Artichoke's Running Blog (Ken Spence)

Week starting Mar 20, 2011

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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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Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	0.00
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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Mon, Mar 21, 2011

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P.T. this afternoon. Working the lower left back and piriformis muscles. Lots of heat therapy, e-stim, ultra-sound, and stretching.

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Wed, Mar 23, 2011

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Molly worked me over good at PT today. More e-stim, ultrasound, deep massage, traction, stretching, icing, then sent me up to the doc for a shot of cortisone in my left piriformis. We'll see what happens. The injection he gave me a couple of weeks ago was more near my back, and it didn't do anything, but everything is looking more like piriformis syndrome right now.

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Thu, Mar 24, 2011

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Minor improvement getting out of bed this morning. Walking feels a bit easier.

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Fri, Mar 25, 2011

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Best I've felt getting up and moving this morning. PT this afternoon. Rob did more deep tissue massage and said things didn't feel as tight on the piriformis. The injection may have worked some this time, along with the PT, no running, pain pills anti-inflammatory pills and stretching. Probably a combination of all of the above. No running all next week, not even cycling, and then will attempt something next Saturday to see where I feel like I'm at for Boston. This is a literal pain in the a#$%*!

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