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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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5:00 a.m.  40 minutes at Gold's Gym with Sharon.  20/20 elliptical/cycling workout.

Didn't run Monday evening, went Tuesday AM instead of the gym. 5 miles on the standard Skyline route.  Saw Liz an Roland coming back as I headed out very early.

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5:45 p.m.  5 miles up thru the cemetery and down 7th to Elton Park and zig-zag through town back home.  Very easy.  Not timed.

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5:00 a.m.  45 minutes at Gold's Gym with Sharon.  25 minutes on lt. upper body weights.  3 x 15 x 6 machines followed by 20 minutes recumbent cycling.

7:30 a.m.  5 miles to mouth of Middle Canyon via the cemetery.  Back via THS track and home. 

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6:30 a.m.  10 miles from condo in Ivins to the "bra" below Snow Canyon High School and back on bike trails to Snow Canyon Parkway Trail.  Home via Painted Hills.  Right hip hurting the last 2 or 3 miles.  How does that happen after easy running this week and nothing yesterday?

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