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Ray Barrus Memorial 5K

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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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Totals
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
28.105.0033.10
Mon, Jun 29, 2009
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
9.000.009.00

5 miler this morning at 5:10 a.m. solo.  4 miles tonight at 8:00 p.m. with Gina on the Smelter Road hills.  Decent effort.

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Tue, Jun 30, 2009
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
5.000.005.00

5 slow miles with Gina.  Forgot my Garmin, so we had to estimate how far we went.  She wanted to do an extra mile from what was on the schedule.  I think that is a good sign.  She is doing very well, but we wilted a bit with the humidity.  It felt like it wanted to rain, but didn't.  It would have been a welcome relief.  5 miler in the morning.

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Wed, Jul 01, 2009
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
0.005.005.00

5 miles with Tina this morning at 5:10 a.m.  I know it was slow for her, but a good clip for me in 44:00 flat.  Sub 9's for an out and back up along Skyline is about all that I can handle.  But, a good run still.

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Thu, Jul 02, 2009
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
6.000.006.00

6 miles this evening at 6:15 p.m.  4 with Gina.  She did one more than the schedule, and was feeling pretty good.  Very slow tonight.  Nice, nice cool temperatures.   Felt great.  3 very easy tomorrow morning the day before the 5K.

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Fri, Jul 03, 2009
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
5.000.005.00

Nice 5 mile run in the sun this morning.  3 easy with Gina.  Going to G-ville to pick up our race numbers tonight for the 5K tomorrow morning.

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Sat, Jul 04, 2009
Race: Ray Barrus Memorial 5K (3.1 Miles) 00:30:19, Place in age division: 4
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
3.100.003.10

Ray Barrus Memorial 5K in 30:19 with Gina.  9:45 pace overall.  She did really great!  Gina took 2nd in the W45-49.  I took 4th in M50-54.  We did an additional 4 miles on the Mormon Trail Road afterwards for a total of 7 miles today.

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Totals
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
28.105.0033.10
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