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Location:

Salt Lake City,UT,

Member Since:

Nov 14, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

50k:  4:59 at Buffalo Run in 2010  (32 miles)

Marathon:  3:01 at St. George in 2009!

Half:  1:29 at Painter's/ St. George in 2009.  1:27 at Salt Lake in 2009 (aided course)

10k: 40:53 Greek Festival 10k at Sugar House park in 2010.

5miles: 32:10 Dam 2 Dam in 2009.  Master's winner.

5k: 20:00:00  19:54 in May 2010.

2008:  Ran the Slam + Boston

I need to update this!

Short-Term Running Goals:

Carpe Diem.

Don't trip over my own feet.

Long-Term Running Goals:

Keep running.

Personal:

1 wife

1 girl child

1 boy child

1 big dog

1 little dog

I'm a geologist for my day job.

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It is a regular winter wonderland around here, which would be better if tomorrow were the first day of March, not May.

In order to keep my shoes dry for a while, I decided to run up City Creek Canyon on the road to start with.  I made it to the Grotto (almost the end of the road) before it got deeper than I wanted to post hole.  At that point the powder was at about the bottom of my shins.  Ran back down the canyon road then took BST to the lower tower, then home.  The trail wasn't too snowy, but I'd have preferred more snow.  In places the mud was kind of awful.  One stretch climbing out of the canyon was like trying to run up softened butter- a bit gooey, a bit squishy, and two bits slick.

Garmin said 10:59 pace, but who cares. 

Comments
From Mack on Sun, May 02, 2010 at 04:52:16 from 71.111.186.66

Sounds like a fun run. Glad you didn't go down in the mud, it sounds like it was pretty slick. I wish we had some snow here once in a while. We've got plenty of mud!

From Rhett on Mon, May 03, 2010 at 13:58:17 from 74.41.249.102

Fly, I'm constantly amazed at the conditions which you run in... and I'm not just talking about the weather.

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