| 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 | | 40.50 | 0.00 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 | 45.50 |
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| Saucony Trigon 5 Miles: 16.00 | Saucony Guide Blue Miles: 23.50 | Brooks Axiom Yellow Miles: 6.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 1.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 | 6.00 |
| I ran the water tank hills solo at noon today. I pushed with a pretty steady effort the whole run. The water tank hills themselves start a little over a mile into the run and climb about 600 feet in about 1.5 miles. My rules of thumb for a good effort run are 1) under 30 min from home to the top of the hills, and 2) around 17 minutes up the hills (PR is 15:05). Today's times were around 1) 28:30 and 2) 17:20. I ran the last gradual downhill mile in 7:26. For this time of the year I feel good about the effort and results. My left Achilles is feeling pretty good, but it's still warning me not to overdo it. Sometimes I find myself longing to be able to push as hard as I want to, with my willpower being my only limitation instead of this old "injury waiting to happen" body. But most of the time I'm just grateful to be able to be running as well as I am, or even running at all. What a great blessing running has been and continues to be in my life.
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| Saucony Trigon 5 Miles: 6.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 7.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
| As Larry, Wayne and I were about to start our run Lyle came running by. We decided to join him on his loop of the neighborhood 5K course. As Larry described it, Lyle was running like a freight train. We had to push to keep up with him as we were warming up. After one loop Lyle split off and we continued for a second loop. Wayne and I ran around the block while Larry made a pit stop at his house, so we ended up with 7 miles instead of 6.2. Overall average pace was only about 9:30/mi.
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| Saucony Guide Blue Miles: 7.00 |
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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 |
| Time to catch up the blog. This was an evening run, 6 miles, 8:25/mi average.
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| Brooks Axiom Yellow 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 |
| I took most of the day off work. This was a later morning solo run up to Provo Canyon and back. I missed running Thursday so I put in 10 miles today (8:42/mi average pace). |
| Saucony Trigon 5 Miles: 10.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 16.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 16.50 |
| Wayne and I planned a 17.5 mile run for today...from home to Vivian Park and back. Larry and Kevin started with us but ran shorter. We had a couple of surprises. First, it turns out it's 18 miles, not 17.5. The bigger surprise was that there was no water (fountain still capped) at Nunns Park or Vivian Park, just at Timpanogos Park. We took our gels anyway (before we discovered there was no water). It was sure nice to finally get a drink back at Timpanogos park. I felt tired this whole run. I think it was a combination of three factors: 1) a 10 mile run on Friday, 2) poor nutrition on Friday, 3) church cleaning assignment before run on Saturday...pushed heavy vacuum around for 45 minutes...worked up a pretty good sweat and burned considerable energy. The end result was that I slowly ran out of gas until I was completely empty. I felt it coming during most of the run but tried to tough it out. I sent Wayne ahead with 3 miles to go and asked him to drive back and pick me up. I struggled and made it to 16.5 miles, but that was it. I was feeling lightheaded and my legs felt like lead. I was sure glad to see Wayne's Jeep. When I got home I was chilled and couldn't seem to get warm. I ate a peanut butter and honey sandwich, showered, got dressed, then got into bed and slept for a couple of hours. I made myself some French toast when I got up and recovered pretty quickly after that.
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| Saucony Guide Blue Miles: 16.50 |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 40.50 | 0.00 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 | 45.50 |
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| Saucony Trigon 5 Miles: 16.00 | Saucony Guide Blue Miles: 23.50 | Brooks Axiom Yellow Miles: 6.00 |
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