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

Mon, Sep 20, 2010

Slow miles	Fast miles	Total Distance
0.00	0.00	0.00

No running. Visited the doctor. Confirmed left hamstring tendonitis. Prescribed prednizone and physical therapy. Saw the therapist this afterrnoon. He feels it is a bit of a pull with some tendonitis adjacent to the tear. I have visible bruising on the lower hamstring just above the knee. He is fairly optimistic I can do the marathon in 12 days. He said if it was really bad, I wouldn't be walking with as little pain as I am. Had electrical stimulus treatment, ultrasound, massage, and iced compression. Wants me back on Wednesday and Friday. Maybe a little cycling or swimming on Thursday and an easy run on Saturday with no elevation changes, so I guess I'll be at the track. There's nothing flat in Tooele except that track. We'll see how it goes.

Comments

From Burt on Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 18:29:47 from 206.19.214.144

Man, I hope you get better. I was talking to a local speed demon down here yesterday. He just pulled his hammy, too, I think. Before that he was having sciatic (sp?) problems. Now he's not. The doctor thinks there was some scar tissue that was inflaming the nerve and it was just waiting to go.

From artichoke on Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 19:30:38 from 75.169.42.114

Thanks. I'm cautiously optimistic, but until I get running on it again, I won't know. I know it could be a lot worse, but this just came out of nowhere. Physical therapy and prednisone got me through the Salt Laek marathon in 2006 when I had achilles problems, so I can only hope for the same miracle.

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