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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
19.000.000.000.000.0019.00
Saucony Guide 6 Miles: 7.00Altra Instinct 1.5 Miles: 3.00Saucony Guide TR 2 Miles: 9.00
Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
3.000.000.000.000.003.00

3 miles easy - neighborhood 5K route

My Garmin worked great for the marathon. Now it won't power on off the charger. It's served me well for thousands of miles. I'm working on a solution. Meanwhile I'm going to run without a watch for a while.

My goals for winter running are:

  • Run regularly.
  • Maintain current fitness.
  • Improve fitness safely if I can.
  • Adjust to Altra zero drop shoes as my body allows.
  • Run for the joy of running.

I haven't figured out a schedule yet. Early mornings have less traffic and fewer schedule conflicts, but it's dark and cold and slipping/tripping hazards are harder to see. When work permits I can run later in the morning. I may also experiment with running at noon, or going into work earier and running after work before dinner.

I've been doing some core exercises most of this year, sometimes more regularly than others. I've been focusing on strengthening my hips that have troubled me, but have included push ups and crunches as well. For the past couple of weeks I've been trying a 5-Minute High Intensity Circuit Training for Runners I saw on active.com. It includes some of what I've been doing, but adds some things I was missing. We'll see how it goes. I've modified it a little to continue to focus on my hips.

 

Saucony Guide 6 Miles: 3.00
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Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
3.000.000.000.000.003.00

3 miles easy - neighborhood 5K route - Altras

Altra Instinct 1.5 Miles: 3.00
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Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

4 miles easy - old Lindon loop

Saucony Guide 6 Miles: 4.00
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Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
9.000.000.000.000.009.00

Larry, Jolene and I hiked mostly, but ran some, the course for the Cascadia Trail Series TRIAL @ TRAIL 51 15k. It was held last week so the course markings were mostly still there. It was a beautiful morning.

We didn't think about the fact that the deer hunt was still open. We saw a number of hunters in hunter orange. At one point we stopped and saw deer in a clearing right in the middle of a triangle of hunters. We never heard a shot, so either the hunters didn't see the deer or there were no bucks in group. We weren't wearing orange, but my shirt was flouresent yellow so we felt safe enough. The only shooting we heard was at the shooting range on the other side of Provo canyon.

We hiked/ran for over 3 hours. My Garmin is being repaired so I'm just going guess we went about 9 miles (15K-ish).

Saucony Guide TR 2 Miles: 9.00
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Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
19.000.000.000.000.0019.00
Saucony Guide 6 Miles: 7.00Altra Instinct 1.5 Miles: 3.00Saucony Guide TR 2 Miles: 9.00
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