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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
Totals
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
32.001.0033.00
Asics 2150 Gold #4 Miles: 28.00Saucony Peregrine Trail Miles: 5.00
Mon, Aug 01, 2011
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
5.000.005.00

5:00 a.m. at the gym for 40 minutes of elliptical.  Avoiding the cycles until my sore tailbone starts feeling better.

6:15 p.m. 5 mile run.  A tad cooler, but high humidity for Utah.  Through town up into Middle Canyon a bit and then back home. 

Asics 2150 Gold #4 Miles: 5.00
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Tue, Aug 02, 2011
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
4.001.005.00

5:00 a.m. at the gym for 40 minutes.  20 minutes elliptical and 20 minutes cycling (10 upright + 10 recumbent).

5:30 p.m. 5 mile run.  Hills in Settlement Canyon.  Worked on form and cadence a bit.  I've always been an over-strider.  Still only hitting 176 strides per minute even when concentrating on it.  Usually slower rate than that is my norm.  Got home just before the thunder storm.  Raining pretty good right now here in Tooele. 

Asics 2150 Gold #4 Miles: 5.00
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Wed, Aug 03, 2011
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
6.000.006.00

5:00 a.m. at the gym.  20 minutes on elliptical and 20 minutes cycling.

Got home an hour early from a seminar so took a nice nap for an hour.   

8:00 p.m.  6 mile run mostly easy.  West side allies and west loop past USU campus to C&G Construction, past the Community Learning Center and home vis THS and 200 W.  A nice evening run.

 

Asics 2150 Gold #4 Miles: 6.00
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Thu, Aug 04, 2011
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
5.000.005.00

5:00 a.m. at the gym for 40 minutes.  20 min. elliptical and 20 minutes cycling.

7:00 p.m. 5 mile trail run to top of Little Mountain and over to the water tank and back down to Skyline.  Home via 400 S.  EZ running.  Feeling okay.

Saucony Peregrine Trail Miles: 5.00
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Fri, Aug 05, 2011
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
4.000.004.00

5:00 a.m. 4 mile run up Skyline to end of asphalt and back.

Asics 2150 Gold #4 Miles: 4.00
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Sat, Aug 06, 2011
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
8.000.008.00

7:30 a.m. 8 mile run to Middle Canyon, up above the gas line to first campground and back direct.  Pretty steep in places and pretty slow today.  Nice and cool in the canyon.  33 miles this week.

10:00 a.m. at the gym.  30 minutes elliptical and 30 minutes cycling (15 upright and 15 recumbent).  15-20  minutes weights.   Lt. upper body 3x15 on 6 machines.  Felt good today. 

Asics 2150 Gold #4 Miles: 8.00
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Totals
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
32.001.0033.00
Asics 2150 Gold #4 Miles: 28.00Saucony Peregrine Trail Miles: 5.00
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