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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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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
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9:30 a.m. run for 5+ miles.  Still on sloppy roads, but warmed up to 33 degrees this morning.  Roads may be better for tomorrow's run.

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5.2 miles today out and back on the Skyline route.  Fairly easy in 46:30, or about 8:55 pace.  Sunny and clear.  9:00 a.m. run.  Started out at about 33 degrees, but was 40 degrees at the end.

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Nice sunny morning today.  10:00 a.m.  I did 6 miles in 51:49 at about 8:37 pace overall.  Didn't really push it much, but it seems that these old legs do a bit better after I've been up and moving around some.  Fastest mile was onlyl 8:11, so I wasn't going all that fast at any particular part. 

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10 a.m. New Year's Day 5 mile tempo run in 41:43, or 8:19 pace overall.  Some hills as well.  Nice to have some dry roads.  Moderate going up the hills but pushed tempo pace coming back.

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5 miles at 11:30 a.m., same route as yesterday, but at easy pace.  44:31, 8:54 pace overall.  Legs feel really tired and hamstrings are a bit sore.  I don't feel ready for a 12-14 miler tomorrow.  It was quite warm today, nearly 50 degrees.  The warm before the storm coming.  Weather is supposed to change tonight and be bad in the morning again.  Temperatures are supposed to drop and be very cold on Sunday.  I go back to 5 a.m. runs on Monday, so I'm not looking forward to that.  I've been off work for the holidays since December 20th.  It's been great, but the time flew by! 

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14 miles LSD on frozen tundra.  6 to 7 inches of fresh snow overnight.  The roads were icy and frozen most of the run.  With the sun out, the cleared roads began melting and I had to stop and remove my spikes after about 9 miles.  It really turned out to be a beautiful and clear sunny day, even though it was quite cold still.  We must have had lake effect snowfall overnight, because not that much was reported from yesterday's storm.  Really slow and easy.  I'm feeling stiff and a bit sluggish, but I was glad to get in a 14 miler two weeks before Painter's Half-marathon in St. George.  40 miles this week.  It's supposed to be even colder tomorrow with another storm coming in Monday morning.  Tomorrow is a rest day and I may be doing 5 on the treadmill early Monday morning.

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