Artichoke's Running Blog (Ken Spence)

Top of Utah 1/'2 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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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 29, 2009

Race: Top of Utah 1/'2 Marathon (13.1 Miles) 02:09:11, Place in age division: 30

Slow miles	Fast miles	Total Distance
0.00	13.10	13.10

A very nice 1/2 marathon under great weather conditions! Gina did very well. I paced her trying to stay under 10:00 minutes for every mile. Finished in 2:09:11, about 9:47 pace. She finished 31st out of 76 in the F45-49 division, or about top 40%, so she's improving rapidly. Fastest split was 9:18 with 9:33 final mile. She stayed very strong throughout, finished strong, and had left nothing out there, so she did very well. A cool tail wind for a while coming down the canyon and overcast skies in the last stages helped a whole lot. Just a great race and I couldn't be happier for Gina. She was very excited. Tina also did extremely well. 1:36:00 flat. 2nd in the same F45-49 age group. She is amazing and a great runner. Next up for me is the St. George Marathon, one day after getting back from Argentina and then Snow Canyon 1/2 Marathon on November 7th.

Comments

From Kelli on Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 15:18:36 from 71.219.64.200

Yeah GINA!!! You were obviously an awesome pacer!

St Gorge one day after Argentina, huh?? WOW! Why are you going to Argentina?

From artichoke on Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 19:13:45 from 71.38.252.109

We're picking up our son who is on a mission in Resistencia. Hoping to see Iguazu Falls as well. Got some good advice from the argentinerocket to help us out. Hope your running is going well.

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