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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
Sun, Oct 11, 2009
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
3.002.005.00

9:00 a.m. trail run with Tina along the Dark Trail in Settlement Canyon.  Nice, crisp Fall morning.  I think I slowed Tina way down.  I'm still not fully recovered from the marathon.  We were slower than usual, but pushing 8:03 coming back down the last 2 miles.  Tina took a hard fall right after we turned onto the gravel road off the trail.  Cut her hand and elbow pretty good.  Glad we weren't too far from my truck at that point.  I must have jinxed her talking about the 2 falls I had while simply walking down some Argentine streets during our trip.  I can run 26.2 without falling, but I can't walk down a slightly irregular and uneven sidewalk without biffing it!

Comments
From argentinerocket on Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 23:44:37 from 98.204.54.245

Artichoke, I've been too busy to read your entries about your trip to Argentina, I need to catch up! Sorry to hear you fell, let me see, was it due to sidewalks being totally destroyed? Please tell me you didn't slip on dog poop!

I hope Tina didn't hurt herself too bad!

From artichoke on Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 23:43:45 from 71.38.244.220

Thanks for your note rocket. Tina is okay, just cut her hand a bit and and scraped an elbow. She went trail running with a friend on Friday, and said she was a bit paranoid waiting for the same thing to happen.

Argentina was great especially the Falls at Iguazu' and the great people we met in Posadas, Formosa, and Resistencia. I loved the country. My spanish was rusty, but was much improved by the time we left 10 days later. We enjoyed a great tour of B.A. on the way home. When I fell in Formosa it was mostly not watching what I was doing, trying to keep up with my 6'-3" tall son who walks way too fast for us and not negotiating an unevern sidewalk on the downtown streets. Everything else was just great. Hope you're doing well, it sounds like by your entries things are good. Take care.

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