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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.

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Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	0.00
Altra Instinct 1.5 Lifetime Miles:						83.50
Altra Lone Peak 1.5 Lifetime Miles:						21.80
Saucony Guide 7 Blue 2 Lifetime Miles:						376.95
Saucony Fastwitch 6 Lifetime Miles:						200.05
Saucony Guide 7 Black 1 Lifetime Miles:						271.15

Mon, Oct 29, 2007

Easy Miles	Threshold Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Track speed mileage	Hill mileage	Total
0.00	0.00	11.00	0.00	0.00	11.00

I ran the six mile serpentine route near my home this morning at an easy/moderate marathon pace effort in 47:55 (7:59/mi), with 8x100 striders mixed in miles 3 and 4.My splits were:

8:06
7:46
7:39
8:24
8:13
7:42

Mile 5 has a pretty good hill in it, but I'm not sure what happened to the pace during mile 4, which is flat. I think I just lost focus after pushing the striders pretty hard.

(Axiom 22.5 miles)

At noon I ran Eagles view with Nathan, Darin, David, and Merrill. I'd never met David or Merrill before, but Darin apparently knew them and invited them along. They are pretty decent runners because we had planned to take it easy but I had our finish time for the 5 miles as 39:04 (7:53/mi), and we were all pretty close together. That's pretty good for this big hill run. I feel good whenever we go under 40:00.

Of course, it's not quite Tom's 34:02 (6:55/mi) solo run on this course last Monday. I hope everyone's back next Monday, including Tom. I don't think any of us at work have seen Tom go all out since his recent training breakthroughs. I'm sure Darin could give him a run for his money, and I'd like to see Nathan take a shot at keeping up as well. You may notice my lack of personal trash talking, that's because Tom's blog numbers (miles and paces) really have me quite intimidated.

Comments

From MichelleL on Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 17:58:26

Trash talk is the first step toward your own personal breakthrough! You have to believe it to do it. (family friendly trash talk, only of course).

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