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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 46:49, 9:21 pace.  Slow recovery run.  Just starting to snow at 5:00 a.m. but not sticking yet.  Felt okay.  Bagged second run this evening, try 2 runs tomorrow.

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2 runs today.  5 miles on treadmill this morning at 5:00 a.m. in 42:43, about 8:33 pace.  Snowed overnight.  5 more miles on dry roads tonight at 6:30 p.m. in 44:45, about 8:57 pace.  Full sweats and 35 degrees tonight, but nice to have sunshine with the time change.  Felt pretty good.

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5 miles in 46:00 flat, or 9:12 pace, fairly easy at 5:10 a.m. 25 degrees. Felt okay. Dry roads

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2 runs today.   5 miles this morning at 5:00 a.m. in 44:57, or just under 9:00 minute pace.  Fairly easy running and felt good.  26 degrees.  Not as sluggish as I ususally feel early in the morning.  Speedwork at the track tonight at 6:45 p.m.  Nice to have daylight! Sunny, but 40 degrees with a bit of a cool breeze, but warm enough for shorts and long sleeves with a running vest, hat and gloves.  Ran Yasso 800's.  4 x 800 in 3:20, 3:18, 3:16, and 3:16 with 400 recovery after each plus running to and from the track, 1/2 mile each way for warm up and cool down.  Good solid workout, but I'm beat.  Easy 5 scheduled for tomorrow and then 16 on Saturday, one week from Moab.

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5 slow recovery miles in 49:12, 9:50 pace.  Temperatures around 25 degrees at 5:00 a.m.  Long run tomorrow, supposed to be sunny, clear, and warming up, but will probably still be cool in the morning.  On my own tomorrow.  Need to set out some H2O.

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16 miles in 2:16:55, 8:33 pace.  9:00 a.m 30 degrees starting out, 50's at the end.  Sunny and nice and clear today.  Felt good about the pace not having Tina there to push me today.  One more week until Moab.  I feel ready for the most part.  50 mile week.  I'll taper this next week and won't run on Friday.  Looking forward to next weekend and hope the forecast holds out.  They were talking 60 degrees here in Friday and sunny.  Fastest mile today was 7:39, slowest 9:30.

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