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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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Fri, May 23, 2008
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.000.000.000.006.00

Nice relaxing morning run around the river bottoms with Kim. No rain, no wind, a little nippy (high 30's?) but just fine after the first mile or so. Ave pace 9:59.

This is all I'll be running today since it's a recovery/rest week for me and we have the 5K tomorrow. Hope I feel good for the race. I've decided that although I will still wear the garmin for data collection I'm going to ignore it for the race and run entirely by feel (or perhaps run entirely by Terry) and see what happens. Should be fun. I realized a few days ago that this will be the first "official" 5K I've run in about 6 months. Looking forward to seeing family and friends down in Ephraim and Manti. Also happy birthday to Jansen (14 yrs) tomorrow!

Comments
From Ian on Fri, May 23, 2008 at 10:36:07

I wish you and Kim a great time, sounds like it will be fun. I've been happier without my garmin on the last few races just running by feel.

From Kerry on Fri, May 23, 2008 at 11:56:15

Good luck to you and Kim and Terry! It should be great running weather (although maybe not so great the rest of the time). I kind of take the same approach with my watch -- using it to analyze the race after the fact. Watching my splits often causes me to slow down because I think I'm going faster than I should. Keeping up with Terry would be good.

From Clay on Fri, May 23, 2008 at 23:55:33

Hey Tom good luck tomorrow with the 5k, I hope you and Kim rip it up!

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