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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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31.4010.0041.40
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4.001.005.00

28 degrees at 2:30 p.m.  Make up run from Friday.  Nice to do my standard route with some daylight.  Fairly easy effort.  One mile in 7:51.  Uphill miles at 9's or slower.  5 miles in 46:21 or about 8:43 overall pace.  Salvaged the week, but need to get a couple of 12 mile Saturday's and an 14 miler in sometime before Painter's 1/2 Marathon in St. George in mid-January.

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0.005.005.00

Nice to have some more daylight to run in.  I'm off until January 5th!  9:00 a.m. run in the snow.  Got bad while I was out there half way.  5 miles at 9:00 pace overall.  Not all that fast, but considering in multiple layers and slick roads, I think it was a good effort. 

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4.202.006.20

6.2 miles or 10 kilometers over a modified standard route, mostly adding hillwork in the subdivisions of Elk Ridge and Deer Hollow.  55:45, or just under 9:00 minute miles.  Fairly easy effort.  Cloudy and 25 degrees, light snow in places and sunshine at the end.  Felt pretty good.

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6.600.006.60

6.6 miles wandering.  Easy 9:24 pace.  Cold, but sunny and clear.  A nice morning for a run.  Felt pretty good.  Taking tomorrow off for Christmas and then hope to hit another 6 on Friday and a long run on Saturday.  Need to get a 12 miler in.  Painter's Half marathon in St. George is coming up fast.  I'm not feeling ready, but it's an early event.

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0.000.000.00

Christmas Day.  Didn't run.  New treadmill is all set and ready to go.  No more excuses on cold, wet mornings.

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6.600.006.60

Slow running on snow and ice with cleats.  6.6 miles with Tina and her sister-in-law, Sonya, from Spokane, WA.  People looked at us as if we were nuts out there running on snowy, icy roads, but it was an enjoyable run.  10:00 minute miles was about the best we could do overall.  10 miles, at least, tomorrow is a must.  I hope the roads are cleared and the weather improving.

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10.002.0012.00

10 miler on ice and snow.  Cleats worked okay, but slow run at just under 10 minute miles overall.  4 miles with Sonya and about 8+ with Tina.  Came home at 10 miles and hit 2 more on the treadmill.  Sloppy, ugly, cold, wet weather.  Glad to get in 12.  Painter's Half-marathon in 3 weeks. 

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