| 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 | | 21.00 | 3.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 21.00 | 45.50 |
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| Brooks Axiom Yellow Miles: 6.00 | Saucony Guide 2 Miles: 18.00 | Saucony Guide TR Miles: 21.50 |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 3.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
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If anyone checked my blog this week they might be wondering if I've been running. I have, I just haven't been blogging. It's Thursday night and I'm just logging Monday's run. Monday Kent and I ended up going to the track alone. I normally do 1 mile repeats while Kent and Larry do 1/2 mile repeats. I guess I was still recovering a bit from the 1/2 marathon on Saturday because I didn't feel physically or mentally up to mile repeats. I decided to run the 1/2 mile repeats with Kent, mostly so I could rest more in between. If I recall correctly, my times were something like 3:20, 3:23, 3:21, 3:17, 3:20 and 3:02. You can tell by the last split that I probably wasn't going all out the first five. Still, I feel like I pushed pretty hard for as tired as I was.
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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 | | 4.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 | 7.50 |
| Larry and I ended up running alone this morning. I got in 1.5 miles before meeting up with him and we ran the 2000 N route, slightly modified. His dog Ozzie seemed to fall behind more than normal and we kept stopping for him. Now that school is back in I'm trying to get home by 6:45am for our morning scriptures and prayer. At 6:40am I realized I was still 1.5 miles from home, and Ozzie was nowhere to be seen again. Larry sent me home and went back for his dog. No...I didn't run the last 1.5 miles in 5 minutes. I was late and only made it in time for prayer.
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| Saucony Guide 2 Miles: 7.50 |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 3.00 | 0.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 | 6.50 |
| Water tank hills with Larry and Wayne, and eventually Kevin. I didn't feel much like running this morning. When I told Larry this he asked who I was and what I had done with Paul. When we reached the bottom of the hills and began our ascent I told them I was going to push hard to purge the "not wanting to run" business. I started up strong and never let up...and actually felt pretty strong all the way up...finishing the ascent in 15:29, a 25 second PR for this year. Wayne and I add some distance at the top then began the easy descent with Larry. Around the bottom of hill 5 we say Kevin and his dog headed up. I encouraged him to finish to the top and said he could catch us. I felt bad that we weren't going to see much of him so Wayne and I doubled back before descending hill 1 until we met up with Kevin, at the bottom of hill 2. He was flying and pulled away from us pretty quickly. He slowed when he caught Larry and we all ran together until the last 1/2 mile. We traditionally push the last downhill 1/2 mile pretty fast. Again, I wasn't really feeling like it but went for it anyway. Once I got moving I got in a groove and ended up running 5:53 pace for that 1/2 mile, another season PR. It wasn't fast enough to not make me late getting home again. Doubling back (needlessly as it turned out) for Kevin was a mistake.
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| Saucony Guide TR Miles: 6.50 |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 6.60 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.60 |
| My good running buddies Larry, Wayne and Kevin decided among themselves to start leaving at 5:40am instead of 5:45am to give me a better chance of getting home on time. What great guys. The only problem was that only Wayne showed up today. We did meet up with Kevin later, but he had left far more than only 5 minutes later. This was a little more up tempo easy run. I got in a little over 1/2 a mile before meeting Wayne and ended up with 6.6 miles. Leaving earlier and running faster got us back by 6:35am, with 10 minutes to spare, which I spent walking and talking with Wayne and Kevin and still barely made it in on time. We decided on an early 20 mile run up Provo Canyon, but later Larry called me at work to say that Wayne had something come up and wouldn't be joining us Saturday, and also that Mark Nelson had called and was planning to run to the top of Timp on Saturday. We have been saying how much we enjoyed it a couple of years ago when we did it and that we ought to do it again this year. This weekend is probably our last good opportunity. Larry was going to talk with Kevin and Kent. I guess I'll find out tomorrow morning if we're doing Timp or not.
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| Saucony Guide 2 Miles: 6.60 |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 3.90 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.90 |
| Larry and I went out for 4-ish mile at an easy pace. |
| Saucony Guide 2 Miles: 3.90 |
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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 | 15.00 | 15.00 |
| Today I ran to the shack on the summit of Mt. Timpanogos at 11,749 ft. The weather, companionship, and scenery were awesome. The wildflowers and other mountain flora were beautiful. I saw mountain goats, raccoons, and squirrels. I even got to witness a fairly vicious but brief dog fight dangerously near the edge on the saddle, between Larry's dog Ozzie and another dog.
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| Saucony Guide TR Miles: 15.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 21.00 | 3.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 21.00 | 45.50 |
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| Brooks Axiom Yellow Miles: 6.00 | Saucony Guide 2 Miles: 18.00 | Saucony Guide TR Miles: 21.50 |
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I rode up with Larry and Jolene Marshall and Kris Chandler. I ended up running with Collin Gibbons and Mark and Michael Nelson. We met up again with the others at the saddle on our way down. We were also surprised to see Lyle Brereton and Deniece Tracy at the shack at the top.
We left at about 4:45am, got to the Timpooneke trailhead about 5:15am (5:30am after parking on Timpooneke road and walking back to the trailhead because the parking lot was already full), and started up at about 5:45am. There were a lot of people on the trail today, but getting around them was not bad. Most hikers are very considerate. Many of them praised us for our efforts, we even drew applause from one young woman; one man said something to the effect that there are good places to run, this wasn't one of them, and we wasn't going to carry us out if we got hurt. I didn't say much back to him for fear of falling and getting hurt right in front of him.
We made it to the saddle in just over 2 hours, and to the summit in 2:35. Our descent took us 1:57, for a round trip of 4:32. This includes two fairly extended stops at the saddle, one on the way up to enjoy the view and make a few phone calls, and the other on the way back down to talk with the rest of our group and take some more pictures. It does not include the time we spent on the summit refueling, making phone calls, and taking pictures.
This was my 3rd trip up Timp, and 2nd time running it. Before the run I asked myself a few times if I was crazy. I remembered that last time I survived it and was really glad I had done it. I trusted my memory so I tried it again this time. Once again I have no regrets. It wasn't easy. My legs really burned as we neared the summit, and breathing is not easy at nearly 12,000 ft. It was dangerous. I had a few near ankle turns and a couple of slips on loose rock, but I only ended up with a small scratch on my leg (along with a lot of dirt). I wish everyone could experience what I did today. What a great experience!