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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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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
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Asics 2150 Gold #3 Miles: 20.00Asics 2150 Gold #2 Miles: 5.00Asics 2150 Red #1 Miles: 5.00
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5 easy TM miles at 5:00 a.m.  48:10.

Asics 2150 Gold #3 Miles: 5.00
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5 TM miles at  5:00 a.m. in 43:32.  Progression run from 10:00 min. pace to 7:30 pace. Quasi tempo run effort.

Asics 2150 Gold #3 Miles: 5.00
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5 TM miles in 46:37.  Easy running.  Progression to 8:30 pace.  .5% to 4% incline.  Should have checked the temperature before the run.  I think we were all the way up to 15 degrees.  I could have hit the streets.  Owell.  See what tomorrow brings.  Supposed to be warming up to a balmy 39 by Saturday!

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5 miles at 5:00 a.m.  Out on the roads.  20 degrees, a veritable heat-wave.  Easy run this morning, with some pick ups the last half.  Still icy spots for the first and last quarter mile of the run near my house as well as the frozen tundra on the gravel road for about 1/2 mile approaching the turn-around at the rim of the canyon.  Felt good to be off the TM!

Asics 2150 Gold #3 Miles: 5.00
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5 very easy miles at 5:00 a.m.  Nearly 10 degrees warmer at 30 degrees.  Felt a bit sluggish.  Snow was predicted overnight, but we got very little.  The streets were good other than on the gravel road near the gate.  10 miles scheduled for Saturday morning with Tina.....on the hills again!

Asics 2150 Gold #2 Miles: 5.00
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10 miles at 8:00 a.m. with Tina in 1:26:07, 8:37 average pace on the Smelter Road hills.  4 minutes faster than last week and feeling a bit stronger on the hills.  Fastest mile: 7:36. Slowest mile: 9:27.  Much warmer today.  34 degrees starting out.  3 day weekend!

Asics 2150 Red #1 Miles: 5.00
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