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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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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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Nike Structure Triax +12 Red #2 Miles: 6.00Asics 2150 Gold #1 Miles: 54.00
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10.001.3511.35

5 miles at 5:10 a.m.  45 degrees.  Easy recovery run.  Felt a bit beat up after Saturday's run, but okay this morning.  6 more tonight.

6.35 miles tonight at 6:10 a.m. mostly on trail up towards the dam and behind Little Mountain and east of the water tank.  Dropped down to Skyline and up to the gate and back via Loma Vista and Upland loops finishing along S.R. 36 and home.  60 degrees.  Easy running picking up final mile to 8:05. A bit tired tonight.

Nike Structure Triax +12 Red #2 Miles: 6.00Asics 2150 Gold #1 Miles: 5.00
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5.000.005.00

5 mile slow recovery run.  5:10 a.m.   Standard Skyline route.  50 degrees.  Last warm day for week........so they say. 

Asics 2150 Gold #1 Miles: 5.00
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5.000.005.00

5 easy miles at 5:10 a.m.  Got back just before it started to rain and snow.  Caught a break between the wind last night and the percipitation this morning.  That seldom happens.

Asics 2150 Gold #1 Miles: 5.00
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14.400.0014.40

14 miles this morning at 5:10 a.m.  Glad I got it in ahead of the incoming storm.  Easy to fairly easy effort for entire run.  Skyline out and back and then up Middle Canyon 1 mile and back to Droubay dropping down to Smelter Road and up a bit.  Headed home via the high school and Coleman St.

Asics 2150 Gold #1 Miles: 14.00
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4.500.004.50

5:10 a.m. in the snow and rain.   4.5 miles, avoiding the mud bog at the end of Skyline.  Easy run in preparation for final 20 miler tomorrow.  Hope the weather is better for that.

Asics 2150 Gold #1 Miles: 5.00
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5.0015.0020.00

20 mile long run.  Last of 3 consecutive 60 mile weeks.  Slow on the Smelter Road hills in a snow storm.  By the end of the run in Lakepoint it was nice and sunny.  2:49:41 or 8:29 overall pace.  Much faster after meeting up with Tina for the last 14 miles.  We ran consecutive splits of 7:39, 7:27, 7:30, 7:37, 7:52, and 7:59.  Slowed up going over the knoll on the gravel road before Lakepoint in 8:21 and 8:24.  Then 7:36, 7:51, 8:29, 8:19, finishing with an 8:06 final mile.  Fastest of my three 20 mile runs.  Felt good about that especially after being so slow on the Smelter Road hills in the snow and wet full sweats.  Start tapering next week.

Asics 2150 Gold #1 Miles: 20.00
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