| 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. Favorite Blogs: |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 39.00 | 4.00 | 43.00 |
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| Asics 2150 Gold #3 Miles: 10.00 | Asics 2150 Red #1 Miles: 33.00 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.00 | 2.00 | 5.00 |
| 5 TM miles at 4:14 p.m. in 43:30. Progression run from 10:00 to 8:00 min. pace. Doctor appointment tomorrow morning to see about the SI joint pain. |
| Asics 2150 Gold #3 Miles: 5.00 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 1.00 | 5.00 |
| 5 TM miles easy in 46:51 at 9:00 a.m. Went to the doctor afterward who gave me a cortisone injection and some other drugs, like prednisone. PT this afternoon at 4:00 a.m. Doesn't think it is a stress fracture like two years ago since I actually feel better after a few miles than I do starting out. Trying to knock down the inflammation. Wants to try that approach before going through MRI and CT scans. |
| Asics 2150 Gold #3 Miles: 5.00 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| 6 miles in 55:31 at 5:30 p.m. I'm becoming an evening runner again, just like my early years. Daylight makes it nice. Ran up into Middle Canyon a mile or so and back home. My back or SI joint is still hurting, but I do better in the afternoon than I do first thing out of bed every morning. PT again tomorrow, reducing weekly mileage some after hitting 52 last week. That may be my peak. I'll take what I can get. |
| Asics 2150 Red #1 Miles: 6.00 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 1.00 | 5.00 |
| 5 miles in 47:01 at 3:15 p.m. Sunny, warm at 60 degrees, but breezy. Physical therapy at 4:30 p.m. Feeling about the same, but a bit better afterwards. Standard Skyline route to rim of Middle Canyon and back. |
| Asics 2150 Red #1 Miles: 5.00 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
| 4 miler at 6:00 p.m. Very easy to base of the dam and back home via the alleys and loop around the high school. Back hurting pretty bad for 3.5. Hope I do okay tomorrow. Solo 18 miler scheduled in the morning. |
| Asics 2150 Red #1 Miles: 4.00 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 18.00 | 0.00 | 18.00 |
| 18 slow ones without Tina this morning. 8:30 a.m. About 14 minutes slower than with her last week. Interesting run, just the same. I planned on being solo, but 1/2 mile in I see these runners coming towards me as I was going up Skyline. A bunch of guys all in black shorts and gray t-shirts. About 50 of them. Turned out to be the U.S. Army Reserves on a run. I greeted everyone with a thumbs up. It was actually pretty inspiring. Then as I was nearing the top of the big Smelter hill, a bunch of runners coming down the hill in the Tooele High Track Club 5K, an annual fund-raiser. People started telling me, "you're going the wrong way!" Perhaps 100+ runners and walkers, a few who I knew. Then as I was coming back down, Pat was coming up, doing a 20 miler for Boston. I turned around and ran with him for a short bit. We're planning on getting together to plan our Boston travel in the next couple of weeks. After I left Pat, Matt 1 was coming up the hill, so he turned around and ran with me to the bottom of the hill until I turned and headed towards Erda and Stansbury. A decent run. Back was hurting a lot very early, but felt good by 7 miles and through the end. Weird! Two more sessions of PT this week and then Moab next week. Probably won't be pushing it much down there. Just enjoy the experience and hiking afterwards to Delicate Arch. My son, Mark, going with me to mountain bike while I run. We've made this an annual event since about 2002. I love it down there. |
| Asics 2150 Red #1 Miles: 18.00 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 39.00 | 4.00 | 43.00 |
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| Asics 2150 Gold #3 Miles: 10.00 | Asics 2150 Red #1 Miles: 33.00 |
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