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

Mon, Sep 12, 2011

Slow miles	Fast miles	Total Distance
5.00	0.00	5.00

5:10 a.m. Gold's Gym with Sharon for 40 minutes. 20 min. elliptical and 20 min. upright cycling.

6:00 p.m. Chicago. 5 mile run from hotel to loop around Soldier Field, Aquarium, and Planetarium then north along the Lakefront Path to the Marina by Navy Pier and back to the hotel. Pretty easy running in 45:55, 9:11 average pace.

Also about 3 miles walking up Michigan Avenue to Giordano's Pizza and back.

Saucony Guide4 #1 Miles: 5.00

Comments

From Burt on Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 13:08:01 from 206.19.214.144

Have you decided whether or not you're doing SGM?

From artichoke on Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 13:52:45 from 167.165.53.61

I'm not doing it this year. I'm still in rehab a bit with my back, although doing much better. Hope to get registered for it next year if I can get my mileage up without any issues. We are going to go down to watch the race, which will be a different perspective for me. Are you going to run it? I may get down in November again for the Snow Canyon 1/2 if things continue to go well.

From Burt on Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 14:21:13 from 206.19.214.144

I'm not running it. But one of these years I should at least go watch it, too.

From allie on Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 21:43:55 from 24.10.191.18

cool run. chicago is a neat place.

hi burt.

From Burt on Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 22:35:28 from 72.223.91.148

Hi allie McBeal.

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