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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, Mar 13, 2010
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
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12 miles at 9:00 a.m. in 1:35:57 or right on 8:00 minute averge pace. Tooele to Stansbury via Droubay Road through Erda and through Stansbury Park to the Benson Mill church.  We barely beat the snowfall, but had rain from about 6 miles to the end, progressively getting a bit heavier but not too bad.  I was in shorts as it was 44 degrees or more starting out.  As I write this, it has been snowing steadily for the past hour.  Start of tapering for Moab next weekend.  Splits today:  8:01, 8:28, 7:56, 7:45, 7:44, 8:08, 7:33, 8:00, 7:46, 8:01, 8:23, 8:06.  Felt good today.  Hip was troublesome a bit right at first like it has been since my Yasso's Thursday night, but got better throughout.  Heel pain was there, but minimal.

Nike Structure Triax +12 Red #2 Miles: 12.00
Comments
From Kelli on Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 14:34:50 from 71.219.89.82

We hit about the same weather, glad we got home when we did because it got wet!!

Enjoy your taper next week, Moab is FUN (that is very sarcastic, in case you can not infer my tone!!!) Next year I am there, i have to re-do that race!!!

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