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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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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 104.20 Year: 399.20
Saucony Fastwitch #1 Lifetime Miles: 65.50
Asics Gel-Nimbus23 #3 Lifetime Miles: 718.70
Asics Gel-Nimbus23 #4 Lifetime Miles: 622.45
Asics Gel-Nimbus23 #5 Lifetime Miles: 228.75
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Speed day: 4 or 5 x 1 mile repeats, goal pace sub-6:45. Always hard to wake up early and warm up to the idea of running fast. But too darn hot this time of year to do tempo runs after sunrise. Kim and I drove down to the bottoms and warmed up 2 miles into the canyon winds so that we could have a nice tailwind and some downhill to start out the repeats.

Ended up going a little better than I was expecting and I was able to resist the urge to quit after 4 and add 1 more. But certainly wasn't easy. Did 3-4 minutes of jog/walk in between repeats.

Split info (first 2 or 3 miles had nice tailwind and a bit of downhill, after that it was mostly flat with not much wind): 6:31, 6:28, 6:26, 6:34, 6:28. 

Asics DSTrainer18 #1 Miles: 9.00
Comments
From TBean on Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 12:13:25 from 166.137.209.26

Nice mile times, makes me think your yasso 800 might be coming down.

From Tom on Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 12:53:33 from 160.7.247.191

Thanks Terry. Although I realized I had mistakenly said I had a headwind instead of a nice tailwind the first few miles. So I did cheat a bit on this workout and I'd probably be around 10 seconds slower on the first 2 or 3 miles without the tailwind and downhill. But since the Yasso workout last week was pretty easy I do think I could maybe bring them down to 3:10-ish instead of 3:20. Guess we'll see in a September when I do the Yasso workout again.

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