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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
8.700.000.000.003.0011.70
Mizuno Wave Rider 14 Miles: 5.70
Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
5.700.000.000.000.005.70

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 MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
3.000.000.000.003.006.00

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)

 

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Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
8.700.000.000.003.0011.70
Mizuno Wave Rider 14 Miles: 5.70
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