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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 14, 2010
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
5.0013.0018.00

18 miles in 2:28:29.  8:14 average pace.  Generally a good run, although I struggled a lot after about mile 15.  Tina left me in the dust for the last few miles.  She is really running well right now.  I look for her to do very well next week at Hobble Creek.  Nice morning for a run.  Ran up the Smelter Road hills and back before meeting up with her.  She was planning on 14 and did 15.   Then we went down through Erda and into Stansbury Park finishing at the Benson Mill.  My splits:  10:08, 9:09, 8:07, 9:48, 9:42, 9:24, 8:43, 7:45, 7:01, 7:06, 7:13, 7:20, 7:22, 7:25, 7:51, 7:53, 8:06,  and 8:16.  Taper next week until Hobble Creek Half Marathon next Saturday. 

Asics 2150 Gold #3 Miles: 18.00
Comments
From Tom Slick on Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 13:23:14 from 69.171.174.156

Great mileage week there AC.Looks like you should be able to do a 1:30:00 or better at the Hobble 1/2. Are you doing SGM this year? Keep on clobbering out those great miles....

From artichoke on Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 17:53:34 from 97.126.184.64

Thanks Slick. I don't know about 1:30, but hopefully 1:35 - 1:38. Yes, I'll be at SGM if things keep going well. #18. That may commit me to go for 20, which I hadn't really planned on. You're doing well and I know you'll be at SGM!

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