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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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Another easy 5 miles in full sweats this morning.  Felt okay into the breeze, but too warm coming back.

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Last run with decent temperatures for a while.  5 miles fairly easy, into wind going out.  44:41

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Easy 5 again this morning.  Lt. rain to snow.  Roads O.K.  About 9 min. pace.  Felt okay.

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A cold morning at around 30 degrees.  Standard 5 mile route at 5:10 a.m.  Saw 3 other runners out this morning along my route.  My running partners havn't shown up on weekday mornings since before the marathon at St. George.  I think they've given up for winter.  Another friend is great at meeting me every Saturday morning and she is a very committed runner.  Need to get registered tomorrow for the Cold Turkey 6K Rrrun at City Creek Canyon on Thanksgiving morning.

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5 Miles in the daylight.  Had an doctor's appointment this morning so I didn't have to run at 5 a.m. for a change.  Saw 15 head of deer in the field near the canyon rim before turning back at Grimm's gate on Skyline.  Decent run at easy 9 min. pace.  Got registered for the Cold Turkey 6K Rrrun in City Creek Canyon for Thanksgiving morning.  I hope the weather is decent and the roads are clear that day.

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Absoultely fabulous day for a run.  8:30 a.m.with Tina.  She always pushes me good on the downhills and is great to train with.  We did essentially a loop around town.  Vine St., Droubay Rd. North to Pine Canyon, back into town behind Wal-Mart over to Coleman and back home along 200 W.  A great fall training run.  Felt good.  10 miles in 1:22:54, 8:17 pace overall.  Fastest mile was 7:27.  Slowest was 8:51.

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