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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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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
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Asics 2150 Blue #1 Miles: 25.00
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5 miles at 6:15 p.m.  Used Icy Hot, stretched, and wrapped the hamstring before I ran.  No real problems tonight, but an extremely slow pace.  I can just begin to feel something not right still when I try to pick up the pace even a bit.  Still need to be careful.

Asics 2150 Blue #1 Miles: 5.00
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4 miles easy again, like last night.  6:20 p.m.  To real issues.   Heading to St. George Wednesday and Thursday on business, but hope to get a run in along the Virgin River trail sometime, if I can get the people I'm with to cooperate on the schedule a bit.

Asics 2150 Blue #1 Miles: 4.00
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4 miles on Virgin River / Mayor's Loop in St. George.  34 degrees down in the river bottom.  Easy running.  Hamstring not too bad.  Dark for first mile.  Few runners out.

Asics 2150 Blue #1 Miles: 4.00
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4 very slow miles this morning at 5:00 a.m.  Didn't push anything.  Hamstring okay at that pace.

Asics 2150 Blue #1 Miles: 4.00
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8 miles with Tina at 9:00 a.m.  Middle Canyon route to above gas line and back home direct.  Fairly slow going up.  Careful coming down.  Hamstring okay, but had it tightly wrapped.  Icy roads in spots.  7 miles in 1:04:12.  8 miles in about 1:12:30.  Felt good and had a decent week.  Still feel like I need to be very careful.  Tina slowed down for me a lot today, but it was good to be back running with her.

Asics 2150 Blue #1 Miles: 8.00
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Asics 2150 Blue #1 Miles: 25.00
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