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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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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
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
Totals
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
43.001.0044.00
Asics 2170 Gray Miles: 29.00Saucony Guide4 #3 Miles: 14.00Nike Free Miles: 1.00
Mon, Jul 30, 2012
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
10.000.0010.00

5:00 a.m.  5 easy miles with Pickles on Skyline route to gate and back via Upland and 400 S. loops.

6:15 p.m.  5 miles in 46:36 through town to mouth of Middle Canyon and back direct.   

Asics 2170 Gray Miles: 5.00Saucony Guide4 #3 Miles: 5.00
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Tue, Jul 31, 2012
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
4.001.005.00

5:00 a.m.  Gym with Sharon.  3 x 15 x 6 machines, light upper body weight reps.

5:30 p.m.  5 miles in Settlement Canyon.  Warm but overcast. 

Asics 2170 Gray Miles: 5.00
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Wed, Aug 01, 2012
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
9.000.009.00

5:30 a.m.  4 miles on Skyline to end of asphalt and back.  Pickles met J. Dog with Liz this morning.  He also got very distracted by the deer on the mountain as we came back by the cemetery.

5:00 p.m.  5 miles.  46:00.  Hot outside!  To SR36 down the alley paths to 200 North then my Wonder Years loops around the Jr. High School and High School grass fields. 

Asics 2170 Gray Miles: 5.00Saucony Guide4 #3 Miles: 4.00
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Thu, Aug 02, 2012
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
5.000.005.00

5:00 a.m. 5 miles slow and easy with Pickles on Skyline to end of gate and back via Upland loop.  Liz and J-dog out again this morning.

Saucony Guide4 #3 Miles: 5.00
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Fri, Aug 03, 2012
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
5.000.005.00

6:15 a.m.  Ivins, UT.  4 mile run with Pickles to Old Highway 91 and NW a bit.  Back direct.  Very slow.

7:30 a.m.  St. George Gold's Gym with Sharon.  3 x 15 x 7 machines on upper body weights.  30 minutes upright stationary cycling.  1 TM mile with Nike Free mid-foot strike run.  10 minutes easy on elliptical. 

Nike Free Miles: 1.00Asics 2170 Gray Miles: 4.00
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Sat, Aug 04, 2012
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
10.000.0010.00

6:30 a.m.  Ivins, UT.  10 miles from our place up Snow Canyon to end of the paved trail (precisely 5 miles) and back the same.  A few more runners and cyclists out this morning, along with some of the Biggest Loser folks I saw along the way.  A very nice morning.  A good week.

Asics 2170 Gray Miles: 10.00
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Totals
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
43.001.0044.00
Asics 2170 Gray Miles: 29.00Saucony Guide4 #3 Miles: 14.00Nike Free Miles: 1.00
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