Artichoke's Running Blog (Ken Spence)

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Location:

Tooele & Ivins,UT,USA

Member Since:

Oct 30, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Age Division Winner

Running Accomplishments:

St. George Marathon 20-year Club (completed 26)

Boston Marathon 2006, 2007, 2008, 2016, 2017 (+DNF 2011)

Running for 39 years, logged 58,000 miles since 1982. 38 marathons.

Old Man PR's:

5K = 19:58 - July 4th Freedom Run 7/4/08

6K = 26:38 - Cold Turkey Rrrun, 11/23/06

10K = 43:00 - Deseret News, 7/24/08

1/2 Marathon = 1:32:54 - Hobble Creek, 8/23/08

Marathon = 3:23:13 - St. George, 10/4/08 (Boston Qualifier)

Boston Best: 3:35:07, 4/21/08 (Boston Qualifier)

Boston Worst: DNF, 4/18/11

Short-Term Running Goals:

Keep running!

Long-Term Running Goals:

Keep running for another 20 years.

Personal:

Married for 44 years to a wonderful and supportive wife. She's run 2 marathons herself in our earlier years so that helps. 4 boys, all married, and 10 grandchildren. 2 sons are runners. I celebrated 39 years of running madness, insanity, or at least OCD, on August 23rd, 2021.

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Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	0.00
Nike Free Lifetime Miles:						22.50
Saucony Peregrine Trail Lifetime Miles:						318.15
Asics 2000 Aqua #2 Lifetime Miles:						419.50
Asics 2000 Aqua #3 Lifetime Miles:						393.10
Asics 2000 Gray/Yellow Lifetime Miles:						610.30
Saucony Peregrine Trail #2 Lifetime Miles:						168.40
Asics 2000 Aqua #4 Lifetime Miles:						355.00

Wed, Aug 19, 2009

Slow miles	Fast miles	Total Distance
0.00	10.00	10.00

10 mile tempo run tonight at 7:30 p.m. Smelter Road hills, solo. Chi running in places. Able to hold form longer. 45:45 at 5 going up, 9:09 pace. Overall time, 1:27:19. About 8:45 pace overall. Felt strong in places. Nice evening, nice temperatures. Beautiful sunset to the west over the lake and the Stansbury Mountains.

Comments

From Kelli on Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 23:41:16 from 71.219.64.200

I bet it was a nice sunset and I am so glad you are out enjoying the running and the weather.

When is your next race?

From artichoke on Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 23:43:47 from 71.38.252.109

Top of Utah 1/2. I'll be running with a friend to get her through her very first 1/2 marathon. Then St. George in October and Snow Canyon 1/2 in November. You?

From Kelli on Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 23:51:47 from 71.219.64.200

Hobblecreek was supposed to be the next, but I have been benched off and on since the end of June and am currently under strict orders to NOT run. I may run the 1/2 in Spanish Fork in two weeks, still hoping to run the Payson 10k, then St George. It will be a lousy marathon with my training being so rudely interrupted, but oh well!

Good luck to you two in Logan. I will anxiously await the results next weekend. I hope she does well.

From artichoke on Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 23:58:03 from 71.38.252.109

I can relate. St. George will be slower for me than the last 4 years. I'm coming off a sacral stress fracture in April and it's tough to get back to where I was. Good luck to you and hope you have a speedy recovery.

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