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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: 6.00Asics 2150 Gold #2 Miles: 20.00Asics 2150 Gold #3 Miles: 19.00
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
4.002.006.00

Elmhurst, IL.  6+ miles at 5:30 a.m.  2 miles warm up over to York High School track.  3x800 in 3:23, 3:24, and 3:19.  Back to the weekly Yasso 800's.  This is the same track shown in the movie "The Long Green Line" about 80 year old Coach Joe Newton and his cross country running team.  He's had 26 state championships in 50 years of coaching.  Amazing!  It's a great documentary.  He gets nearly 200 kids out for cross country every year.  Flying out early tomorrow, so probably won't get a run in.  When we get home we have turn around and go back in to SLC for the McCartney concert and then all the fun is done and it's back to the office.

Asics 2150 Gold #1 Miles: 6.00
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5 miles from house to 2.5 miles in Settlement Canyon.  11:45 a.m. in nearly 90 degree temperatures.  But...it's dry heat, as they say.  It did feel good to be back home and out of the heat AND humidity of upstate New York and Chicago.  45:36, average pace 9:07.  Paul McCartney concert later tonight and back to the office tomorrow.

Asics 2150 Gold #2 Miles: 5.00
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5 miles at 5:10 a.m.  47:55, quite slow.  Only 4 hours sleep.  (Got home quite late from the McCartney concert, which was excellent.  68 years old and the dude played for nearly 3 hours, non-stop, no intermission, no warm-up band,  It was fantastic!)  

Left knee bugging me a bit this morning.  Cooler temperature felt good.  2nd run tonight planned if Planning Commission runs short.

5 mile tempo run at 7:45 p.m. in 40:09, 8:02 average pace.  Splits: 8:15, 8:03, 8:18, 7:55, 7:36. 75 degrees.  Felt decent.  A good run.

Asics 2150 Gold #2 Miles: 5.00Asics 2150 Gold #3 Miles: 5.00
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5 mile recovery run. 47:20. Skyline to gate and back via Loma Vista and Upland loops. A bit cooler this morning. Felt nice.

Asics 2150 Gold #2 Miles: 5.00
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5 miles at 5:10 a.m. in 47:25.  Conditions about identical to yesterday.  Lacking sleep again.  James Taylor/Carole King concert last night was great.

Asics 2150 Gold #2 Miles: 5.00
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6.008.0014.00

14 mile long run in 2:03:25, 8:48 average pace on the Smelter Road hills and a mile into Middle Canyon and back home.  Splits were: 10:02, 9:16, 8:41, 9:35, 9:04, 8:28, 8:17, 8:05, 7:38, 9:01, 9:27, 8:26, 8:52, and 8:25.  Several other runner out this morning on the hill.  75 degrees and warming but overcast.  Felt good most of the run.  Didn't push it much.  Knees feeling okay.

Asics 2150 Gold #3 Miles: 14.00
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Asics 2150 Gold #1 Miles: 6.00Asics 2150 Gold #2 Miles: 20.00Asics 2150 Gold #3 Miles: 19.00
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