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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 #4 Miles: 10.00Asics 2150 Gold #3 Miles: 1.00
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Gym this morning at 5:00 a.m. with Sharon.  20 min. elliptical.  10 min. upright cycle and 10 min. of recumbent cycle.  4 miles on TM tonight at 6:10 a.m., easy in 38:13.  Felt decent.

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40 minutes at gym at 5:00 a.m. 20 minutes on elliptical, 10 minutes on upright cycle and 10 minutes on recumbent.  Couldn't get heart rate up this morning.  Total gym weights for 20 minutes at 6:15 p.m.

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40 minutes at 5:00 a.m. at Gold's Gym.  20 minutes elliptical, 10 minutes on upright cycle, and 10 minutes on recumbent.  Heart rate nearing optimum.

5 TM miles at gym tonight.  46:40 progression run from 10:00 pace to 8:30 pace.  Gave blood today, felt okay during run, but about passed out when I bent over to put things in my gym bag afterwards.  Achilles a tad sore.  Back felt decent.  Seeing the Spine doctor tomorrow about my MRI. 

Asics 2150 Gold #4 Miles: 5.00
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Walking with Elaine and Savannah this morning, 5:10 a.m.  40 minutes, with 1 mile running.  Gym at 7:15 a.m. with 20 minutes elliptical, 10 minutes upright cycle, 10 minutes recumbent.  Got my  heart rate nearer to optimum today.  Walked in and saw both my doctor and my physical therapist talking so they asked how I was doing and whether I got scheduled with the spine specialist for reviewing my MRI.  I told them that's why I was at the gym so late, my appointment was at 9:45 a.m.  Weights tonight for 20 minutes at home on the total gym.  

The specialist said I actually have a tear in one of the disks and a small bulge in the other.  He has scheduled me for an epridural cortisone injection on June 3 and July 1.  Hopefully that will help me get my running back up to par.  It works for many, but not everybody.  He said if it doesn't work, my long run days or marathoning may be over, but hopefully that won't be the case.  I am tolerating the every other day running without much residual pain, so I'm somewhat optimistic.  He doesn't want me running for 7 to 10 days after the injections.  That will barely get me to Ragnar.  Wants me to continue what I'm doing now with the alternative exercises and the running easy up until the injections, as long as it's going okay.  The gym  has been good for me and  I need to continue doing that even if I can get back to running well again. 

Asics 2150 Gold #3 Miles: 1.00
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5 miles at 6:30 a.m. with Tina in 43:50.  Felt pretty decent throughout, not much pain until standing around afterwards.  15 miles this week.

Went to the gym with Sharon at 7:30 a.m.  30 minutes elliptical, 15 minutes recumbent cycle and 15 minutes upright.  15 minutes on stair climber for 51 floors.  A good workout today. 

Asics 2150 Gold #4 Miles: 5.00
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