start once again, by about 1/2 hour. Tina did GREAT! 1:33:36 and 1st place in the F45-49. My splits: 7:21, 7:16, 7:25, 7:12, 7:13, 7:17, 7:39, 7:22, 7:34, 7:48, 8:11, 8:00, 7:49. My last race in the M50-54 age division!

Asics 2150 Gold #3 Miles: 13.00

Comments

From Burt on Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 18:17:23 from 68.225.214.248

Good job Choke. Why are your race reports always so short? :)

From artichoke on Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 23:16:43 from 97.126.184.64

Old age doesn't allow my memory to give a complete mile by mile report, but I do like reading those that do. Splits are all I have to offer.

From Teena Marie on Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 22:26:52 from 174.52.45.85

Fantastic race!!! A huge congrats to both you and Tina!!! :)

(When is your birthday??)

From artichoke on Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 23:08:49 from 97.126.184.64

Thanks. August 30 and I'm in the next AG for SGM. I really liked your OJ and vodka story! That one needs to go in to Runner's World!

From jasro on Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 13:35:40 from 198.50.4.4

Hey we had almost exactly the same time (though I'm about 15 years younnger than you are). Good job!!

From artichoke on Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 10:02:02 from 216.49.181.254

Way to run Jasro! You'll be running even faster when you're my age.

From Kelli on Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 20:27:25 from 71.219.102.155

Hmmmm....somebody is gettin' old!!!

Nice job on the race and YEAH Tina!

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