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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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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
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
21.0017.0038.00
Saucony Pro Guide 6 #2 Miles: 21.00Asics 2000 Orange Miles: 5.00Saucony Pro Guide 6 #1 Miles: 12.00
Mon, Dec 23, 2013
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
5.001.006.00

9:00 a.m. 6 mile run with Tina. Loop to Golf Course and Smelter Road. 56:34.

Saucony Pro Guide 6 #2 Miles: 6.00
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Tue, Dec 24, 2013
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
0.0010.0010.00

8:30 a.m. 10 miles with the Tooele Running Club from top of Smelter Road (gate) down through town of Pine Canyon down Droubay Rd. through Erda to Bates Canyon Rd. 1:23:00.

Saucony Pro Guide 6 #2 Miles: 10.00
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Wed, Dec 25, 2013
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
0.000.000.00

REST. Merry Christmas!!!!

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Thu, Dec 26, 2013
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
5.000.005.00

7:30 a.m. Gold's Gym: 40 minutes upright cycling. 11.5 miles.

10:00 a.m. 5 miles easy with Pickles. Sunny, but cold. Skyline route to gate and back via Loma Vista and Upland. 5 dog encounters today. Glad Pickles was nice to ...4 of them, at least. All little dogs going after my black lab. What are they thinking? No, what are their owners thinking?

Asics 2000 Orange Miles: 5.00
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Fri, Dec 27, 2013
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
5.000.005.00

9:00 a.m. Gold's Gym - St. George. 3x15x8 machines upper body weights. 20 minutes recumbent cycling.

11:15 a.m. Ivins. 5 miles easy with Pickles. 47:49. Down to the Santa Clara cemetery and back by way of Old Highway 91 to Main up to 400 S. finishing with loop in Padre Lakes. Sunny and clear. 45 degrees and warming.

Saucony Pro Guide 6 #2 Miles: 5.00
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Sat, Dec 28, 2013
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
6.006.0012.00

9:00 a.m. Ivins, UT. 12 miles up into Snow Canyon to end of paved pathway including 2 on the West Canyon service road. 1:45:31. 10.5 miles with Rick, then he put nearly 3 minutes on me in the last 1.5 miles. 40 degrees and cloudy. Still beats the weather and gunk up north. Another week here in St. George will do me some good!

Saucony Pro Guide 6 #1 Miles: 12.00
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Totals
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
21.0017.0038.00
Saucony Pro Guide 6 #2 Miles: 21.00Asics 2000 Orange Miles: 5.00Saucony Pro Guide 6 #1 Miles: 12.00
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