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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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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
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Saucony Peregrine Trail Miles: 5.00Saucony Guide4 #3 Miles: 10.00Saucony Pro Guide 6 #1 Miles: 32.00Asics 2000 Orange Miles: 5.00Asics Gel Kayano Miles: 4.00
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5:00 a.m. 5 miles easy with Pickles on Skyline and lower loops coming back,

6:30 p.m. 5 miles on the double track trails from Pine Canyon to base of the Oquirrh's and back with Rick. Pretty dusty, but a great view of the valley and down to the lake.

Saucony Peregrine Trail Miles: 5.00Saucony Guide4 #3 Miles: 5.00
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3.003.006.00

5:00 a.m. Gold's Gym: 3x15x6 machines upper body weights. 20 min. elliptical.

6:15 p.m. To track and back with Rick. 5x800 Yasso's in 3:33, 3:27, 3:26, 3:21, 3:22 with 400 recovery after each. 1 mile around the grass playing fields after.

Saucony Pro Guide 6 #1 Miles: 6.00
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5.008.0013.00

5:00 a.m. 5 miles easy with Pickles on the Skyline and Upland route.

6:15 p.m. 8 miles with Rick and Matt3 across town and up into Middle Canyon and back. Tempo effort in 1:08:55, 8:37 AP.

Asics 2000 Orange Miles: 5.00Saucony Pro Guide 6 #1 Miles: 8.00
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5:00 a.m. Gold's Gym. 3x15x6 machines upper body weights then 20 minutes recumbent cycling.

6:15 p.m. 5 miles at about 80% effort in 42:40, 8:32 AP. Alley paths to 600 N. and over to Coleman and back via THS.

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4.000.004.00

5:15 a.m. 4 miles easy with Pickles on the Skyline route.

Asics Gel Kayano Miles: 4.00
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3.0015.0018.00

6:30 a.m. Ivins, Utah. 18 miles from Ivins to St. George Gold's Gym. 2:39:27. East along Snow Canyon Parkway path, down lower Halfway Wash path to Dixie Dr. down to the Santa Clara pathway to Confluence Park then east along the Virgin River path to the end and back to the Middleton Wash and up to Gold's Gym. Struggled a bit the last 7 miles, but otherwise satisfied. Happy for my son, Rick, running the TOU 1/2 this morning in 1:34:17. Way to go Rick!

Saucony Pro Guide 6 #1 Miles: 18.00
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