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Location:

Spanish Fork,UT,USA

Member Since:

Jan 15, 2007

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Age Division Winner

Running Accomplishments:

Lifetime PRs:

Marathon: 3:07:59 2013 Big Cottonwood Marathon 

1/2 Marathon: 1:24:30 2008 St. George Painters

10K: 38:39 2008 SLCTC

5K: 18:44 2009 Nestle Art City Days 

55-59 AD PRs:

1/2 Marathon:???

10K:???

5K:??? 

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

2024 plans: 

  • Work on core strength
  • Overcome lingering injuries
  • Have fun!

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

Consistently place in the top 5 of my age division as long as my body will allow it.

Beat Terry Bean at any distance at least one time before I depart this earth.

Take care of mind and body so I can be in it for the long haul. Don't do STUPID THINGS!

Run until I'm 99 with Kim by my side and remember that EVERY RUN IS A GREAT RUN!

Peace of mind by striving to live like this

 

Personal:

I've been married to the lovely Kimberly for 38 years. We have 5 great kids and 5 great grandkids.
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Wed, Jun 18, 2008
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.100.000.000.0010.10

AM: Easy 7 mile solo run mostly around river bottoms. Felt very lethargic today. Kind of strange since all day yesterday and last night before I went to bed I was thinking how good my legs were feeling. Maybe had something to do with the alarm waking me up instead of waking up a few minutes before the alarm as is usually the case. Did a few 10-20 sec striders to try and kick-start the system but to no avail. Oh well...go figure. Ave pace 9:02.

Noon: Ended up running just over a mile and a half before turning around and coming back to end up with 3.1 miles. I did feel better than this morning and what felt like the same effort ended up being around 8:15 pace rather than the 9 min pace this morning. But as I ended up alone on this run and it was hot I just didn't feel like going any further. I hope Dale is correct in his comments. Ave pace 8:15.

I finally broke down and scheduled an appointment with Doc Takasaki check on the lower abdomen pains and see if by chance I have a hernia. The groin stuff seems to be on the mend this week but the gut thing can still be very annoying at times. Nice thing about Dr. Takasaki is that he's a runner so he "get's it" and won't give me any stupid advice like some non-running doctors are prone to do.

Comments
From Dale on Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 14:05:02

You're probably mentally prepping yourself for WBR this weekend and telling your legs to take it easy. Hopefully that means they'll feel charged up and ready to go at the start!

From Cal on Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 15:36:25

I had my Doc check for a hernia last year based on those symptoms (I didn't have one...) But the pain/discomfort is worse for me now than it was then.

From Tom on Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 15:39:24

Ditto for me Cal, I've had this a couple of times over the past few years but this time just seems a little different. I just really hope it isn't going to screw everything up for St. George.

From Kerry on Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 15:41:25

I always seem to feel a bit lethargic with a race coming up (of course, the heat doesn't help either). It all seems to disappear when it's time to race, however. Hopefully, the doctor will have a quick cure for what ails ya!

From Terry on Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 16:14:57

Tom, as soon as you see the WBR team and your old pal Terry the Lethargic feeling will be gone. And then when you see me Start the relay in Logan and destroying the competition you'll be itchin to run.

From Tom on Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 17:07:17

Terry I hope you are correct.

As far as destroying the competition you might have your work cut out for you Terry. I was talking to Steven King earlier today (speed demon who works at Novell and is on the Novell corporate speedster team) and it turns out they start the same time as we do and they have Ron Greenwood running leg #1. Ron just ran a 17ish time at the Nestle 5K a couple of weeks ago which is actually slow for him. He's been around a 2:30 SG marathon finisher in past years.

But I'm confident you will be up to the challenge and won't disappoint :)

From Sasha Pachev on Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 17:39:01

2:40:31 last year, 2:33:41 in 2006, both in St. George. His PR since 2000 is 2:29:10 in 2002. I seem to recall that he ran it in 2:26 one year, but my check on the race results does not confirm it.

From Kerry on Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 19:06:59

Who else is on Steve's team?

From Tom on Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 00:09:30

Kerry - Besides Darin Cable and Ron Greenwood I'm not sure who else.

From Paul T on Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 01:02:19

I don't who all is on their team either, but I think they've been doing some last minute recruiting. I know Kent Gassman's son Kurt was on their team last year but is now serving a mission. On Monday, Tom, Nathan and I ran with Tyler (I think) who I think they just recruited to their team recently. He ran track and cross country in high school but took a lot of years off and hasn't been running again very long. I'm not positive, but I think Bill Rieske told me at the Nestle 5K that they had also recruited his nephew. Not positive on that one.

Darin briefly tossed out the idea of "joining the dark side" to Tom and me in a recent run. I think they are facing the challenge we did when we were corporate, trying to draw replacement runners from a pretty small pool of Novell runners. There aren't a lot of sub-6:00 10K pace guys at Novell.

From JimF on Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 09:27:39

Good luck in the relay this weekend. Sounds like a great time!

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