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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, Apr 10, 2010
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
5.0013.5018.50

7:30 a.m. run.  35-45 degrees.  Mostly sunny.  Up the Smelter Road hills to gate past mile 6 and then back down and thru Erda to the north end of Stansbury.  10 with Tina on her 13 mile run.   A good run.  5 minutes faster than last week for the same route.  Tina pushes the downhills pretty good.  Slowest mile: 9:39 on steepest Smelter Rd. hill.  Fastest:  Consecutive 7:13, 7:16, and 7:14 at miles 10-12 into Erda.  Average pace:  8:17.  A local bike race event was going on along the course on Smelter Road.

Asics 2150 Gold #1 Miles: 18.00
Comments
From Burt on Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 13:51:12 from 98.177.220.145

Nice job choke. Remind me if you're running Boston this year.

From artichoke on Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 12:12:16 from 71.37.104.182

Thanks. I didn't run Boston last year because of an injury and then couldn't quite qualify for it this year. I'll be running the Ogden Marathon on May 15th with some friends. I hope to have a chance to qualify for 2011 at SGM in the fall if all goes well. We'll see.

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