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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 2150 Red #1 Miles: 52.00
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5 miles at 5:00 a.m. easy run along Skyline to Grimm's Gate back via the lower loops.  The moon looked really weird coming up over the Oquirrh Mountains this morning.  20 degrees.

5 miles at 5:30 p.m. in 45:58 on the Westland route coming back along 200 North and over to 100 West coming home.  Fairly easy effort.  Back okay until after I was done.  Generally doing better, but need to be cautious.   

Asics 2150 Red #1 Miles: 10.00
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5 easy recovery miles at 5:00 a.m.  Skyline standard route and back along the lower loops.  30 degrees and clear.

Asics 2150 Red #1 Miles: 5.00
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5 miles at 5:00 a.m. easy run.  Ran a bit with Liz and Roland on Skyline and back via lower loops.  40 degrees.

4 miles at 5:30 p.m.  Nice to run with some daylight.  Westland loop.  Slight pickups on Coleman.  My back is still hurting, but tolerable. 

Asics 2150 Red #1 Miles: 9.00
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5 very slow easy miles at 5:00 a.m.  Did the Upland and Loma Vista loops going up and through Elk Ridge loop and Skyline coming back home.  Back not good this morning.

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5 miles at 5:00 a.m.  30 degrees.  Easy run along Skyline to Grimm's gate and back via the lower loops.

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18 miles at 8:00 a.m.  2:42:41 or 9:02 average pace.  With Tina for about 11.  Smelter Road hills to 6 miles then back down and through Erda and to the north end of Stansbury.  38 degrees and cloudy starting out.  A lot of runners on the hills today, including Pat who's headed to Boston with me next month.  Didn't set out any water.  Stupid.  Stupid.  Stupid. I've never ever done that on a long run in 28 years, so why do I try it now at age 55!  I'm an old man for crying out loud!  Tina ran out of petrol about 1.5 miles from the end.  I didn't fair much better.  Glad she had some bottles of water in her car as we drove home.  We were both feeling like crap.  My back loosened up after about 7 miles and felt fairly good until about16.  Somewhat encouraging run.  52 miles this week.

Asics 2150 Red #1 Miles: 18.00
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