| Location: Orem,UT,USA Member Since: Apr 03, 2006 Gender: Male Goal Type: Age Division Winner Running Accomplishments: HS/COLLEGE:
mile: 4:56, 2 mile: 10:21 (1978)
marathon: 2:52 (St. George 1982)
OLD MAN (20+ years later):
5K: 19:53 (Nestle/Art City Days 5K 2007)
10K: 39:55 (Spectrum 10K 2008)
half marathon: 1:26 (Hobble Creek 2008)
marathon: 3:07 (St. George 2007) Short-Term Running Goals: Get back to a BQ marathon time (currently 3:40). Long-Term Running Goals: Have fun running, keep fit, and fight middle age spread. Run consistently and injury free. Maintain a healthy balance between running and other life priorities. Encourage my ever-aging running buddies to keep running so we can continue to share runs on the trail instead of rocking chairs. Personal: Blessed to be married to Karen for 30 years. We have six children (4 daughters/2 sons) ages 16 to 30, and one wonderful granddaughter. Favorite Blogs: |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 45.85 | 3.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 9.00 | 60.85 |
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| Saucony Guide TR 2 Miles: 11.00 | Mizuno Wave Rider 14 Miles: 22.60 | Mizuno Wave Rider 15 Miles: 21.25 |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 2.40 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 | 5.40 |
| I stretched my right hip well this morning and it didn't bother me too much on the water tank hills run. I wasn't fast, but I got it done. 19:06 up the hills. |
| Saucony Guide TR 2 Miles: 5.40 |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 3.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| Ran the Cascade route with Wayne. 6 miles @ 9:11/mi. Out at 9:40/mi, back at about 8:45/mi. I'm slow and my old body aches, but I'm just glad to be able to be running. |
| Mizuno Wave Rider 14 Miles: 6.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| I drove up to the MIA Shalom girls camp to do gate guard duty on Friday night and help pack up and pull the trailer home on Saturday morning so I didn't run on Saturday. While on guard duty at the gate, about 2:20am a car stopped at the beginning of the road up to the camp. I watched it for a while. When I finally got out I think they caught a glimpse of my 52 year old 5'7" overweight body and were scared off. Either that or they saw the light come on in my vehicle and realized someone was watching them. Whatever the reason, I was glad to see them leave. The next morning someone said they saw a couple of beer cans down there as they were driving in. When we were leaving Saturday morning they said there were runners doing a race in the Fairview direction and recommended we drive home via Scofield. My daughter Emily and I decided to go the Scofield direction and really enjoyed the drive home, including stopping to buy buffalo jerky and watching up close as a firefighting helicopter lowered to fill its bucket with water just off the side of the highway. Some who drove the other direction past the runners said that at one point there was a flock of about 300 sheep crossing the road. They said it was funny watching the runners trying to make their way through the closely packed sheep, who were also leaving droppings all over the road as they crossed. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 2.90 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.90 |
| 3x1 mile repeats, roughly 7:50, 8:05, 7:50. Between the first and second miles I mistepped on the edge of the track and tweaked the inside of my left ankle, the same area I injured earlier in the year when I stepped on a walnut during a dark early morning run. I ran it off, so to speak, but it was sore when I got home. I have a bag of frozen corn on it now. I'm planning on it being okay to run on by tomorrow. It seems it's rare for a runner to run pain free. I don't know if I'll ever experience that again. I haven't given up. I do believe in miracles. |
| Mizuno Wave Rider 14 Miles: 5.90 |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| My left ankle was pretty tender this morning so I skipped running. I was at work late last night so I didn't mind sleeping in. I'm feeling some new high hamstring "butt" pain, too, after Monday's run. All these aches and pains remind me that endurance running refers more to the training than to the races. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 2.60 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 | 5.60 |
| Water tank hills with Larry and Jolene. Met Kevin on the way home. Up the hills in 19:14 today. Not bad, not great. With all the aches and pains I've been having, it's good when I feel best when I'm running. None of the pains really affected today's run much, except to warn me to not push it too hard. |
| Saucony Guide TR 2 Miles: 5.60 |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| Met up with Larry, Wayne, and Kevin and headed to Cascade. Larry's Australian shepherd Ozzie lagged behind us as we crossed 1600 N shortly into the run and was hit by car. This was the second time I've seen him hit on a run. The first time he walked away from hit. Amazingly, he also walked away from this one, even though he was hit solidly and was knocked clear into the gutter. Kevin went for his vehicle to haul Ozzie home and Ozzie actually jumped into the back of his SUV. I'm sure he'll be sore, but he seemed okay. Larry drove him home and told us to go ahead with the run. Lyle was running just behind us when Ozzie was hit and joined us for the run. I went 6 miles @ 9:28/mi. Wayne and Kevin were out in front, and on the way back Lyle also pulled well ahead of me. I really struggled at the end of the run. I felt like I was finishing 16 miles instead 6 miles. Maybe I was channeling Ozzie...I sort of felt like I'd been hit by a car. Oh well, at least I got some good "keep going when you feel dead" training in this morning. |
| Mizuno Wave Rider 15 Miles: 6.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| 10 miles @ 9:43/mi. Various aches and pains are hindering a step up in my training, but I'm grateful to still be able to run. I really enjoyed being out with my running buddies. |
| Mizuno Wave Rider 15 Miles: 10.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 5.70 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.70 |
| I went to the track with Kent and Larry but I didn't do any speed work, I just ran at an easy pace the whole time. I probably won't push the pace until the "butt pain" on my right side gets a little better. From what little research I've done it might be my piriformis. I'm planning to try some of the exercises I found online and see if they help. |
| Mizuno Wave Rider 14 Miles: 5.70 |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 | 6.00 |
| Slow 6 miles on the 2000 N hill run. Plenty of hip and butt pain this morning. I'm beginning to feel the neuroma numbness in my right foot again, too. Maybe it's time for another visit to Dr. McLane. It's either that or start shopping for a comfortable rocking chair. On a more positive note, some of the other pains I've wrestled with over the last couple of years aren't bothering me...the sacral stress fracture appears fully healed, and I think I've recovered fully from the inguinal and sports hernia surgery last December and am no longer bothered by groin pain. From all the tape on athlete's bodies in the Olympics, it appears that runners aren't the only athletes for whom pain and injury always seem to be lurking nearby. Some lyrics (slightly modified): Nobody knows the trouble I've seen.
Nobody knows my sorrow.
Nobody knows the trouble I've seen.
Glory hallelujah! Sometimes I'm up. Sometimes I'm down.
Sometimes I'm almost to the ground.
Although you see me going along so. (or slow)
I have my trials here below.
If you get there before I do,
Tell all-a my friends I'm coming to heaven. (or the finish line at the St. George marathon) | | Comments(1) |
| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| For anyone who's wondering about me, I've been doing some slow running mixed with some injury downtime, I just haven't been logging it. I'm still planning to do the Red Rock Relay in a couple of weeks and the St. George marathon. 5 miles @ 9:58/mi |
| Mizuno Wave Rider 14 Miles: 5.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 5.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.25 |
| 5.25 @ 11:08/mi |
| Mizuno Wave Rider 15 Miles: 5.25 |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 45.85 | 3.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 9.00 | 60.85 |
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| Saucony Guide TR 2 Miles: 11.00 | Mizuno Wave Rider 14 Miles: 22.60 | Mizuno Wave Rider 15 Miles: 21.25 |
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