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Snow Canyon 1/2 Marathon

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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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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
8.1022.4230.52
Asics 2000 Aqua #4 Miles: 27.00Asics 2000 Aqua #3 Miles: 3.10
Mon, Oct 30, 2017
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
5.000.005.00

5 miles to Grimm's Gate and back on Skyline Ave. Slow. 9:46 A.P.

Asics 2000 Aqua #4 Miles: 5.00
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Tue, Oct 31, 2017
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
0.004.004.00

West side loop, 4 miles at 9:12 A.P.

Asics 2000 Aqua #4 Miles: 4.00
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Wed, Nov 01, 2017
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
0.005.325.32

5.32 miles on the Stansbury Park flatland loop.  9:09 A.P.

Asics 2000 Aqua #4 Miles: 5.00
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Thu, Nov 02, 2017
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
3.100.003.10

5:00 A.M. run.  Slow and sluggish 3 miles at 10:15 A.P.  Half asleep.

Asics 2000 Aqua #3 Miles: 3.10
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Sat, Nov 04, 2017
Race: Snow Canyon 1/2 Marathon (13.1 Miles) 01:52:44, Place overall: 399, Place in age division: 5
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
0.0013.1013.10

Snow Canyon 1/2 Marathon. 1:52:44. 8:36 A.P. 5th of 24 in M60-64 Division.  200/443 Men's Race.  399/1313 Total field. 

What's hapenng with men's road racing in the 21st century?  According to the race results there were a total of 1313 finishers this year.  Only 443 of those were male runners. That's just 34%.  I know that women have been outnumbering the men for quite a while in the 1/2 marathon, and likely other distances, but is this ratio pretty typical for all 1/2 marathons right now?  Seems a bit more out of balance than ever.  Come on guys!

Women's racing is generally more exciting to watch however.  Many major marathons have closer and exciting finishes with the women's race than with the men.  It was great to see Shalane Fanagan put away the field in the final 5K yesterday at the NYC Marathon! 

Asics 2000 Aqua #4 Miles: 13.00
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Totals
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
8.1022.4230.52
Asics 2000 Aqua #4 Miles: 27.00Asics 2000 Aqua #3 Miles: 3.10
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