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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
Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
4.600.000.000.000.004.60

I decided to test the ankle this morning. The odd thing was that while walking down the stairs I noticed that my right ankle (I rolled the left one) was more sore than the left.

Larry and Wayne weren't at the corner so I walked towards Larry's house. I noticed Wayne's truck in front of Larry's house and walked up. We waited a bit, but Larry's house looked dark so we headed out and wandered the streets for about 4.6 miles in a light sprinkle/rain. My ankles felt pretty good.

Saucony Guide Blue Miles: 4.60
Comments
From Kerry on Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 13:49:52

Sounds like a good time to let those ankles heal. I'm looking forward to getting together for noon runs. That would be so cool if Wayne, Larry and Kevin could make it too. I think I could talk one of my co-workers into it as well as he said he wants to run a marathon this year. Heck, if we can get enough people interested, we can petition the site management to put in some showers for us (perhaps that plea would be more persuasive if a dozen or so of us stopped by their office after a hard run, dripping sweat over everything and generally stinking up the place :)

From Tom on Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 16:32:27

Paul glad to hear the ankles felt pretty good.

Hey I hope things go well with the new job, we'll certainly miss you around here but I'm sure that Novell's loss will be the Church's gain.

Take care of those ankles and I'll see you at the races and maybe hopefully on a few Saturday morning runs now and again. Hey are you planning on running Painters?

From Paul on Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 10:58:32

Kerry - I'm looking forward to figuring out noon runs. It will be great if we can get a good group going out regularly. My first priority will be to figure out what the heck I'm doing at my new job and getting to know my new team.

Tom - I'll miss the Novell noon runs. I suspect come spring you and Nathan will be pushing each other to new heights. Yes, I'm planning on running Painters.

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