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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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5 miles at 5:05 a.m.  Very easy, muddy at the gate.  37 degrees.  Standard Skyline Route.

5 miles at 6:15 p.m.  Fairly easy in 44:58.  Bagged the tempo run due to wet, stinging snow coming down after the first 1/2 mile.  Got worse throughout.  Skyline, Broadway, 7th to Utah Avenue, zig-zagged home via the Jr. High School route.  Winter is back tonight.

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5 miles very slow on some icy spots.  5:05 a.m.  32 degrees.  Skyline to gate and back plus loop to the west.

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5 miles to gate at end of Skyline and back via Upland Drive route in 46:41, easy pace at 5:10 a.m.  Colder this morning at about 32 degrees.  Cold breeze from the canyons going out.

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5 miles easy at 5:05 a.m.  Even colder at 30 degrees, but supposed to warm up nicely today to 60.  We'll see.  I have an evening 7 miler, so I hope that's the case.  I'm sick of winter.

7 miles moderate to tempo pace.  6:10 p.m.  58:11, 8:18 ave. pace.  Cemetery and Broadway route to Vine and up Middle Canyon 1/2 mile down to Smelter Road and zig-zagged through town back home.  Very nice evening.  59 degrees, sunny and clear.  Long sleeves way too warm tonight.  Felt good most of the run.

Asics 2150 Gold #1 Miles: 12.00
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5 mile easy recovery run at 5:10 a.m.  Standard Skyline route to gate and back plus loop to the west.  A bit tired this morning.

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7:30 a.m. run.  35-45 degrees.  Mostly sunny.  Up the Smelter Road hills to gate past mile 6 and then back down and thru Erda to the north end of Stansbury.  10 with Tina on her 13 mile run.   A good run.  5 minutes faster than last week for the same route.  Tina pushes the downhills pretty good.  Slowest mile: 9:39 on steepest Smelter Rd. hill.  Fastest:  Consecutive 7:13, 7:16, and 7:14 at miles 10-12 into Erda.  Average pace:  8:17.  A local bike race event was going on along the course on Smelter Road.

Asics 2150 Gold #1 Miles: 18.00
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