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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: 20.00 Month: 94.20 Year: 389.20
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: 218.75
Sat, Aug 13, 2011
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
22.250.000.000.0022.25

Drove over to Riverwoods then ran up the river trail up to Trefoil and back down.  Ran into the PR 1/2 marathoner's coming down the canyon about a mile or 2 into their race.  Sasha was leading at the time and looks like he held on for 1st place.  Also saw the great one - Terry Bean - who was loafing a little bit at the time and FRBer Jeff L right behind him.

On the way down I caught up to the back of the race pack around Bridal Veil and had fun passing a zillion people the rest of way.  It was a nice distraction and helped make the last 5 miles of the 22 miler go by quickly.

Just kept the pace nice and easy the whole time in hopes that I'll have some life in the legs next week for Hobble Creek.

Ave pace 8:32

Asics DSTrainer #2 Miles: 22.25
Comments
From Clay on Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 14:00:03 from 71.195.211.129

Nice run Tom! You are really knocking the miles out!

From Brent on Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 18:53:16 from 66.7.127.67

Tom, nice run, fun passing runners, what feeling, nice long run, how are your longer tempo runs going?

Stay Kool, B of BS Rools out

From Tom on Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 19:03:11 from 67.199.180.90

Thanks guys. Brent I've been mainly using races for my long tempo runs since they seem to go better that way! :) I feel pretty good about my 1/2 marathon time-trial on the Hobble course last week, it will be interesting to see how the actual race compares.

I'm kind of working things so every other weekend is a long run (20-23 miles) at mostly easy pace, with the in between Saturdays being hard tempo runs but in the 15-17 mile range, mostly races. Just hope my body can hold out on this schedule so I can go into SGM feeling pretty good. Always tricky trying to figure out how best to train.

From TBean on Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 11:01:08 from 63.241.173.64

Loafing? I hope my running style looks smooth and easy enough to make me look like I'm loafing when I'm running at a 6 min. mile pace going down hill.

I was hoping you'd turn around and pace me for a mile or two when I saw you. Or at least I needed a quarter mile of you yelling at me to get my head in gear, start racing, run smooth and get the pain level up.

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