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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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Asics 2000 Gray/Yellow Lifetime Miles: 610.30
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Asics 2000 Aqua #4 Lifetime Miles: 355.00
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9:00 a.m. 5 miles fairly easy with Tina. Light snowfall or drizzle. Vine - Droubay Rd. - Smelter Rd. loop back through Newtown. Bagged going to the gym afterwards.

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No running. Christmas day. Ate too much.

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5:30 a.m.  5 TM miles in 45:18 at Gold's Gym.  Progression run.  Snowing quite heavily right now.   Postponing going to Ivins until Thursday or Friday.

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7:30 a.m. 5 TM miles at the gym in 45:18. Progression run from 9:50 to 7:20 pace.

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9:00 a.m. St. George Gold's Gym. 3x15x7 machines, upper body weights plus 20 minutes recumbent cycling.

12:30 p.m. Ivins, UT. 5 mile run with Pickles from home to the Anasazi trail head, off Old Highway 91 and back direct.

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10:00 a.m. Ivins, UT. 12 mile easy run up into Snow Canyon to the end of the paved path, which is exactly 5.0 miles from our house. Turn around and back home for 10 and to pick up Pickles for the final 2 mile loop back up to the Snow Canyon Parkway trail along Center St. and back down Puerto Drive and home. 1:54:12, slow but a beautiful day for a run down here while avoiding thinking about the 12" of snow sitting on our lawn in Tooele.

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