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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
Totals
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
32.004.0036.00
Saucony Pro Guide 6 #1 Miles: 5.00Saucony Pro Guide 6 #2 Miles: 22.00Saucony Guide4 #3 Miles: 9.00
Mon, Dec 09, 2013
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
3.002.005.00

5:00 a.m. Gold's Gym: 40 minutes upright stationary cycling. 10.66 miles.

6:30 a.m. Gold's Gym: 5 TM miles in 43:43.

Saucony Pro Guide 6 #1 Miles: 5.00
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Tue, Dec 10, 2013
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
3.002.005.00

Bagged AM workout.

6:30 p.m. Gold's Gym: 5 TM miles in 43:47, progression run.

Saucony Pro Guide 6 #2 Miles: 5.00
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Wed, Dec 11, 2013
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
5.000.005.00

5:00 a.m. Gold's Gym: 40 minutes upright stationary cycling, 10 miles.

6:30 p.m. Gold's Gym: 5 TM miles in 45:35. Slight progression.

Saucony Guide4 #3 Miles: 5.00
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Thu, Dec 12, 2013
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
5.000.005.00

5:00 a.m. Gold's Gym: 3x15x6 machines upper body weights plus 20 minutes recumbent cycling.

3:00 p.m. 5 miles to mouth of Middle Canyon and back via cemetery in 45:00. Sunny and clear, but cold at 25 degrees.

Saucony Pro Guide 6 #2 Miles: 5.00
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Fri, Dec 13, 2013
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
4.000.004.00

5:00 a.m. Gold's Gym: 4 TM miles in 35:55.

Saucony Guide4 #3 Miles: 4.00
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Sat, Dec 14, 2013
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
12.000.0012.00

Ivins, Utah. 12 miles in 1:51:09 along the Snow Canyon Parkway path and down Halfway Wash path to Dixie Drive. Back home via path behind Snow Canyon High School and Pioneer Parkway. Sunny and clear. 42 degrees.

Saucony Pro Guide 6 #2 Miles: 12.00
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Totals
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
32.004.0036.00
Saucony Pro Guide 6 #1 Miles: 5.00Saucony Pro Guide 6 #2 Miles: 22.00Saucony Guide4 #3 Miles: 9.00
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