Artichoke's Running Blog (Ken Spence)

Provo River 1/2 Marathon

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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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5:00 a.m. 5 miles easy w/ Pickles on Skyline to gate and back via Loma Vista and Upland loop.

6:15 p.m. To track and back via 100 W. and Vine toTHS. 3x800 in 3:28, 3:30+, 3:24 w/ 400 recovery after each. To and from with Rick. Quite warm.

Saucony Guide4 #3 Miles: 5.00Asics 2000 Orange Miles: 5.00
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5:00 a.m. Gold's Gym. 3x15x6 machines upper body weights then 20 minutes recumbent cycling.

6:00 p.m. 6+ mile trail run with Rick starting on lower part of Dark Trail then left hand fork trail and up into Bear Trap and back same way. Quite warm until in the shaded part of the upper trail. Pretty tough going up tonight.

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5:00 a.m. Gold's Gym: 20/20 elliptical/upright cycling workout.

6:00 p.m. 4 miles easy in 36:36, 9:09 AP with Rick on the Westland route.

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5:00 a.m. 40 minutes stationary cycling at the gym. Pretty easy at Level 11. 9.75 miles.

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5:15 p.m. Gold's Gym. 3x15x5 machines upper body weights, 20 minutes recumbent cycling.

Provo River Half Marathon tomorrow morning.

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Race: Provo River 1/2 Marathon (13.1 Miles) 01:40:37, Place overall: 20
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7:00 a.m. Provo River 1/2 Marathon. 1:40:37 (Garmin). First race I've run in a long time without chip timing. 20th place overall men. 7:41 AP. Nice run in South Fork and Provo Canyon on the river trail. Haven't run this race since 2007 and the numbers are way down from years ago. About 250 runners. More of a fun run atmosphere, which was actually a nice change of pace. My son, Rick, PR'd at 1:35:34. Great job Rick!

Saucony Pro Guide 6 #1 Miles: 13.00
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