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Deseret New 10K

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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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Fri, Jul 24, 2009
Race: Deseret New 10K (6.2 Miles) 01:01:58
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
6.200.006.20

Deseret News 10k this morning.  1:01:58 with Gina and Matt2.  Gina did great!  I'm really pleased.  I know she wanted to get under 1 hour, but I still think she did very well.  Nearly the same pace as her 5k on July 4th.  Splits: 9:26, 9:26, 10:05, 9:58, 9:45, 10:37.  Clock time will be in the 1:04 or 1:05 range and will be posted that way by the Deseret News, which is lame.  Nobody manning the first waterstop.  What a joke this race is!  They definitely need to get their act together.  I have had some kind of issue every year with this event.  Short course, one year, on a "certified" course.  Late starts, etc.  Lousy aid stations.  They need to learn from some of the better races, in my opinion.  I hope the marathon runners received better than what I saw with the 10k.  Why I continue to support this race is beyond me!

Comments
From Matt on Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 14:17:13 from 65.121.71.253

Congrats on getting it done and supporting your wife. I am doing the same with mine for TOU. Tell Gina she beat everyone who was afraid to start. She us Awesome.

From marion on Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 14:52:04 from 71.213.106.139

Good job Sherpa/coach Arti! Being one of those runners who needs a coach/sherpa, I can't tell you how much you mean to Gina :) Good man!

From Kelli on Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 15:46:14 from 71.219.89.21

Hard to believe a race that big would not have the water station set up. That is crazy!

Nice job!

From Kelli on Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 15:47:03 from 71.219.89.21

Afterthought---who are Gina and Matt2? Just curious who you were running with!

From artichoke on Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 18:00:56 from 71.37.109.139

Gina and Matt2 are people I train with. Gina is a close friend who is traing for her first 1/2 marathon next month and hopefully her first marathon next spring at Ogden. She is bitten big-time by the running bug. I call Matt, Matt2, because the last couple of years I've trained with another Matt. So, I used to train with Tina and Matt1, now I've traded them in to train with Gina and Matt2. It's all so confusing.

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