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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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5 miles in 43:56, 8:43 pace. Good to be on the road again these last 3 runs. Felt pretty decent this morning. Moderate effort.

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Not really all that fast, but anymore, anything under 9:00 pace at 5 o'clock in the morning in full sweats is a fast run for me.  44:21 or 8:51 pace.  Feeling a bit better each day.  Can't run tomorrow morning unless I get up at 4:00 a.m., since I have to be to an early meeting, but I'll run when I get home tomorrow night.  Cooperative weather and good roads right now.

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5 miler tonight at 6:00 p.m. in 43:40 or about 8:40 pace.  42 degrees.  Burned off a lot of frustration from work today, so maybe it was good that I ran afterward instead of first thing this morning.  Of course, on the other hand, maybe I had a crappy day at work because I didn't get a run in this morning.  A lot of snow melting today and with the water running across the streets, it will probably be icy for the morning run, so I'll take it easy tomorrow.  Got an e-mail from Matt today saying he got a 4 miler in on Saturday.  I don't understand seasonal runners for some reason.  He hasn't run a step since the St. George Marathon.  Now he's starting to get into it and build back up his base mileage.  He does this every year.  I think he'd be really good if he'd run all year long, but that's just my opinion.  Everybody's different and to each his own.  I have to run and when the time comes that I have to give this up, it will be very, very tough.

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5 miles this morning in 47:44, about 9:31 pace.  Actually pretty slow, but I had run the night before and didn't push at all.  Also ran 1 1/2 miles tonight again, but with my labrador.  She is so out of shape.  I need to start running her a bit.  I was dragging her the last 1/2 mile, but she did okay.  Supposed to be weather in the morning, I think.  Hope I don't have to be on the treadmill, it's been nice not to be on that for a week now.

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A slow 48:03 for 5 this morning.  9:36 pace overall.  Roads were dry.  45 degrees.  Long run scheduled tomorrow at 9:00 a.m.

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12 miles today in 1:46:21.  Helen ran 8 with us and Tina did 10.  A bit sluggish in places but not bad.  I'll take anything sub 9 minute pace for my long runs.  Weather held off.  Rain overnight, but nothing this morning.  38 miles this week.

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