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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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Sat, Jun 23, 2012
Race: American Fork Half Marathon (pacer) (13.1 Miles) 01:59:41
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
14.000.000.000.0014.00

Kim and I were pacers at the AF 1/2 marathon today. I did 2 hours and Kim did 2:10. Had a lot of fun running the relaxed pace and hopefully helping a few runners achieve their sub 2 hour goal. Fun to hear a lot of runners say "dang!" whenever I would pass them but even funner to have a few come up afterward and thank me for helping them out.

My garmin was giving me fits down the canyon and even turned off a couple of times so I was a little worried I was off pace but actually ended up coming in around 1:59:40 just where I wanted to be. 

Thanks to Walter B for giving us the chance to do the pacing gig every so often and also big congrats to Walt for defending his title and again winning the race. 

Asics DSTrainer #4 Miles: 14.00
Comments
From jtshad on Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 06:10:54 from 69.20.183.178

Great job pacing and being spot on!

From Tom on Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 18:43:55 from 67.199.179.59

Thanks Jeff!

From Paul Thomas on Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 07:52:06 from 76.23.52.106

I should keep up better with my friends. I ran over to AF Saturday, but I didn't know you and Kim were running (pacing). Maybe that's good. I was about halfway home by the time you both finished. If I would have waited around, I might not have made it home. Leaving as early as I did it was still near 80 degrees when I finished my long run.

It sounds like you and Kim are both running well, and enjoying it together. Maybe it's not manly to admit this, but I enjoy a good love story. I was going to say "with a happy ending", but it isn't going to end. (See Pres. Uchtdorf's message "Always in the Middle" in July's Ensign - http://www.lds.org/ensign/2012/07/always-in-the-middle?lang=eng)

From Tom on Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 09:08:28 from 137.65.56.2

Paul - always good to hear from you. Yeah I don't spend much time on FRB either besides still logging the miles. Hey the race pacing is a blast you should try it sometime. This pace group is managed by Walter Brown (long time FRBer) and is open to anyone who would like to pace. Walter has a group on facebook and he just asks for pacing volunteers for whatever races are coming up that he is in charge of and then he picks among the volunteers for the various paces (usually in the 1:30-2:30 range for 1/2 marathons and double that for marathons).

If you think you'd be interested in pacing sometime I can add you to the FB group then you can be up to date on what's going on within the group and upcoming races to pace.

From TBean on Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 14:28:44 from 63.241.173.64

Great pacing Tom! How about adding me to walters FB pacing group.

From Tom on Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 14:40:17 from 137.65.56.2

You bet Terry I actually thought you were already in the group since I've seen you're name mentioned before as a candidate for some of the more speedy paces.

From Tom on Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 15:38:13 from 137.65.56.2

Terry I went to add you but it said you were already a member of the group. So you should already be seeing all the posts made to the American Flyers Race Pacers group on facebook.

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