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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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12 mile relaxed run in Indianapolis.  Beautiful day!

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Easy run in Logan

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Christmas tree and lights all morning with the kids and the whole rest of the day at the Layton wave pool.  Nice day off

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Easy run..

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10 mile tempo run at 5:50 pace on the stinking treadmill.

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Quick run on a busy day

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Just fit in a quick 5 miler in a day of putting in an engine in the neighbor's car, a new water heater for my dad, and a couple hours in court.

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Short run on Venice beach, LA.  Nice evening

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Race: Rocket City Marathon (26.2 Miles) 02:56:21
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So nice to have a marathon with no pressure, just for fun.  I had a Nashville overnight, just two hours away from Huntsville and just enough time to drive down the night before and drive back after the race. 

Fun marathon, but I have never ran this many 90 degree turns in a race before.  It was all over the city.  I wouldn't recommend this one for anyone looking for a fast time, but great hospitality!

I'm excited now to get into the training mode again

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Day off, enjoying Portland.

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Beautiful evening run along the Nashville river trail after work.  One week of this "fun running" until it's time to do a little real training again.  I read a good article today in a Triathlon magazine flying in this afternoon.  Been thinking a bit about it today.  The basic idea was that each athlete's potential is like a ladder, with rungs all the way up.  The top rung represents your top potential and the rungs down are levels you can perform at.  Athletes perform at different rungs of their individual ladder, most far down from the top.  Some reach a new rung on the ladder and feel it's the top rung and spend years training to that rung, back up and  down.  Some good athletes train rung to rung, reaching plateaus each time and having to find some new technique or level of training each time to have a "breakthrough" to the next rung.  The author was focusing on masters and the question of how much performance is lost as a result of age.  His idea was that you began to lose a few rungs off the ladder as you get older, but that your current level probably isn't affected since most of us perform so far down our ladder anyways due to family priorities, bad training or plain laziness.  I think it helps explain why we are seeing more focused older athletes doing some crazy times.  It's why you feel, what the #$%&, I can run so much faster than this!, sometimes.  Maybe that's why I love marathoning.  There's something about the sport that makes you want to discipline yourself, to strive for consistency in something that is so easy to do great or to fail miserably in.  It's like your heart seems to know that the top rung is so way above what you are doing, that the process of figuring out how to get to it or what's worth sacrifing to get there, is more fun than the race.  Every now and then just getting a glimpse of that top rung is a bigger rush than winning.

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Nice run in the sun outside the airport perimeter in Denver

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Hit the treadmill this morning since it was foggy and cold.  7 miles at 7:30 pace and felt pretty good so I changed plans and picked it up to 6 min pace for the last 5.  Long run on a treadmill for me.

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Cold run in the early morning fog about -60 degrees.

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Running the treadmill again..

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Off day.  Kids activities all day

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Easy run with the kids in the stroller

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14 hour workday, blah.

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Finally a day with time for a run.  Hit the Mormon trail above east Vegas this afternoon for a nice trail run in the sun.

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Sweet day off..

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I hit the trail as soon as we got into San Antonio this afternoon.  75 degrees and sunny.  Sweet.  Looking forward to a week here with friends and the kids don't even know I'm around, they have so many friends to play with.  Love it. 

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Easy five out on the trail, San Antonio

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Out in the pouring rain today at 43 degrees so I froze.  Then we did a P90X legs and arms followed by the "Ab Ripper".  Thats a sweet Christmas Eve workout.  Spent the rest of the day in Fredericksburg's old German town.  Of any country that I've spent Christamas in, the Germans do it best.

 

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Simple run to say I ran on Christmas, Ha Ha!

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Easy run alone behind the house

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Fun group run on the west San Antonio River Walk and what I call the dead Armadillo trail.

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Last run on the Texas trails.  I havn't done a run with a pace faster than 9 min miles in a week, running with friends here, but it's been great company!

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Got back into Utah today just in time to run a hard 16 miler with Rob.  This one didn't feel good until mile 15.  I'm so far out of shape right now it's embarrassing. 

But the general slackness does feel comfortable..

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Out above my house along the Deer Fence trail for a 60 degree run in the sun.

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I volunteered for a trip over new Years Eve since it's a 3 day trip at an all inclusive resort on the coast of the Dominican Republic and I only have to fly one leg for 3 days of pay.  The first day, today, just consisted of the company flying me down so I decided to go early on the red eye last night and do a stop in Miami for a day on the beach.  I figured I could sleep on the plane.  The flight was full so I settled into the jumpseat up front and after the initial climb I took the two jumpseats apart and made a bed on the floor of the cockpit.  An hour into the flight though, the plane lost two hydraulic systems and things got busy.  I had to spend the next three hours helping the guys and we ended up diverting to New York.  Even had to manually extend the landing gear and land with no thrust reversers or nosewheel steering.  Good times...We swapped planes and finally headed down to Miami.  I still had 6 hours until the flight and it was such a beautiful day that I changed clothes in the rampers crew room and headed on foot out of the airport to the beach. 

It's a lot longer to get to the beach than it looks from the air.  Dang.  84 degrees today and it about killed me, but what a great run.  It's also a good time going through security in sweaty running clothes and no bags.  I just had enough time to grab a shower and get to the plane.  I have a whole day tomorrow to get in a good run in the DR and maybe even get the chance for a quick trip to Haiti.  Running through some of those neighborhoods is one of the most eye opening things you can ever do.  Every American should be forced to do it once in their lifetime!

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