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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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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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5 miles in 44:38 at fairly easy pace, 8:56 per mile average.  Ran tonight at 6:30 p.m. instead of this morning.  Nice to have some daylight, but need to return to the black tomorrow morning.  Legs still a bit sore from Saturday.  Mostly the hamstrings, but otherwise feeling okay.

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Two runs today.  5 miles this morning at 5:10 a.m. in 47:47 and tonight at 6:30 p.m. another 5 miler in 44:57.  Nice to have some daylight and 40 degrees tonight.  Easy effort, still recovering with sore legs getting a better.

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5 miles plodding this morning.  My legs were really tired and felt heavy.  Just enjoyed a very leasurely lope. 

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2 runs today. 5 miles this morning at 5:10 a.m. in about 46 minutes.  Light snow flurries on the east side.  Ran easy.  Roads and air was dry on our side of town.  A bit weird.  Snowing tonight when I got home so I did my Yasso 800's on the treadmill.  That was strange, too.  Actually 4 x 880 yds. or 4 x 1/2 mile in 3:20 (6:40 pace or 9 mph).  440 yds. recovery after each. 1 mile warm up and cool down.

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5 miles easy at 5:10 a.m.

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16 miles in 2:19:10.  8:40 pace.  A bit slower than two weeks ago.  Nice sunny day.  Didn't run until about 10:30 a.m.  It was nearly 60 degrees, so shorts and short sleeve tech shirt was perfect.  Ran up Smelter Road into Pine Canyon and back down and then 1 1/2 miles up Middle Canyon and back home.  Saw Liz out at the top of the hill when I was coming back.  I haven't run with Tina for 3 weeks, she's had other things going on.  My Garmin has been doing strange things.  I couldn't get it to work on Thursday or Friday, so I called the toll free technical support number.  They had me do a master re-set, which cleared everything up, I thought.  But today's run it gave me my overall time and pace for 16 miles, but then it only broke it out into 3 laps, so something is wacky still with it.

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