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Cold Turkey 6K Rrrun

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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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24.2813.5637.84
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4.001.005.00

5:45 p.m. run.  5 miles in 45:55 or 9:11 pace.  Pretty cold at 28 degrees.  Pretty much a wandering route to avoid the icy roadways.  Skyline-Broadway to East Elementary- back down to 200 North, loop around high school back to 100 West and home.  Not a bad run, all things considered.

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3.002.005.00

5:45 p.m. run. Same distance as last night but at about 1 minute faster overall. 44:52 or 8:58 pace. Progressively faster with each mile, of course the last 2.5 was downhill.  First run in new Nike Zoom.  I guess my 20 year boycott of  Nike is now over.  Shoes felt fine, but a bit less cushion than the Asics 2140 I've been running in.  We'll see if I can get the mileage anywhere close to what I used to get with the original Nike Pegasus  I used from about 1984 until 1992.  We'll see.

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0.000.000.00

Resting today.

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Race: Cold Turkey 6K Rrrun (3.88 Miles) 00:27:55, Place overall: 50, Place in age division: 5
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0.003.883.88

My annual Turkey Trot race this morning.  A good race, put didn't place.  (That even rhymes!).  In the past years I've been placing in the top 3 of the M 50-54 division, but not today.  5/17 in M50-54 and 50/534 total field.  It's my last year in this division, so maybe next year.  A couple of speedsters have moved up to my age division.  My Garmin showed the distance at 3.88, compared ot 3.72 for a 6K, so my pace was at 7:12 overall, which I felt very good about.  Pace at each mile:  7:36 and 7:49, going up, then 6:44 and 6:33 coming down to Memory Grove.  A great event on Thanksgiving and nice weather the last several years.

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7.286.6813.96

9:00 a.m. run with Tina for 6.68 miles in 55:30.  8:20 pace.  Pushed the downhills a bit. Felt good.  10:00 a.m. 7.28 mile run, with Gina for 5.  Very slow and easy pace.  13.96 total miles this morning.  Nice and sunny 45 to 50 degrees, but clouding up towards the end.  10 scheduled for tomorrow morning.

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10.000.0010.00

9:00 a.m. run.  Sunny but still cold.  Slight breeze from the north.  10 miles very slow at about 10:35 pace with Gina.  First long run with her in several weeks.  She was feeling it at the end, but otherwise a decent run from Tooele to Stansbury with an extra mile to the west of the finish at the church.

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24.2813.5637.84
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