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Location:

Salt Lake City,UT,USA

Member Since:

Sep 25, 2007

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Marathon Finish

Running Accomplishments:

All running accomplishments are Post Teenage Years:

17:06 5K--Murray 2014

16:58 5K (aided)--Running of the Leopards 2010

34:41--10K Deseret News 2018 (aided)

1:16--(aided) Hobble Creek Half 2009

2:43--St. George Marathon 2012

Short-Term Running Goals:

Sub 2:50 Ogden Marathon

Sub 17:00 at Draper 5K

Long-Term Running Goals:

Sub 2:40 Marathon

 

Personal:

Married to Elizabeth (she got me running in 2003). We have three boys, Lucas (12) , Sam (8) and Ollie (5).

Many years ago, I read that the AVERAGE male is capable of a 2:40 marathon.  I decided to test that theory.  I began running in 2003 with Top of Utah as my first marathon (4:24).  I need 3 more minutes.

"Life is short...running makes it seem longer."--Baron Hansen

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Mon, Jan 30, 2012
Total Distance
10.55

AM: 7.05 miles.  Morning run after a hard ski day on Sunday.  It was a pleasant morning for a run (no rain, snow or ice)!

PM: 3.5 miles.   I ran to they gym and back, but on the return I was mauled by a boxer/pit bull mix.  He just nipped at me and jumped on me, but still a little scary.  I stopped and its owner was screaming at him or her.  Once the dog ran back to the owner, I continued running, but the dog came at me again!  I was never really super scared, but one good bite and you are done running for a while.

On to much cooler items; I did a long group run on Saturday and ran into Richard Carling.  Pretty incredible guy.  Check out his story here (could not get link tool work, so go old school and copy/paste):

http://www.stgeorgemarathon.com/legends/display1.php

Off to PHX in the morning, so I'm sure my running will suffer.

 

Comments
From allie on Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:14:33 from 97.126.211.101

nice running. hope the skiing was good yesterday -- it sure was great weather!

From MarkP on Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 22:45:12 from 174.19.57.216

Skiing was great! I saw you guys had some fun snow shoeing. Now that's a hard sport!

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