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Location:

Logan,UT,USA

Member Since:

Dec 15, 2009

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

PRs after age 40:

 

5k     15:15  Running of the Leopards.

8k      22:21  Alta Death Dash

10k   33:02    Des News

Half Marathon      1:10  Timp Half

Marathon        2:32    Ogden

First solo R2R2R Bass Trails Grand Canyon 

First R2R2R Grand Canyon Toroweap Overlook

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

Not be fat all year

Long-Term Running Goals:

Smell the dirt, feel the mountain, taste the wind.

Personal:

 

"Our legs are tight, our feet are flying, and we are gliding over the roll of the land. The sun is up, the air is fresh, the stone is old, and we are free and at peace. The clock has stopped because another time has taken over." C. Bowden

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10 miles in Logan.

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8 miles easy in lake Charles, LA.  Legs feeling good!

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Beautiful long easy run out in the bayou, Lake Charles.  3rd run into my easy mileage weeks.  easing into 3 weeks of 80 mile target, long and easy baby!  Then it's time to hit it again.

 Really tickled today that the downhill 8K at Alta before the marathon with Rob and others has perturbed some "Brooks athletes" on our sponsor list.  Apparently Brooks ranks their sponsored athletes and even though I have been so slow this fall a 23 minute 8K bumps me into 4th nationally and some guys complained!  I have no idea what the "assisted" or "hard" courses are, most of this is for fun.  It's just cool to see a race we go to for the barbeque and company get some feathers ruffled!  

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13 easy miles along the Gulf of Mexico.  Undecided if this place is pretty or not, but cool gators!

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Ran 10 miles though the north neighborhoods of Westlake, LA.  Awesome morning!

 

Core lifting in the afternoon after work at the hotel

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10 easy miles around the lake in Lake Charles, LA

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Started out the hotel for a run and the concierge stopped me and told me under no conditions to go run in the area since it was 11pm.  She said there were gangs everywhere so I had to settle for the treadmill..

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10 miles easy on the gym treadmill.  BORING

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Race: Red ribbon 5K (3.2 Miles) 00:15:59, Place overall: 2, Place in age division: 1
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The kids and I went and ran this race with the neighbors.  Shelby and Natalie decided to run the 1 mile kids race so they ran with the neighbor kids and Natalie finished second overall!  I ran the 5k and battled back and forth with Carson (14 years old!) who just ran the TOU half in 1:17.  This kid wants to win more than any kid that age I've ever seen.  I must have passed him 4 times and he passed me back immediately.  We were laughing so hard at the end!  Tendon felt great even though I ran in flats for the first time in 5 months.

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6 easy

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8 nice and easy with the girls

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8 miles with the double stroller and two girls.

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10 miles easy in the morning

 

1.5 hours raquetball afternoon

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Up camping with the family in Blacksmith Fork canyon and found a really cool single track trail.  It was actually fun to run again for a bit! 

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8 miles again on the trail out of the left hand fork.  Awesome run and really hard.  12:01 minute pace up and under 6 down!

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Race: Beat the Heat (3.2 Miles) 00:17:12, Place overall: 4, Place in age division: 1
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I was down in Salt lake with my son for the weekend so this race fit in perfect before he got out of bed Saturday morning!  I was looking forward to seeing how my recovery was going and if the longer runs of the week had left a mark.  I thought this was a downhill course until I talked to my uncle, a police officer running security for the race, where the course was and he laughed.  It was one of the hilliest courses I have run for a bit!

We started out pretty slow and I was enjoying it since I didn't have a watch on.  But then it turned up the hills into the Avenues and started getting fun.  As we came back and started up the hill, a guy passed me and said something to the effect of, "come on you can make it, don't give up yet, keep it up".  That was it.  Just not cool to say that to an old guy.  It took me nearly a half a mile to pass him and put a gap between us.  :)

The ramp up to mileage has not seemed to affect that tandon so it's time to start getting some miles in again, yes!

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Off day!

OK, got in to DC and it was too pretty a night so I did a nice 5 miler

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15 miles in DC.  What a city!

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10 miles along the Legacy trail in Salt Lake in the early afternoon.  I love these semi long easy run weeks.  All I have to shoot for is 70 miles at whatever pace floats my boat.

1 hour 10 minutes

 

An hour and a half getting my butt kicked by John at raquetball tonight.

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I flew home from DC today and spent the afternoon with the girls watching them taking horse riding lessons.  It was an awesome afternoon.  There is just nothing like watching your kids enjoying life.

I still had to get those 10 miles in so I headed out into the cold about 10pm.  It was a perfect fall night with a full moon, this is what running is all about.

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Headed out of the terminal at Denver airport after getting through customs and took off into the Colorado plains towards Kansas.  Only ran 10 miles though, but what a pretty night, the calm before the storm tomorrow.  Pace right around 7 min miles

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10 miles on the legacy trail

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5 miles morning, 5 at night

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Nice lazy Sunday!

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In court all day, but ran during lunch

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Supposed to be long easy today but my legs felt pretty fresh so I decided to get a tempo workout in.  10 miles just under 1 hour.  Felt great!

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5 miles on the treadmill

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Easy 8 miles on the treadmill at the gym.  Seems like this is the only way to get the miles in sometimes

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10 miles early in the dark.  Kind of fun though..

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Ate lots of candy today..

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Had to be on call today in Denver, no fun.  But I at least had the time to head out and go for a long nice run.  73 degrees today in Denver!

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