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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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5:30 a.m.  4TM miles at Gold's Gym.  Slight progression run from 9:50 to 8:30 pace.  Heading to San Francisco this morning to see Mike and Gina and all the sites.

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6:00 a.m. run in Ferndale, CA with Mike and Gina.  What a great little town and a great old house they just bought.  We had a great easy run together.

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San Francisco.  5 mile run along the Embarcadero with Gina, Sharon walked at the same location. Very nice sunny day.

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San Francisco, CA.  3 mile easy running from the Presidio parking lot to Golden Gate bridge and back.  A absolutely gorgeous day running with great friends.

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No running today.  Oakland Temple and flight home.  We had a great trip.

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11:00 a.m. run with Tina in 1:24:28, 8:27 AP.  Nice sunny day here in Tooele.  Droubay Road loop to 1000 N. and down main loop by Applebee's and back home via Coleman up to 400 S. with an ending loop down the alley to the church and back.  Felt great today.

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