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Canyonlands Half-Marathon

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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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Sat, Mar 21, 2009
Race: Canyonlands Half-Marathon (13.1 Miles) 01:42:10, Place overall: 329, Place in age division: 22
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
0.0013.1013.10

Well, not my best half marathon, but not bad all things considered.  I was 6 minutes off last year, but still felt fairly good about by effort.  I wilted badly in the heat and gradually slowed with each mile.  Fastest mile was mile 2 in 7:08.  Slowest was mile 11 in 8:08.  7:49 overall pace.  So my range was within a minute.  Running in 30 to 40 degrees everyday in training and then having to face 70 or higher on that asphalt just zapped me of what I needed late in the race.  Last year I had Painter's under my belt and was running higher mileage preparing for Boston, so those are my excuses anyway.  Gorgeous day and beautiful weather!  1:42:10 was my chip and garmin time.  1:42:29 was the gun time.  Good for 22/124 in Men's 50-54 division, 253/1364 in Men's Class, and 329/3282 overall field.  Already have reservations for next year.  It's still my favorite half marathon.

Comments
From Kelli on Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 17:07:30 from 71.219.76.202

OKay, I am glad to hear that someone who loves this 1/2 marathon also struggled some. I was thinking the same thing today---that it was really hard to go from cold running every day to HOT. Why do they start the race so late in the day???

You did awesome, I wonder if I saw you out there somewhere since our times were pretty close??

From marion on Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 18:00:48 from 71.213.116.115

Yeah Arti! What a great race :( I bet he temp change was really hard. Everyone I talk to, LOVES this race. It sounds like one I am going to have to do next year :) Your time really is good, no sweat about lack of perfection ;) I'm glad you had fun.

From Mark on Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 01:16:25 from 32.155.185.45

I'm glad you had a good time at this race and did well, too. I didn't realize how much the heat was affecting people until afterward. It is certainly a very beautiful course.

From Burt on Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:17:40 from 68.76.197.194

Great job.

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