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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:

2023 plans: 

  • Work on core strength
  • Lose 5 lbs
  • 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 36 years. We have 5 great kids and 5 great grandkids.
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Mon, Jul 14, 2008
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
9.005.000.000.0014.00

AM: Kim and I met up with Bill and Jennifer at Pateetneet to run the Payson up/down run. I had high hopes of being able to do the 5-up/5-down in the same amount of time as the rest of the gang was doing the 4-up/4-down. Wrong! They went a bit faster than I thought they would and I was over 6 minutes slower overall. Obviously I'll need to work a lot harder to have any chance of winning this little game. I was also a bit irritated that I had some headwind both on the way up AND down. What's up with that?

Uphill splits: 8:10, 8:10, 7:55, 8:09, 8:38

Down: 6:45, 7:09, 7:21, 7:15, 7:11

Ave pace 7:40.

PM: Ran 4 miles easy with Paul out Eagleview direction. Also was it just me or was the blog down all morning?

Ave pace 8:36.

Comments
From JimF on Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 14:19:12

Nice run! It has to be a great benefit and strength builder to be able to run these long uphill routes. Living in flat land USA, hills are a definite weakness for me.

From Tom on Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 15:23:54

Jim we do love our hills out this way, although we do curse them at times while we're running them!

For those of us who run the St. George marathon in October with all it's downhill, it's crucial that we do plenty of hill training beforehand. Otherwise your legs just get pounded into mush. The day after the marathon it's pretty easy to tell who did decent downhill training and who didn't.

From Shauna on Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 16:02:33

No, the blog has been fine today. Maybe your employer was watching and thought you spent too much time on the blog and disabled it. HA! Just kidding. The blog was down this morning for me too. And I would be guilty of spending WAY too much time on the blog, especially if you asked my husband.

Great run today! You're fortunate that you have so many long hills to train on up there. It's a little more challenging to find them down here in Phoenix.

From JeffC on Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 16:16:01

I had a problem with the blog this morning at work, couldn't even get the site to come up. Maybe it was my employer watching..LOL.

From JohnA on Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 20:10:18

It looks like you were not Godzilla or (Tomzilla) today. Rest up and fight another day.

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