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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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Hardly able to walk since the marathon and not much better today than yesterday. Most likely no running is going to happen this week. I did force myself to get out and walk around a bit and it seemed to help. Went out in the morning, around noon and in the evening. Probably covered 2 miles or so total.

Also did the ice bath treatment which I haven't done for a very long time as well as icing a couple more times throughout the day. I think it helped quite a bit and was not as traumatic as I seem to remember :)

So my current plan is to just stick with walking and some light XT until all the thrashed leg pains are gone, then I'll think about running. 

It's quite likely for SGM I won't decide how to run it until the day of the race or a day or 2 before.

Looking back at the race now and how I was at 1:25 at the halfway point, it sure would have been nice to be able to run a doable sub 1:35 last half and get the sub-3. But for now I'll be content with the new PR and getting the sub 3:10 monkey off my back.

Comments
From TBean on Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 14:09:57 from 63.241.173.64

Now that you've had a few days to analyze. Do you think you would have got an overall better time by slowing down a couple of minutes the first half?

Maybe you like to push hard as long as you can and then hang on for dear life. You did get a PR by doing that.

From Tom on Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 16:36:44 from 137.65.57.33

Terry I've thought about that quite a bit and I just don't know. One thing about this race though - when I've crashed & burned at SGM and slowed down similar to what I did on this race it seems like I end up getting passed by a zillion runners, but at this race I only got passed by a few. Seemed like everyone was dying no matter how they ran it so makes me wonder if for this race you have to really push the downhill easier parts (i.e. the first 17-18 miles) to get your best time.

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