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Location:

Bountiful,Ut,USA

Member Since:

Sep 22, 2009

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

 

5k  18:44  4 July 2012 C-ville 
10K  38:22  24 July 2012 DesNews
Half  1:22:30  18 Aug 2012  Hobble 
Full  3:00:35  29 Sep 2012 Huntsville

Short-Term Running Goals:

Sign up for a race > 5k, run well.

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

Keep on running. 

 

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Trails Lifetime Miles: 551.40
Grass Lifetime Miles: 72.50
Pavement Lifetime Miles: 2225.20
Stroller Lifetime Miles: 438.80
Navy Crocs Lifetime Miles: 378.70
Nordic Track TM Lifetime Miles: 1015.77
Green Mirage 2 Lifetime Miles: 494.70
Orange Mirage 3 Lifetime Miles: 514.90
Glow In The Dark Mirage 3 Lifetime Miles: 461.25
Navy Blue Mirage Lifetime Miles: 216.90
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
23.700.0023.70
Pavement Miles: 23.70While Mirage 2 Miles: 17.20Stroller Miles: 6.50Kinvara Miles: 6.50
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
6.200.006.20

Gorgeous night.  I overdressed with a long sleeve shirt, and brought and iPod I didn't listen to at all.  I'm too old to be making rookie mistakes.  Jens came with, and ran 10k for the first time ever-- 53ish minutes.  Of course we were going much easier than he plans to do the race, but a good confidence builder for him to go the distance.  

Baseball is over.  Is there anything else worth watching?  It's going to be a long 5 months until April.   I can already sense that lots of neglected house chores will be completed over the winter.  There must be a correlation between being inside and seeing all the stuff that needs to be buttoned up and actually doing it.  

Pavement Miles: 6.20While Mirage 2 Miles: 6.20
Comments(2)
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
11.000.0011.00

Happy Halloween.  After inspecting my girls' loot from trick or treating, Jens and I ran to Fresh Market to scope out the leftover candy.  They didn't have much.  During the run he told me running wasn't his thing.  He'd given it enough of a try.  I told him fine.  You gotta run your own race.  .25 miles from home, with an uphill finish, I told Jens he wouldn't be sprinting ahead and beating me home tonight.  Despite my 93.2% effort, he matched me.  That kid has more spit in him than I thought.  Too bad running is so boring.  He went in to eat his Halloween candy, and Tami met us at the door.  I asked her if she wanted to go for a run.  She did.  I recovered on the porch while she changed, and we headed north instead of south.  It was a perfect night, with moon, and still.  We didn't leave till almost 10, so the roads were pretty quiet.  We had a nice visit, and to my surprise, she wanted to do 6.  I was pretty tired, and dinner wasn't agreeing with me by the end; I thought I'd be up all night and missing work today with flu.  To no avail, thank goodness, although I wouldn't have minded missing work.  If a perfect night to run 11 miles exists, last night was it.

 

Pavement Miles: 11.00While Mirage 2 Miles: 11.00
Comments(4)
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
6.500.006.50

2 bikes, 1 stroller, 1 flat, too many cars.  I didn't like this run, but we all got home safely, despite the best efforts of inattentive drivers and little girls.  Lucky.

Pavement Miles: 6.50Stroller Miles: 6.50Kinvara Miles: 6.50
Comments(3)
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
23.700.0023.70
Pavement Miles: 23.70While Mirage 2 Miles: 17.20Stroller Miles: 6.50Kinvara Miles: 6.50
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