| Location: UT,United States Member Since: Apr 05, 2010 Gender: Male Goal Type: Boston Qualifier Running Accomplishments: "PRIOR PREPRATION PREVENTS PISS POOR PERFORMANCE"
Best running times:
5K - 17:45, Nestle, 2008
10K - 43:34, Des News, 2008
1/2 Marathon - 1:32:50, Provo 1/2, 1999
Full Marathon - 3:21:26, St. George, 1999
Best Boston Marathon: 3:29:57, 2006
I RAN AND COMPLETED MY 12/12/60th BIRTHDAY CHALLENGE. 12 MARATHONS IN 12 MONTHS (FEB 5,2011 - FEB 19, 2012)
ST GEORGE MARATHON(14) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2018, 2019 (14)
THE BOSTON MARATHON(14) 2000, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019, (14)
DESERET NEWS MARATHON,(4) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2011 (4)
OGDEN MARATHON(3) 2004, 2005, 2011, 2022 (4)
PARK CITY MARATHON(6) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011
TOP OF UTAH MARATHON(4) 2004, 2005, 2007, 2011.
UTAH VALLEY MARATHON(3) 2010, 2011, 2021.
THE COWTOWN MARATHON(1) 2011
THE HOOVER DAM MARATHON (1) 2011
THE DALLAS WHITE ROCK MARATHON(1) 2011
THE SURF CITY USA MARATHON(2) 2012, 2013
THE LOST DUTCHMAN MARATHON(1) 2012
THE LAYTON MARATHON,(1) 2013
THE MT NEBO MARATHON,(1) 2014
THE ATHENS GREECE AUTHENTIC MARATHON (1), NOV 8, 2015
THE GREEN BAY MARATHON (1), JUNE 22 2016
THE CIM (1), DEC 4, 2016
THE HUNTSVILLE "FULL MONTE" MARATHON (2), 2017 & 2019
64 MARATHONS, From 1998 until 2022 W/ ZERO DNFS
1st Marathon, St. George Marathon, OCTOBER 3, 1998.
64 total Marathons, The Ogden Marathon, May 2022.
169 OVERALL RACES (5Ks, 10Ks, 1/2s, Full Marathons & Tris) SINCE JUNE 4, 1998 UNTIL TODAY. (ZERO-DNF'S)
"PAY ME NOW OR PAY ME LATER" Short-Term Running Goals: RUN A 17:00 5K
RUN A 38:00 10K
RUN A 90:00 1/2 MARY
RUN A SUB 3 HR FULL MARY (I know I will never hit this one, but I will keep on trying)
RUN THE BOSTON MARATHON, AT LEAST ONE MORE TIME IN 2022!
"THERE WILL BE DAYS THAT I DON'T KNOW IF I CAN RUN A MARATHON, BUT THERE WILL ALSO BE A LIFE TIME KNOWING THAT I HAVE!" Long-Term Running Goals:
2021 RUNNING RACE SCHEDULE: (STILL SUBJECT TO CHANGE)
1. UTAH VALLEY MARATHON, (3rd plc AD) 5 JUNE '21
2. UTAH VALLEY 5k, (1st plc AD), JUNE 2021
3. SANDY CITY 4th of JULY CLASSIC 5K, (3rd plcAD), 3 JULY '21
4. UNIVERSITY OF UTAH HOMECOMING 5K, U5K, (1st plc AD) 9/18/'21
5. SANDY CITY TURKEY TROT & VETERANS DAY 5K, (1st plc AD), 11/13/'21
6. Midnight Madness 5K, 12/31/2021, (1st plc AD)
2022 race schedule:
1. The Ogden Marathon, May 21,'22, 5th in Age Division
2. Sandy City 4th of July 5k, (29:37) (Age Div 1st plc)
3. Sandy City Balloon Fest 5k, (30:51) ( 1st plc Age Div)
GOALS.....My goal is to be an Age Division Winner and a Boston Marathon Qualifer & Participant as long as I can run this short, fat, tired old man body down the road!!! This gettin' old crap isn't for the weak of heart, mind, body or spirit!
Personal:
"IMPROVISE, ADAPT & OVERCOME"
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Brooks Pure Cadence Miles: 229.62 | BA NYC Miles: 7.50 | PC2 Miles: 214.15 | NBA9 Miles: 6.00 | PC2-2 Miles: 369.36 | BA9 Miles: 25.00 | Brooks B9 Addiction Miles: 33.00 | Altra Miles: 329.81 | Altra B Miles: 329.56 | Altra C Miles: 186.41 | Newton Distance S Miles: 12.20 | Altra Torin Miles: 61.20 | AI 2.0 Miles: 61.20 | Adidas RC Miles: 8.00 |
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| | am 8 mile easy run in the Sandy hills.......what a way to start out 2014. 110 days till Boston....Game on!!!!!
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Brooks Pure Cadence Miles: 8.00 |
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| | 6 mi tempo run this am.........20 degrees, smog & fog, gray skies......at least there wasn't any new snow to clog up the two lane black top
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Brooks Pure Cadence Miles: 6.00 |
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| | am, 6 mi, 22 degrees, gray to partly cloudy skies, fairly clear roads.
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Brooks Pure Cadence Miles: 6.00 |
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| | 3 mi easy run.......gettin' ready to go long sunday
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Brooks Pure Cadence Miles: 3.00 |
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| | 11 miles at 20 degrees, sunny clear skies and fairly clear roads except where I wanted to run. UDD - DWD - H.
105 days till Boston......what's in your wallet!
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Brooks Pure Cadence Miles: 11.00 |
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| | 6 mi @ 3:30a, 22 degrees, night time running conditions, clear roads....Ya!!!!
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Brooks Pure Cadence Miles: 6.00 |
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| | six speed miles at 3:30a.....cold, wet roads, same ol' same ol'.....102 days till Boston
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Brooks Pure Cadence Miles: 6.00 |
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| | 6 mi in the hills - 100 days till The Boston Marathon. Can't wait to get some of this!!!
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Brooks Pure Cadence Miles: 6.00 |
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| | easy 6 mi on the PRT.....Porter Rockwell Trail 41 degrees, windy, gray cloudy skies.
Down to double digits to Boston......99 days! Take one down and pass it around...
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Brooks Pure Cadence Miles: 6.00 |
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| | 12 mi distance run, 33 degrees, ice and snow covered PRT, gray cloudy sky, light cold wind....very little or no sunshine......98 days till Boston
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Brooks Pure Cadence Miles: 12.00 |
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| | 3:10 am 8.25 mi hill run - 35 degrees - clear dark skies with lots of stars in the sky - Clear roads
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Brooks Pure Cadence Miles: 8.25 |
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| | 8.3 mi run @ 3:am, cold, clear, dark and done. 95 days till Boston.....
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Brooks Pure Cadence Miles: 8.30 |
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| | 8.6 mi @ 3:am, in the hills
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Brooks Pure Cadence Miles: 8.60 |
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| | Last day and end of my running week - My goal was 50 miles this week and I acheived it!
Next weeks goal 55 miles.
92 days till the Boston!
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| | 13 mi long distance run this am on the PRT. 27 degrees, fairly clear except the smog. ..........91 days till Boston! "Got your Boston Strong On"!!!
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Brooks Pure Cadence Miles: 13.00 |
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| | 6 mi recovery run up and down Dimple Dell Road......30 degrees, sunny, and a light breeze. 90 days till Boston Strong
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Brooks Pure Cadence Miles: 66.00 |
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| | 8.7 mi up and down Dimple Dell and twice around the park.......3:00 am, 15 degrees, running by streeet lamps.........(-:
89 days till Boston.....
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Brooks Pure Cadence Miles: 8.70 |
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| | 9.77 mi up and down Dimple Dell Road, around the park 4 times plus all the hills in between. Cold, dark and fun......88 days till Boston.
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Brooks Pure Cadence Miles: 9.77 |
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| | 10 m1 @ 3:am on the Dimple Dell Road.......18 degrees, foggy, cold humid, dark and fun! 87 days till show time...
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| | 7.53 mi @ 3:am in the hills of Sandy. 19 degrees, dark, cold, with my running buddy! 86 days till the run to Bean Town....."BOSTON STRONG"
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| | 14 miles on the PRT, 11:am, 30 degrees, clear, sunny, just a little light wind. 84 days till Boston...
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| | 7 mi @ 3:25 am, 23 degrees, cold, calm, and dark. 83 days till Boston......
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Brooks Pure Cadence Miles: 7.00 |
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| | 10 mi @ 3:am, 25 degrees, cold and dark. 65% humidity. Yowzza! 82 days till Boston!
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| | 6 mi 2 3:30a, 33 degrees, cool, dark and gettin windy.....
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Brooks Pure Cadence Miles: 10.00 |
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Brooks Pure Cadence Miles: 10.00 |
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| | 6.3 mi @ 3:30 am, 16 degrees, very cold, very dark, with icy roads and a 1/2 inch layer of fresh snow on yesterdays 3 inches of snow. What a great morning run. 74 days till the show down at BOSTON. The run with your favorite "Terrorist" Marathon.
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| | 10 mi @ 3:am, 19 degrees, clear dry roads, light breeze, bright stars and no traffic.
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| | 9 mi up and down the Sandy Hills......41 degrees, gray cloudy rainy skies with snow and rain predicted.........71 days till The Boston...
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| | 17 mi on wet cold rainy and snowy windy gray ugly morning. Says it's 40 degrees out there but it feels like 30 degrees. After two running outfit changes and being soaked to the bone, I gave up at 17 miles.....thats good only because that is what I scheduled for today. not the crappy weather.
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| | 6 mi @ 3:20 AM in the rain & Snow.......70 days till Boston
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| | 10 mi @ 3:am, 28 degrees, cold, dark, clear roads and air. 69 days till Boston...
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| | 9 mi hill run @ 3:am...35 degrees, clear air, dry roads etc, etc.......68 days till Boston...
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| | 10 mi @ 3:am, rain, dark and 45 degrees......67 days till Boston |
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| | 9 mi this after noon, 50 degrees, cloudy with on and off sprinkles......
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| | an easy 6 mi recovery type run this late morning.....sure is different running in the daylight.....(-: Just getting ready for an 18 tomorrow....
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| | What a wild and crazy running day. My run started at @ 10:am with partly cloudy skies and the sun peaking thru every once or twice. It was 55 degrees and there was a dribbley bit of rain coming down. Then it continually got worse and colder. Lets see it got really windy, it rained harder, it even snowed and I got clobered by some hail. Dam that was fun.........63 days till Boston....Getter' Done!!!!!
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| | 6 recovery miles this mid morning run. 45 degrees at start with high clouds and filtered sun light. 62 days till Boston Strong....
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| | 10 mi in the hill @ 3:am...it was about 48 degrees and I had gusts of wind up to about 25 mph. 60 days till Boston......
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| | Can you believe it....I took this morning off as a rest day? Maybe I'll go out for a short evening run! 59 days till Boston and the second annual run with the Terrorists. Hope they don't show up!
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| | 10 mi @ 3:am, Up and down Dimple Dell Road, dry roads, clear air, and dark every where. 58 days till Boston.......Yea!
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| | 16 mi at 9am. 32 degrees at start - 45 at finish. 56 days till The Boston.
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| | 10 mi @ 3am.......36 degrees...really nice running
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| | 10 mi @ 3:am on Dimple Dell Road,53 days left till the Boston. |
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| | 8 mi @ 3:am, dark, 48 degrees, windy, and very light rain.....52 days till Boston
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| | 10 mi @ 10:am, @50 degrees, windy, cloudy, OK run....
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| | 6 mi @ 10:am, 42 degrees, gray, cloudy, rain at times.......uck!
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| | 21 mi @ 10:am. Start temp 42, finish temp 58 with partly cloudy skies and a whole bunch of sunshine. I can say it wasn't my best long run but it was interesting. I'm trying out a new hydration system and checking to see if it's compatable with my short, fat, slow, old man style of running. The jury is still out, I'll update my findings in the near future...
49 days till my 11th Boston Marathon and my 50th Marathon overall ! And my congrats to "Allie" for running a great marathon at the Woodlands yesterday!
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| | mid morning 10 miler in the hills, 41 degrees, overcast and very light rain every once in awhile.
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| | 7 mile easy run, @50 degrees, mostly sunny, no wind or rain. 43 days left till Boston. That leaves 3 weeks of hard training and 3 weeks of taper training.......Yowzza !!!
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| | 21 mi during my mid morning long run on my hardest course! 2 times around from home base up Dimple Dell over the top and down Wasatch Blvd back to the home base. I really feel good about my training getting to this point in my training cycle headed to The 118th running of The Boston!!!! 42 days till showtime! With 6 full weeks of training left,my training focus will now shift from endurance to speed training...
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| | 10 mi doing hill repeats and speed training @ 3:am. 30 degrees in the dark of the cold morning, light winds.
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| | 11 mi @ 1:pm today.....53 degrees in the sunshine w/just a little wind.
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| | 7 mi easy run w/o a garmin @ 8am, 39 degrees, no wind, lotsa blue sky and puffy clouds...35 days and a wake up and it's show time in Boston!!!!!!! All you Boston Bound Runners remember it's Patroit's Day, so remember to show your patroitism by displaying your "USA" flag!
Wow, it's a tough bunch of runners on this blog. I turn in my longest mileage week in many many years and I'm just bearly able to stay on the front page of the Mileage Board......(-: . Just fell off the front page! Oh well, on to next week...
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| | 21 long distance slow miles @ 10:30am. 45 degrees at start, 60 at the end. Much sunshine and just a little wind. Took the same double loop up Dimple Dell and down Wasatch as last Sunday...what a butt kickin' course.....34 days and a wake up till Boston.
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Brooks B9 Addiction Miles: 8.00 |
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Brooks B9 Addiction Miles: 9.00 |
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Brooks B9 Addiction Miles: 8.00 |
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Brooks B9 Addiction Miles: 8.00 |
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| | 15.5 miles at Long Distance speed....up and down Dimple Dell Road. 27 days and a wake up and it's Boston! My last "really" long distance run is next sunday where I have a 22 miler scheduled. and then it's all down hill into taper time....good old drive you crazy taper time.........I can hardly wait to get all rested up for the big day in Bean Town!!!! Hey if you haven't looked on the Boston site lately, they have posted your bib numbers....go check'em out.
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| | 22 mi @ the approximate time I will start and run the Boston Marathon in just 20 days and a wake up. I surly hope the weather in Boston isn't like it was here in Sandy. Too much heavy wind, rain, snow, hail...for the entire duration of my last mega long run before Boston....
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| | 8 mi @ 3:10 am..48 degrees, light rain, light wind, easy recovery run.
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| | 10 mi in the hills, 38 degrees with a light snow storm going on around me......oh what fun it is!
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| | 10 mi in the sandy hills. 17 days left till Boston......
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| | two weeks, one day, and a wake-up and it's show time in Boston!
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| | what a gorgeous day for a run. 45 degrees, windy, total cloud cover. 16 miles in a garbage bag!!!! What more could a body desire except it's all in the bank! 14 days and a wake-up and it's time to do the Boston!
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| | 8 mi @ 3:20 am....... easy run in the hills
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| | 8 mi @ 3:20 am in the sandy hills. 48 degrees, clear, cool and dark. Boston is now just 10 days and a wake-up away!
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| | Did all you Boston Bound runners take a gander at todays prediction for the weather on April 21st at Boston.......Accu Weather! Sure glad we've got 9 more days till the show down at Bean Town!
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| | OK that's the last med-dist run. 12 miles in the Sandy hills. Even though it has been raining, snowing and hailing all day I managed to pick out a sucker hole in the weather and made the run without getting soaked to the bone! Yea! that't the first time in several weeks.
8 days till Boston...
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| | Today was suppose to be a rest day but I let my taper madness drive me out to the road for a nice easy recovery run.....oh well it felt good. 6 days and a wake-up and it's all done but the crying!!!!
here is the latest prediction for Marathon Monday in Bean town!
MonApr 21
58°
43°
Mostly Cloudy
- CHANCE OF RAIN:
- 20%
- WIND:
- W at 9 mph
Well here
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| | I went to a Boston Marathon Bombing memorial run (5K) at the local Wasatch Running Store. It was a nice and there was a pretty good turn out.
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| | Three easy shake down miles today. I'm ready to do the Boston, I sure hope Boston's ready for me and all my good running friends.
Here's todays prediction for the weather on Marathon Monday the 21st: My guess is that it will change at least 5 more times before we all toe the mark and head for Boston.
MonApr 21
61°
46°
Partly Cloudy
- CHANCE OF RAIN:
- 10%
- WIND:
- SSW at 13 mph
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| | just chillin' today. Accu-weather 4/21/2014 Sun Apr 20 Intervals of clouds and sun 55°Lo 39° more Mon Apr 21 Partial sunshine 60°Lo 45°
The weather Channel for 4/21/2014
MonApr 21
64°
44°
Partly Cloudy
- CHANCE OF RAIN:
- 10%
- WIND:
- SSW at 13 mph
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| | No new is good news! OK everybody, it's time to assemble in Bean Town for the 118th running of the Boston Marathon......Good Luck! Travel to Boston.. | |
| | In and around the Boston area..... |
| | Easter Services At the Old South Church,Expo,Pasta Dinner, etc... | |
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The Boston Marathon (26.2 Miles) 03:46:42, Place overall: 14385, Place in age division: 192 | | "Slicks Boston!"
What can I say other than,"Not too bad for an old guy!" This years adventure at Boston was probably the best ever and it will be hard to top.
I took the red eye out of Salt Lake City on Friday night and arrived in Boston early Saturday morning, so early that nothing was open, not even the Expo. I dropped my bags off at the B & B in the Back Bay Area and started wandering about the area. Couldn't check in to the B & B till about 2:pm.
I went over to the finish line on Boylston and watched the going ons to kill some time looking at all the preparations for the marathon on Monday, so many inspirational signs and banners, everywhere. I actually stumbled on the Minister and some of the Church Ladies at the Old South Church preparing to give out scarfs to the runners as part of the Church of Christ's Year of Remembrance and Hope, Marathon Scarf Project 2014. I guess I was lucky, the Minister gave me a blessing and a scarf. I didn't think they were going to do this until Sunday at the Old South Church when they did the "Blessing of the Atheletes" service.
After this I went over to the Expo and collected up my race bib packet and goody bag and wandered around the expo until I could get into my room. Hillbilly Runner Ronnie showed up later in the day and we returned to the Expo to pick up his race packet.
Sunday morning we attended the Easter Services at the Old South Church at 9:am along with some 2,044 regular worshipers and Marathon Runners. During the Easter Service the Minister held the "Blessing of the Athletes" where the runners were also given a beautiful hand made scarf knitted in the blue and gold colors of the BAA signifying hope and courage for the Athlete in the up coming Boston Marathon. Attending Easter Services and the Blessing of the Athletes was a real delight for me, and I will make a point of attending in future trips to the Boston.
Race day morning was exceptionally peaceful and rather non hurried and we made our way to the Boston Commons to get on the busses and depart for the Athletes Village in Hopkinton. I actually sat next to a fellow that was sleeping on the bus which in turn made my ride quite peaceful where I reflected on my own projected race plan that was just hours away. At the village I tried to be calm and continue to reflect on my race plan while takling to my friends, taking photos and waiting in the line to the "Temple of Doom".
Around 10:30 am the call came out for the 3rd wave participants to get up and move out to the main street of Hopkinton and join the other runners in their corrals before race time. I remember getting up from my resting place and taking my
I don't recall how close it was to 11:am but the 3rd wave seemed to take off as scheduled. I got in line with the rest of the 3rd wave and started moving my feet towards Boston. I kept with my plan to start the race slow and avoid bouncing around ducking and weaving to advance ahead of other runners. From previous experience I know that the wave would thin out and I could start getting in some serious running about 4 or 5 miles down the road....it did.
At the two (2) mile mark on the left side of the roadway there was the Biker Bar and all the partiers having' a ball. Wow, the smell of beer was thick in the air and it only made me want to stop and have a couple with them.
The temperature at the starting line was about 53 degrees and the wind or breeze was barely discernable. A rather nice start. I would have preferred about a 43 degree start but it wasn't my choice. Wow, the 5k mat seemed to come up rather fast and I was past it. I looked at my Garmin and I was at about 25 minutes and thought, I am right on plan.
I continued making my way along the course trying to maintain a steady pace that would result in a BQ at Boston so I can return here in 2015. I hit the half way point at 1:48:02. I had hoped to be there at the 1:38:00 mark, but this was satisfactory. I took time to reconsider my situation and found that all was well and my tire old man body wanted to play. I had a moment of mental let down about mile 14 where my brain asked me what the hell I was out here doing? I collected my thoughts and put a positive spin on and took off on down the road as I was entering the Natick and Wellesley hills. I tried to attack the hills going up, rest and maintain on the flats and kick it up on the down hill side.
I t was amazing to see all the spectators, fans and freedom loving people lined up the entire length of the marathon. The crowd support was second to none this year. Even the "Scream Tunnel" at Wellesley was probably twice as loud and long as ever before.
Then it was time to enter the hills of the "Killer Chain" in Newton. These hills are nothing compaired to the mountains that I train in, in Utah. But none the less, they are there and must be contended with. I again worked on maintaining a pace of between 8 and 8:30 minutes per mile as I attacked the hill upward, rested on the flat and picked it up on the back side. With this plan in mind, all of a sudden I was up and over "Heart Break Hill" and looking forward to some gentle down hill running into Boston.
The temprature was at about 66 degrees, little or no noticeable wind and about 5 miles to get my 11th Boston Marathon finished. I ate my last double caffeinated Power Gel, chased it with a cup of water that was offered by one of the very young Patriots' Day / marathon fans and continued to race my plan. At 35k I was at 3 hours and 6 minutes into it and I felt really good and could see that I had done my plan right and I would be able to finish this race well.
I started looking for the Citgo Sign that is prominently situated at about 1 mile from the finish line and kept my pace steady and focused. And there it was! And there were all the people that had filed out of Fenway Park after the baseball game standing on the marathon route cheering and supporting all the runners.
Now the next milestone in my race was to round the corner and turn right on Hereford St. and then get my "Victory Dance Cigar" out and make the left onto Boylston and head to the finish line that is in sight from the corner.
While making my final push to the finish line I reflected on how well the City of Boston, the people and the Boston Marathon had recovered from the tragedy only one year ago and had come together as "Boston Strong" and made a stand against Terrorism and Tyrany for Freedom, Justice and Liberty for All.
I stepped over the line at 3:46:42 and was completely satisfied with my race which also yeilded a "BQ" for 2015.
Thank you to all my friends and my new friends and all the people that have made the Boston Marathon the success that it is! May the Boston Marathon continue for all time to come!
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7 mile MPS status run......in the hills. 45 degrees, cloudy, windy, some rain.
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| | 6.5 @ 3:30am.......life is getting better!
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| | Nice Sunday morning run in the hills of Sandy......7.2 mi @ 7:30a, up and down Dimple Dell.
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| | 6 mi on Dimple Dell Road. 52 degrees, no wind
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| | 6 mi @ 3:30am......45 degrees, no rain
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| | 6 mi @ 3:30 am.....on my semi-flat run on 13th east.
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| | Rest day. As hard as it is to not run, I've just started my training cycle for the Nebo Marathon in September! Let it be written, Let it be done!
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| | 10 miles up and down Dimple Dell. speed & hill training. Start temp: 60, End:80. I may have to get up earlier on Sunday and get my run in when its cooler!
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| | 10 mi in the hills, up and down Dimple Dell Road.....
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| | four easy miles on the PRT............Happy Memorial Day to all you Vets'......
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| | 8 mi in the hills. 78 degrees at 3:20am
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| | 5mi easy run, 3:20 am, 61 degrees.
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| | 6.2 this 3:30am in the hills
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| | 12 mi long run up and down Dimple Dell Road.
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OK, I've posted my favorite Boston Finish Photo from 2007. My actual finish time that year was 3:29:something.....I wonder if I'll ever be able to do that again?
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The Nestle 5K (3.107 Miles) 00:23:52, Place overall: 149, Place in age division: 1 | |
I love doing this little 5k, this was my 14th trip to the Nestle 5K, I used to run it with my son when he still liked me! It's only a 5k but it's the most competitive and fun little 5k I've ever done, and it's such a great family atmosphere! Springville Utah does it right! I took 1st place in my Old Man Age Group with a 23:52 out of 25 runners. 149th out of 2139 runners overall, with a 7.58 minute mile average, my first mile was a 5.3 minute mile and then I started losing steam. Not too bad for an old guy even if I do say so myself, I was only 8.37 minutes behind the overall winner......Next race (kinda a race) Ragnar Wasatch Back June 27-28.
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Ragnar Wasatch Back (15.5 Miles) 02:29:00 | | Ragnar 2nd & 3rd
I spent the weekend doing the ordeal of Mental, Physical and Social interaction known as the Ragnar Wasatch Back......It was great being involved is such a wonderful team effort in torture and endurance under stress. My highlight of the RWB was running leg 34, "The Ragnar", 4 miles up a two lane blacktop road that acends 1700 ft. up to 8900 ft., at 80 degrees in full sunshine, did it in 52 minutes while booking in 18 road kills. Not too bad for an old guy. Now its back to the real world and back to training for my next races.......tyi
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| | 3 mile shake down run for the Sandy Classic 5K on Friday .......still a bit tired fron the Ragnar but ready to go give it the best I can.....
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Sandy City Classic 5K (3.107 Miles) 00:24:07, Place overall: 68, Place in age division: 1 | | Not a bad day at the Sandy Classic 5K! I got up feelin' pretty good about a great nights sleep and didn't have any parts that hurt out of the ordinary. Got down to the race early and managed to get in about 30 minutes worth of warmup which really made my morning.
I'm unclear about how many runners there were overall but it seemed to be about 300.
Knowing that I was still a bit weary from the Ragnar last weekend I decided to work in all the tricks of the trade to have a pleasant outcome. I crowded my way to the front and toe'd the starting line with all the young kids that run like the wind. I was standing next to a young toe headed boy, probably about 10 years old, that I kindly told not to pass any gray haired old guys like me because it's bad form for a youngster! This kid actually finished just after me taking 3rd place in his whipper-snapper age group, I gave him a huge high five for his great effort to beat the old man across the finish line.
Boom, Boom, Boom.....Bang, Bang, Bang, the race started and I felt like setting down. I took another deep breath and kick it into high gear..... and trying not to get passed by everybody including the little blond haired kid.
I cut the corners and tracked the shortest distance between points and tried to keep the focus on keeping my breathing under control and my feet moving forward toward the next road kill....I even drafted on a cute young chick on the south bound leg of the race that was into the wind.....When I rounded the south end of the oval course headed north I passed the young lady and started looking for the finish line and any old guy between me and the end. I passed a couple of old guys but it turned out that they were in the age group ahead of mine.
As I moved to the .5 mile mark left in the race I took a drink of water from the small bottle I had and kicked up my pace so as not to get passed by any pirates lurking in the back ground, I hate it when they do that!
So it's all said and done, I managed to run at a 7:45 Min/Mi pace with a 24:07.3 minute finish time. 68th body to get over the finish line and the 1st old guy in my 60 to 64 age group to finish.......it was fun...........
Happy Independance Day all of you Americans!!!
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| | 6 mi hill trainer & post race recovery run. Looks like summer is here. It was 82 degrees at 5:30 am ....Uck!
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| | 10 mi med-long run this am out on the PRT. I was scheduled for more miles but decided to throttled back to compensate for my last two 5k race efforts.....
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| | 8.3 mi on the Dimple Dell Hills.....didn't get out on the road till about 7am.
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| | 19 mi long run @ 4:30am, Up Dimple Dell down Wasatch and a little bit further and voil, the run is in the bank.....
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| | 4 recovery miles @ 3:30am, 78 degrees, no wind.....looks like summer is here!
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| | 6 mi tempo run @ 3:30am. Met up with my am running buddy and had a nice hot morning run. It was only 80 degrees with 31% humidity.....
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"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most do".............................................---Dale Carnegie
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| | Rest Day - I needed that!
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." -----------------Alice Walker
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Draper Days 5K (3.107 Miles) 00:24:07, Place in age division: 3 | | Not a whole lot to report. The Draper Days 5k is a rather small race with about 235 total runners in all ages. My goal was to place in my old guys age group, I did it. 3rd place with a 24:07 time. I can't believe that 15 days ago I ran the Sandy Classic 5K at the exact same time. The Draper Days 5K is a certified USATF course so it tends to draw in some of the fastest runners in the area. It was fun and it's actually a very fast course. The overall winner did it in 15:15......And today I got to meet Allie at the race! She's such a sweet, humble young lady!!!
"When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens.When he has base ends, and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy, and sometimes asquint. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| | 20 miles up Dimple Dell and down Wasatch....twice! 48 days till my Mt. Nebo mary....
"Knowledge is Power". --Francis Bacon
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| | 6 mile recovery run @ 3:30am......dark, warm and quiet with my running buddie, "M".
"There are two types of People. Those who come into a room and say,"Well, here I am!" and those who come in and say, "Ah, there you are!" --Frederick I. Collins
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| | 6 mi (7 X 800) @ 3:30am. 67 degrees, light breeze.....
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Thought for Today: “A liberal paradise would be a place where everybody has guaranteed employment, free comprehensive healthcare, free education, free food, free housing, free clothing, free utilities, and only law enforcement has guns.” “And believe it or not, such a place does indeed exist, It’s called prison.” --Sheriff Joe Arpaio Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office
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| | 7.11 mi easy run @5:am....cloudy, hot (80) and windy....tough run. I feel for all those that are running the Des News Mary, times are going to be 4 to 10% slower and many many more heat and hydration casulties....
Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity. --John F. Kennedy
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| | I forgot, for a moment, that I need to take a rest day every now and again.....so there it is. I'll go out tomorrow and pick up a few miles and have a pretty good week of running to put in the books.
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| | 4.4 shakedown run in the heat. 45 days till NEBO...
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| | 13 miles up Dimple Dell and down Wasatch. 80 degrees, full sunshine big cut back sunday.....
"Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love." --Nelson Rockerfeller
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| | Monday 6 mi recovery run...@3:30am
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| | 7 mi @ 3:30 am...hills
Hide not your talents. They for use were made.What's a sundial in the Shade?
--Benjamin Franklin
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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. ==Booker T Washington
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| | 20 mi distance run, Out on the PRT and then up Dimple Dell and Down Wasatch to home base.
One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after. --George Herbert
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| | 6 mi in the hills....62 degrees, 3:30am
More persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but thriugh fidelity to a worthy purpose. --Hellen Keller
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| | 2 mile shakedown - 1/2 mary this saturday.
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| | Rest day before the Provo River Trail 1/2 Marathon. Crazy Curts 1//2 mary!
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young! --Henry Ford
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Crazy Curt's Provo River Trail 1/2 Mary (13.109 Miles) 01:47:00, Place overall: 26, Place in age division: 1 | | OK, this race is in my record book. I had a really good time at Curt's race and it was just what I expected. To start with I got a reall good nights sleep, got up at 3:45 am and went through my usual ritual before a race. I packed all my stuff in a nap sack last night and got out the door at 4:am. It's a half hour drive to where I picked up my bib and got on the bus...
After getting off the bus I went to my gear bag to get my garmin out and functioning.....only to find that I had left it at home. Not to get excited or worried I decided right then and there to run this race by the way I was feeling at the moment sans the garmin.
As usual for a Crazy Curt race it was totally off the cuff and unorganized. After warming up I strolled down the canyon road a little ways to where the starting line usually is, there wasn't one. I did see some bunched up crime scene tape off to the side of the road and I figured it was Curts starting line.
Curt drove is aging multi passenger van just past the starting line and got out and gave us all a story about the oldest philosopher, I didn't get it, I myst have missed something in the translation. Anyway, he got back in his van and yelled out the windo to wait till 7:am and then start running....I love the way this guy operates? So the race was on, the smallest pack of runners I've seen in the past 17 times I've run this race. I'm guessing there were 200 runners.
So I just headed down the road looking for guys that were my age and older and passed them as quickly as I could. By the time I got to the up hill portion of the course at about mile 7 I calculated that I was in about 24 position overall in the race and I couldn't see any old guys ahead of me as we all ran the hair pin turn at the top of the hill. I was running about 8 minute miles and holding them pretty steady, all the while trying to go a little faster on the down hill and holding pace on the up hill portions.
As I progressed down the course I was out to about mile 12 before 4 runners managed to get passed me. I informed the three women as they passed me that they better keep a steady pace or I (the old guy) would be passing them before the finish line. That was all it took, they picked up their pace and left me like I was having nap right there in the middle of the trail. See if I do that again!!
I then made my way around the last turn and over the bridge and into the home stretch over the finish line. As I passed the finish line I observed the race clock indicate I had finished at about 1:47:00 or there abouts close. This was all fine and good but I actually carried my phone with me and had set my timer when I started. There seems to be about a 10 minute difference between my time and Curt's. Oh well I'm done and I had a great time running without my garmin and I defended my first place Age Division win for the third time in a row..........Yahoooooo.
26th place Open, 9th place in Masters, 1st place Age Division (60-64)
22 days till the Mt. Nebo Marathon......
"If you quit moving, they will shovel dirt in your face." --LM Hansen
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| | 5 mile easy recovery run. 80*, full sunshine, very light breeze.
If you would be wealthy think of saving as well as getting. --Benjamin Franklin
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"Most of us are so busy doing what we think we have to do, that we do not think about what we really want to do.--Robert Percival
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| | Decided to take another rest day and get ready for an early morning 20 mile trainer Saturday morning to kick off my three week taper.....
"There shall be eternal summer in the Grateful heart."--Celea Thaxter
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| | I t surly was a nice morning to sleep in......Rest Day
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| | 6.2 easy miles @ 3:30am. Windy morning w/a few sprinkles, @74 degrees, it's still dark at this time of the morning...."Getter' Done!" |
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| | 6.2 @ 3:30am, light rain, light breeze, thunder and lightning.....just fun all the way around
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| | Rest and training day for new runners.....1.5 m
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.--Napoleon Hill
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You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.--Cicero
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| | 7.2 mi up and down Dimple Dell Rd..........
It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.--J.K.Rowling
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| | 7.7 mi on Dimple Dell Road...........early in the morning! |
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| | 6.2 easy miles in the hills. Thats it for the 2nd week of taper, now it's down to the last 6 days before the Nebo....
Hey, I was just asked to run on a team doing the Las Vegas Ragnar, Yea! Now I can get my "Saints & Sinners" medal!! A real double medal run!
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| | 9.5 miles on Dimple Dell Road...love my hills...
"The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position. --Leo Buscaglia
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| | 3 mi easy run this am......this time (7am) Saturday and it's show time at the Nebo Mary!
"PPPPPP" Prior Prepration Prevents Piss Poor Performance --Tom Slick
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| | easy shake down 3 miler @ 4:am.....Saturdays showtime...
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The Mt. Nebo Marathon (26.2 Miles) 03:48:02, Place overall: 25, Place in age division: 1 | | September 6, 2014
The Nebo Marathon
Oh boy, what a day, what a beautiful marathon, and what a success it was for me as a runner. I started the day hoping to run a 3:30:xx marathon.
As I got out of bed Saturday morning, 15 minutes before the alarm went off, I felt like I had put together a pretty good training cycle to conquer the Nebo. I jumped out of bed and into my pre-prepared routine and quickly found myself at the parking area of the Payson High School, the staging area for the bus ride to the top of Payson canyon for the big run down the canyon. I don't recall seeing any "Green Temples of Doom" in the bus loading zone.
From all appearances, the race director seemed to have his race well under control. It may not have been up to the standard of a Boston or St. George marathon but pretty good none the less. The bus loading for the full mary and the half mary seemed to go off well with the race director boarding our bus telling us that there would be plenty of "Port-O-Potties" at the marathon staging and starting area. Three Port-O-Potties for 110 runners. Needless to say but the promised 6:30 am start was put off at least 10 minutes, to which a large number of marathoners were still in the Pottie line and unable to start with the main group. To the best of my knowledge, the race had registered about 110 full marathoners and about 850 half marathoners.
Just as the race was about to start, first light was breaking over the valleys below and it was a grand sight of the awesome beauty of the mountains here in Utah. Bang, Bang, Boom, Boom the race was off and running. I as usual made my way to as close to the starting line as possible and was immediately passed by the really fast runners and pretty much left me to run the race in my very own private running bubble. Seemed like about 22 or 23 runners got out ahead of me at this point and only one guy that looked like he was in my age group. I was running at a pace that left me behind the leaders and ahead of the main body of runners, running pretty much by myself. It was a beautiful run down the canyon in the tall pines, Quakies and fairly lush green underbrush. It wasn't a totally lonely run as the roads were open to traffic and the family and friends of some of the runners would leap frog the course cheering on all the runners including their runners.
The race course is billed as a predominately down hill dash to the finish starting at the 9200 foot elevation level.and ending at the 4800 ft. level. This race course like St. George has a net loss of elevation while your running up seven hills in the first 10 miles of the race and these hill are not to be taken lightly, they are brutal on your oxygen intake at that elevation. I found my breathing pretty labored in those first 10 miles. So at this point, about 10 miles, the course takes a very decidedly steep down grade to about the 19 mile mark while running rather narrow twisting, turning two lane black top road to the finish line on the rubberized track at the Payson High School. I might add that running on the track was the best part of running this race. The down hill grade was brutal on the legs.I'm certainly happy that almost every training run that I do is in the hills so I felt well prepared for the brutal down hill portions of this race.
At about mile 19 the course winds out of the shade covered canyon road and into the direct sunlight where the ambient temperature jumped up to about 77 degrees and the somewhat flatter running surface. It seems to me that at about this point in my race it all started to become much harder to keep up my earlier pace on the neighborhood roads and I started to give up some precious minutes to fatigue. Personally, I was running out of gas and it became a struggle to keep up my desired pace. I was really glad to see the end of this marathon.
My unofficial time via my Garmin was 3:48:08, about 18 minutes slower than I had expected....oh well, I finished with the shinny side up and feeling good about my performance. At the finish line the super volunteers met you with your finisher medal and an ice cold bottle of water. Further into the finish they had all the recovery drinks and foods and such. Pretty well organized finish area. Shortly there after the awards ceremony started and I was hoping that I might place in my age division. In this marathon my division was defined as 60+..... and I was not disappointed. I took 1st place in my age division. It was a great two medal marathon and these medals are huge and heavy. One for finishing and one for finishing first in my old man age division......Yea! The best that I can tell, I finished about 25th overall, but this is unofficial until Nebo publishes their/our results.
Would I run this marathon again? Ya, I'll do it again someday.
This news just in;
1.Official Mt Nebo Full Marathon finish time 3:48:02
2. #14 in overall male race finish
3. #1 in 60-99 Age Division
4. 25th in overall race
I think of a Hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.--Bob Dylan
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Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.--George Eliot
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| | A nice easy 1.5 mi. re-entry into training.....8 months till the Boston 2015.......tyi
Any change, any loss, does not make us victims. Others can shake you, surprise you, disappoint you, but they can't prevent you from acting, from taking the situation you're presented with and moving on. --Blaine Lee
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I think of a Hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.--Bob Dylan
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| | Today will be my last recoop day ...it's time to start getting ready for Las Vegas Ragnar....I want my Saints & Sinners medal
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| | 6 mi on the Dimple Dell Road......
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| | Nice easy 6 mile recovery run.....
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| | rest day By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.--Benjamin Franklin | |
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| | 8 miles up and down Dimple Dell mt road in lite rain @ 63 degrees. Nice run...I went over to the BAA website and check for my name on the 2015 Boston Marathon runners list.....and found it! Yea, I'm doing Boston next April.
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| | 6.2 mi @ 3:30am.....63 degrees, dark and quiet.....
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If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health. --Hippocrates
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| | 8.4 mi run up and down Dimple Dell Mt Rd. 52 degrees, 47 dewpoint, 77% humidity, cloudy, w/scattered rain showers. 205 days till The Boston......TYI.
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent".--Isaac Asimov
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| | 6.2 mi @ 3:30am on the Dimple Dell Mt Road......dark, quiet, & cool @ 50 degrees...1.5 mi training the girls.
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Hey Lark, welcome to the FRB................lets hear from you!
"A man without a passion is like a vessel waiting for wind and not budging." --Arse'ne Houssaye
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| | 5 mi @ 3:30am on 17th and 13th East loop....42 degrees, dark, clear and nice.
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| | 6.2 @ 3:30am, 46 degrees, clear,cool & dark....I only saw 1 car this morning on my run. & 1.5 mi training with my girls......7.7 total
"To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind."------------Pearl S. Buck
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| | Rest day for me, following all my friends running the St Geo Marathon.........good luck runners!
"Never explain, your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway."--------Elbert Hubbard
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| | 9 mi on Dimple Dell Mt Road @ 7:am. Clear, cool and light. On to Boston....
"Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads, Let love through good deeds show."------Edwin Aronald
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| | 6 mi @ 3:30am, 52 degrees, dark and cool...
"Laughter is the closest distance between two people." --Victor Borge
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| | 6 mi @ 3:30am.....54 degrees, dark, cool and quite....
"Fun has no limits; it is like the human race and face; theres is a family resemblance among all the species, but they all differ."--Sam Slick
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| | 8 mi on the Dimple Dell Mt. Road......
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"That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest." --Henry David Thoreau
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| | 6 mi @ 3:30 am....cool, dark and 45 degrees.
Advice is like snow; the softer is falls, and the longer it dwells upon,
and the deeper it sinks into the mind.--Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads Let love through good deeds show.--Edwin Arnold (rerun)
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| | 8 mi @ 3:30am....44degrees, dark, cool and oh so quiet!
"A true friend is forever a friend." --George Macdonald
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| | 3 mi @ 10: am, @56 degrees, partly cloudy w/lots of sunshine. 20 days and a couple of hours till Ragnar Las Vegas and only 183 days till Boston 2015.
I was on the BAA website and I noticed that there were only 356 runners invited to the 2015 Boston because they had 10 or more consecutive runs at Boston.. I thought there would be more than that! And I was certainly surprised when the BAA invited me to register back in August.
"Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reasures them." --Andre' Maurois
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| | 8 maintanance miles this am on the Dimple Dell Mt. Road. 45 degrees, at first light, no wind, life is good.....
"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elemination of nonessentials." --Lin Yutang
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"All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come." --Victor Hugo
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| | I just kinda slept in this morning, maybe I will run this afternoon. 14 days till Ragnar Vegas where I get My Saints and Sinners medal.
"A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life." --Charles Darwin
"How's all that Hope and Change Bull Shit working out for you?" --Tom Slick
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"One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is prepration."--Arthur Ashe
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| | 9 mi on the double D Mt road at 6:30am....went out and backed up my 8 miler yesterday with 9 this am to mimic the 17 mi that I will run in less that 24 hours at the Vegas Ragnar in November. I feel good!
"We would never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world." --Helen Keller
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"The deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refused to be written. --Amos Bronson Alcott
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"It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom. --Aristotle
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"I am determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be: for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. --Martha Washington
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"If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out lioke a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke." --Brendan Francis
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| | 5 easy mi @ 3:30am - shake down before Ragnar Vegas....11-7&8-'14
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul. -Henry Ward Beecher
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"The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small". --Samuel Johnson
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| | rest day - ragnar starts friday at @ noon for me.....
"When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship". --Barbara De Angelis
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| | Well it's time to have a high mileage day....I'm off to Vegas with our team to run the Las Vegas Ragnar and get my Saints & Sinner medal for running the Wasatch Back and Vegas. Thanks to Rhett and Smooth for the motivation and best wishes.......I'll kick out a run report on this adventure on sunday or monday......
Chow-boing ya'all
"Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction". --Anne Frank
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Las Vegas Ragnar (18.2 Miles) 01:32:00, Place overall: 120 | | 18.2 miles in two days of running the Ragnar Vegas. I really don't like not getting my sleep but, Ragnar is a lot of fun and you make a lot of new friends along the way. Out team, "Lloyd is Awesome" finished in as 120th position out of 423 teams running. Not bad for a split 6 pak team from all over the place. I'm sorry this is a very brief race report, but I ran this LV Ragnar so I could get my "Saints and Sinners" medal for running the Wasatch Back Ragnar and Vegas this year......been there, did that and got the medal.....
#Lloyd
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| | To all my Veteran friends, "Thank you for your service to the United States of America and her people"!!!
Reagan on Veterans Day: ‘Peace Fails When We Forget What We Stand For’
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| | It was 28 degrees out there this morning, so I decided to take a rest/recovery day. I will start my return to training Thursday morning.
"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company" --George Washington
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| | 7.5 miles @ 3:30am, 26 degrees with little or no wind. It was brisk but felt just lovely. Now it's on to Boston 2015 in 157 days or Bust!!!!
"Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything". --Mary Hemingway
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| | Rest day "Happiness, like a refreshing stream, flows from heart to heart in endless circulation."--Henry Grove
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| | 7 miles on the "DDMR", 30 degrees and the sun was out and shining thru clear blue skies. The rest and recovery period from Ragnar is over......150 days till the 2015 Boston Marathon!
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| | rest and doctor visits......Uck!
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| | I was going to go out for a run but it was too windy, rainy and such, so I just added the day to a growing streak rest days.....I'll get out and run on Sunday for sure.
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| | 6 miles early this am on the DDMR. Happy Thanksgiving everybody!
"Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies."--Charles E. Jefferson
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| | 6 mi, mid morning on the DDMR. 58 degrees with a little wind.
"Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles." --Edwin Louis Cole
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| | 6 miles this am, w/o the garmin. It's nice to just go without limits.
"Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children." --Charles R. Swindoll
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| | 8 miles up and down the DDMR. Easy run Sunday. About 40 f, cloudy, just a little bit of wind, but a nice run oveall. And it done.
"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts."--John Locke
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| | Rest day
"Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it." --Robbie Gass
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| | 6 mi at 10:am on the DDMR
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool." William Shakespear
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| | 6 mi on the DDMR...........nice day for a run, 60 f, suns out, no wind......
"More people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at that comes out of you. --William James
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| | Day off from running today. Getting ready to really ramp up the training for Boston '15.
"A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew."--Herb Caen
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| | 7.5 mi on the DDMR this morning. @45f, fairly clear skies and no wind. 134 days till Boston.
"Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours." --C.S. Lewis
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| | 8 easy sunday miles in the hills on the D D M R......
"Determine to never be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing."--Thomas Jefferson
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| | Running rest day, weight resistance workout
"If your not using your smile, you're like a man with a million dollars in the bank and no checkbook." --Les Giblin
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| | 6 miles on the DDMR (hills)
"The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does." --Napoleon Hill
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| | 6 mi @ 3:30am on the DDMR W/my running bud...
"Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state.Being in love shows a person who he should be."--Anton Chekhov
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| | Weight Resistance Workout & a 6 mile run on the DDMR.........tyi
"Long and curious speeches are as fit for dispatch as a robe, or Mantle, with a long train, is for a race." --Francis Bacon
129 days till the Greatest Running Show on Earth
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| | 3 easy miles and a hard w/o.
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| | Running rest day, rope and weight w/o....
"Christmas my child is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas."--Dale Evans
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| | 4 easy miles
"Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward towards finding the answer." --Denis Waitley
121 days till Boston......
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| | Weight Resistance W/O, 30 min on the rope, cardio calisthenics ...
"Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or doing it better." -- John Updike
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| | 8 miles on the DDMR.
"If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend." --Abraham Lincoln
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| | 6 miles on the DDMR.
"You were placed on this earth to create, not compete." --Robert Anthony
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| | Run rest day, Rope and weight W/O....
"Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends."--Henry Ward Beecher
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| | Merry Christmas to one and all.
"Christmas waves a magic wand over the world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful." --Norman Vincent Peale
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| | 6 miles on the PRT - @22 degrees, sunshine w/slight breeze.......
"A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier." --Tom Stoppard
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| | 7 miles on the DDMR. 30 degrees, lt snow, lt breeze, no sunlight,
"A life lived with integrity---even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whos light others my follow in the years to come." --Denis Waitley
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| | No run today, had some other stuff to do and I had about 5 inches of snow every where.
"If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstablewithout knowing it." --Herodotus
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Beat the New Year 5k (3.107 Miles) 00:19:23 | | I beat the New Years Clock; 19:23 for a 3.2 mile fun run in the Sugar House Park. Hey there was little or no wind and is was somewhere between 1 degree and 6 degrees with a blanket of snow all over the park. At least the road way around the park wasn't snow covered. Anyway, it was a fun evening on the run.....Happy New Year to all my running friends here on the FRB.....
"What we see mainly depends on what we look for."--John Lubbock
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Brooks Pure Cadence Miles: 229.62 | BA NYC Miles: 7.50 | PC2 Miles: 214.15 | NBA9 Miles: 6.00 | PC2-2 Miles: 369.36 | BA9 Miles: 25.00 | Brooks B9 Addiction Miles: 33.00 | Altra Miles: 329.81 | Altra B Miles: 329.56 | Altra C Miles: 186.41 | Newton Distance S Miles: 12.20 | Altra Torin Miles: 61.20 | AI 2.0 Miles: 61.20 | Adidas RC Miles: 8.00 |
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