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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 miles around the plazas and peatonal in Resistencia Argentina.  7:30 a.m.

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4 miler around the plaza and peatonal in Resistencia, Argentina.

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5K on treadmill at NH Latino Hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina.  2 blocks from the obelisco.

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Rest.  No running.  Flights home from Argentina.

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Rest.  No running.  Travel to St. George.

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Race: St. George Marathon (26.2 Miles) 03:46:09
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St. George Marathon. 3:46:11 unofficial time from my Garmin.  Not disappointed with the time considering the issues I've had to deal with this year since the sacral stress fracture in late March.  Went out a bit too strong, hoping to be able to hold it for a BQ, but wasn't the day for it.  Set goals of 3:35 ultimate, 3:45 challenging, and sub 4:00 acceptable, so I feel okay with my time.  Didn't run negative splits, but I knew that was a possibility.  1:48 for first half and 1:58 for the second.  Hit the wall around 18, a pinch in my hip around 14, and general intestinal issues that I knew would happen after having been in Argentina for the last 10 days, getting back just in time to head down for the marathon.  Overall I feel pretty good about it.  Fastest mile was mile 6, or going down into Veyo at a 7:24 pace.  Slowest was mile 22 when I hit the wall, 9:35 pace.  Bit of a second wind from mile 24 on in.  This was marathon number 25, and number 17 at SGM.  SGM is a great event!  I need to get caught up on logging my minimal running mileage in Argentina.

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