| Location: Mesa,AZ,USA Member Since: May 12, 2008 Gender: Male Goal Type: Other Running Accomplishments: I started running again in 2007 after 14 years of not running.
Mile - 4:59 (high school 1992), 5:57 (9/21/2010 ARR Open Mile)
2 mile - 11:10 (high school 1992)
5k - 21:54 (11/18/2010 Tempe Road Runners 5k)
10k - 48:29 (5/9/2009 Race for Hospice)
Unofficial 10k - 47:11 (1/27/2011 Red Mountain Park)
1/2 marathon - 1:49:00 (4/4/2009 Havasu Half)
Marathon - 4:33:09 (11/21/2009 Mesquite Marathon) Short-Term Running Goals: Run a half marathon in under two hours.
Run a marathon in close to 4 hours. Long-Term Running Goals: Stay healthy long enough to live through the millenium. Personal: I am married and have six kids.
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2010 Kimball Stake Turkey Trot (3.03 Miles) 00:21:30, Place overall: 5, Place in age division: 2 | |
This morning was the Kimball Stake annual Turkey Trot. This would be my first year doing it. The last three years I've run the Turkey Trot in the Alta Mesa Stake. I figured I should support my own stake this year.
They don't tell you how far you have to run. They show you a map and you guess your time. No watches allowed. That way, everyone has a shot of winning. You know what they say. In the Mormon Church, everyone's a winner. Looking at the map I could see that we have to run from Southern to Baseline. That there's two miles. The rest didn't look like it was much more than half a mile. So I guessed my time would be 18 minutes and 45 seconds. Since it was 3.03 miles, I was way off.
At the starting line everyone packed in including the cyclists and the kids. I heard three young guys behind me talking. One of them said he's only ran one timed mile and it was like a 4:40 something. I almost let him take my spot at the front of the starting line, but I didn't. The race started and the three young guys quickly passed me. We ran out of the church parking lot and made an immediate right at the next block. We ran to the end of the street and turned left. I knew we had to take a right at the end of the next block to head over to the canal. However, the leaders turned left. They had cones at every turn, but there wasn't one here. I slowed down and some guys on bikes asked which way to go. I said, "Left. I think those guys went the wrong way." So I turned left and hoped I wasn't going to lead everyone in the church the wrong way. That's how the Fundamentalist Church got started.
When I got to the canal I saw another cone, so my apostate fears had subsided. I ran down to Baseline and looked to see how close people were behind me. There was one guy hot on my tail and a couple of other people not too far back. We turned on to 32nd Street and I saw a former Ragnar teammate. Actually she saw me. She was just out running and didn't realize the Turkey Trot was going on. I also saw the three young guys coming the opposite direction. I chose to state the obvious and told them they went the wrong way. They knew. They knew.
When I turned on Jerome I got passed by a guy that looked to be about 10 years my elder. He was running strong. Shortly after that the first young guy passed me, then the other two. I wondered how close I'd be to my guestimated time. Then we came to the only "hill" as we went over the bridge crossing the US60. I knew there was only about three quarters of a mile left. My legs were pretty shot from my 11 mile run Tuesday, so I had no chance at catching up. We ran up to Southern and turned around. When my older rival ran by me I put my hand out to give him five. I was letting him know that I was okay with him passing me. Today, he was the better man.
Here's a picture of my daughter and me before the race. She's my only kid that ran with me.
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