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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 Blue #1 Miles: 23.00Asics 2150 Gold #3 Miles: 10.00
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5 easy miles at 5:05 a.m.  1 mile or so with Liz and Roland.  Hamstring still bugging me some today, even with it wrapped.

Asics 2150 Blue #1 Miles: 5.00
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5 miles at 9:00 a.m. along the double track trails behind Little Mountain.  Beautiful sunny morning.  Very easy running.  Hamstring troublesome at about 3 miles, but shorter, quicker strides helped out a lot.  A bit encouraged today.

 

Asics 2150 Blue #1 Miles: 5.00
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4 miles easy at 5:10 a.m.  Skyline route to end of pavement and back.

Asics 2150 Blue #1 Miles: 4.00
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5 miles untimed at 5:10 a.m.  Standard Skyline Route.  Easy.  Hamstring felt a bit better than yesterday.  Trying not to overstride.

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4 miles easy at 5:10 a.m.  53 degrees.  Skyline out and back.  Felt really good for the first 3+ miles and then some more hamstring issues.  This injury may take a while, but I'm just happy to have made it through the marathon and still running.

Asics 2150 Blue #1 Miles: 4.00
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10 mile run in Settlement Canyon and along the Dark Trail and back with Tina in 1:33:18, 9:19 overall pace.  Encouraging run at first and then discouraging.  Hamstring had some more issues today and really grabbed me at about 7 miles.  I don't know what's going on with it.  Barely made it through the last 2 miles, running pretty slowly.  Glad I have some easy winter base mileage weeks coming up.  Maybe I can get this healed up.  I'd really like to do Snow Canyon 1/2 marathon in a couple of weeks, but it may be just a fun run through the canyon for me.  Boston Marathon registration opens on Monday.  Since I BQ'd at Ogden, we're thinking of going back for one more.  I hear it will fill up fast this year.  I want to have this injury behind me well before then.

Asics 2150 Gold #3 Miles: 10.00
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