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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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3 mile test run on the TM.  27:25.  Some pain at 1.5, but not real bad, like Saturday.  Just enough to let me know it's there.  Need to decide about  extended time off after testing it out this week.  Will try the next couple of days and see if it worsens.  Ran well last week until Saturday, so if that happens again, I guess it's resting and/or the stationary bike for the month of December.

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4 miles on TM in 36:30.  Progression from 10:00 min. pace to 8:30 pace.  Still feeling it some after 2.5.  Still not like Saturday.

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3 TM miles after work.  Very easy starting out at 10:00 pace and increasing throughout to about 7:40 pace at the end.  Hamstring is still bugging me, but ran through it to see how it responded afterwards.  Somewhat sore all evening after icing.  Will try an easy 8 miler for Saturday's run, but if it grabs me like last week, I guess I'll be off the rest of the month and do some cross training on the bike.

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8 mile solo run this morning.  Wrapped hamstring tight and had no real issues.  Just a hint.  Pace was extremely slow overall, around 10:00 min. pace.  Somewhat encouraging run.

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