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, Mar 03, 2010

Slow miles	Fast miles	Total Distance
7.50	2.50	10.00

5 miles in 46:46 at 5:10 a.m. Skyline Drive to gate and back via Loma Vista and Upland Loops. 40 degrees or more. Should have had one less layer and been in shorts. The warm before the storm, I suppose.

Yasso intervals at 5:00 p.m. at Stansbury High School track, 5 x 800's in 3:17, 3:19, 3:18, 3:16, and 3:18 with 400 recovery after each. 1 mile warm up in Stansbury before hitting the track.

Nike Structure Triax +12 Red #1 Miles: 5.00	Nike Structure Triax +12 Red #2 Miles: 5.00

Comments

From Kelli on Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 17:40:02 from 71.219.89.82

The weather has been weird today, at least on our side of the mountain! We had about 30 minutes of perfectly beautiful, sunny, non-windy weather, but the rest of the day has been yucky and windy and rain/sleet has fallen intermittently! Spring is trying to arrive, I think.

Nice run!

From artichoke on Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 21:39:32 from 71.37.120.226

You're right. I was in Herriman this afternoon at the new high school and we had both sun and then rain within a half hours time.

From Kelli on Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 09:43:00 from 71.219.89.82

What were you doing at the HS? That road just west of the school is my favorite to run on---long and super flat!

From artichoke on Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 10:36:48 from 216.49.181.254

I was on a building inspection at the new LDS Seminary building adjacent to the schoool. It's just framed up and they've just started the brick.

From Kelli on Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 17:05:27 from 71.219.89.82

Very cool. They were working a bunch on it when I ran by last Friday. I will check out the progress when I run by tomorrow!

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