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THS Track "Fund Run"

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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 17, 2012
Race: THS Track "Fund Run" (3.1 Miles) 00:23:12
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
4.003.007.00

9:00 a.m.  Decided to run the THS Track 5K "Fund"Run.  Fund raiser to support the Tooele High School track club.  They didn't have numbers and just taped our names on our shirts. It was windy, so I lost my tag.  Ran 23:12, 7:34 AP, being very careful on the steeper downhill middle mile.  Splits:  7:36, 7:23, 7:45.  Tina ran 21:10 or something.  2nd place OA in the Women.  Not bad for 50 years old, I'd say.  Then we ran back up to my truck for another 3.1 miles uphill, very easy.  Very windy morning.  Knee is responding pretty well.  Will move up to 5 days running next week to see how I do.

10:30 a.m.  to the gym.  3 x 15 x 6 machines light weight upper body reps.  Then 1 TM progression mile, 9:50 to 8:00. 

Nike Zoom Structure +15 Gray Miles: 7.00
Comments
From allie on Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 12:23:46 from 97.126.223.167

nice race! and congrats to tina as well. that is great.

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