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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: 5.00 Month: 56.00 Year: 289.00
Saucony Fastwitch #1 Lifetime Miles: 65.50
Asics Gel-Nimbus23 #3 Lifetime Miles: 718.70
Asics Gel-Nimbus23 #4 Lifetime Miles: 561.25
Asics Gel-Nimbus23 #5 Lifetime Miles: 179.75
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
20.500.000.000.0020.50

Quite the eventful long-run-that-almost-didn't-happen this morning!  Met up with smaller group than usual at 5am.  

Lots of lightning flashing and lighting up the sky.  Started out with Kim, Doug, Janae, Kellie and Meghan.  Just over a mile into the run and we find ourselves in a massive downpour with lightning flashing and thunder crashing all around us. Crazy stuff!

Started having discussions whether we should bag the long run and do it on Monday. But decided to give the run a chance for a little longer before packing it in. The heavy ran, thunder & lightning lasted for about an hour before things settled down.  

Tough to run in mega-soggy clothes and shoes but once your soaked from head to toe it can't really get any worse. And since most of us had run full marathons in similar conditions we hung in there and were later rewarded with a nice morning and even some sunshine for a while.  The worst part was the dang chaffing due to the extra wet clothing as my bloody-nipple stain on my shirt can attest.  

Finally finished things up around 8:30, still very wet but very happy to have another 20-miler in the books! 

Asics DSTrainer17 #2 Miles: 20.50
Comments
From Brent on Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 17:56:30 from 66.7.127.67

Tom,nice job, scary to keep going, this lighting think is getting too crazy, but, how do you wait it out, where? Sounds like your ready to pace Kim to a PR.

Stay Kool, B of BS Rools out

From Tom on Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 19:48:34 from 67.199.179.59

Yeah Brent - I think Kim will be ready for the PRBQ, glad I'll be able to come along for the ride.

One nice thing about us long-time runners and bad weather... we've run in just about every kind of crazy weather over the years, know how to gut it out. And know that these kind of runs are the ones you remember for years to come and make for great stories/legends to tell the grandkids!

BTW great job surviving the 18-miler with 9-miles of jogger/stroller work. You probably earned an extra 4-5 miles.

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