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, Jan 03, 2009

Slow miles	Fast miles	Total Distance
14.00	0.00	14.00

14 miles LSD on frozen tundra. 6 to 7 inches of fresh snow overnight. The roads were icy and frozen most of the run. With the sun out, the cleared roads began melting and I had to stop and remove my spikes after about 9 miles. It really turned out to be a beautiful and clear sunny day, even though it was quite cold still. We must have had lake effect snowfall overnight, because not that much was reported from yesterday's storm. Really slow and easy. I'm feeling stiff and a bit sluggish, but I was glad to get in a 14 miler two weeks before Painter's Half-marathon in St. George. 40 miles this week. It's supposed to be even colder tomorrow with another storm coming in Monday morning. Tomorrow is a rest day and I may be doing 5 on the treadmill early Monday morning.

Comments

From Marion on Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 20:21:27

We got about 8" down here in Payson. It sure was pretty. I wimped out and hit the tread mill- Way to get out there. I checked the highway and it is clear- I may run there if the storm comes in later Monday. Today sure is FRIGID!!! I'm going to Painters too. Good luck!

From artichoke on Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 23:37:24

It sounds like we're about in the same boat. I feel wimpy running on the treamill as well and excited bout going to St. George in about 10 days or so. Good luck and keep up the good work!

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