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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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Asics 2150 Gold #1 Miles: 49.00Nike Structure Triax +12 Red #2 Miles: 5.00
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9.002.0011.00

5 slow miles in the wind at 5:05 a.m.  How can the wind blow in both directions going out and coming back?  It was warm, prior to the predicted incoming storms.

6 TM miles.  Rain and windy out tonight.  6:10 p.m.  52:08.  9:30 to 9:00 with 1.5% incline for first half.  8:30 pace starting second 1/2 of run increasing gradually down to 7:15 pace with 1% incline.

Asics 2150 Gold #1 Miles: 5.00
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5 easy miles in light rain/snow.  5:10 a.m. 37 degrees.

Nike Structure Triax +12 Red #2 Miles: 5.00
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5 miles quite slow this morning.  34 degrees.  5:05 a.m.

Asics 2150 Gold #1 Miles: 5.00
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7.007.0014.00

5 miles at 5:05 a.m.  45 degrees.  Easy run up Skyline to the gate and back plus loop to the west.  Felt good.

9 miles in 1:18:13 or 8:41 averge pace.  Fairly easy to moderate effort.  at 6:15 p.m.  63 degrees.  Very nice running temperature.  Skyline, Broadway, Vine, up Middle Canyon 1 mile and back down.  Smelter Road up 1 mile and zig-zagged through town back home.  14 total miles today.

Asics 2150 Gold #1 Miles: 14.00
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5 miles very easy.  5:10 a.m.  Nearly 50 degrees.  Legs a bit tight from last night.  Long one scheduled for tomorrow morning.

Asics 2150 Gold #1 Miles: 5.00
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2.0018.0020.00

20 mile run in 2:51:20, 8:34 average pace.  8:00 a.m. on the Smelter Road hills to turn-around point at 5 mile flat, back down through Erda on Droubay Road and up over the knoll on the gravel road down through Lakepoint along the old Lincoln Highway and frontage road to the Truck Stop.  Got there just in time for Sharon to pick me up.  Felt good about my first 20 miler and 60 mile week for this year.  A very nice day.  Nearly 60 degrees starting out and bit too warm finishing up. Fastest mile was 7:44, slowest 9:29 on the big hill.  Fairly easy effort most of the run.

Asics 2150 Gold #1 Miles: 20.00
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