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Location:

Logan,UT,USA

Member Since:

Dec 15, 2009

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

PRs after age 40:

 

5k     15:15  Running of the Leopards.

8k      22:21  Alta Death Dash

10k   33:02    Des News

Half Marathon      1:10  Timp Half

Marathon        2:32    Ogden

First solo R2R2R Bass Trails Grand Canyon 

First R2R2R Grand Canyon Toroweap Overlook

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

Not be fat all year

Long-Term Running Goals:

Smell the dirt, feel the mountain, taste the wind.

Personal:

 

"Our legs are tight, our feet are flying, and we are gliding over the roll of the land. The sun is up, the air is fresh, the stone is old, and we are free and at peace. The clock has stopped because another time has taken over." C. Bowden

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10 miles along a cross country ski trail in Minneapolis.  Awesome, nice easy run.

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What a week for running!  18 miles on the beach in Fort Lauderdale.  Easy pace and a nice day. 

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3 miles and lift weights

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1 mile warm up, 3X3 miles @6min pace, 1 mile cool down

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10 miles along Logan bench

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10 miles in Ammon, ID at 6:15 pace

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8 miles in Ammon, Id

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12 miles on Legacy Trail in Salt Lake.

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Easy day!

3 miles in Logan early morning

3 miles along the Hudson in New York

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Four easy miles along the Hudson River with the flight attendants so it was a fun easy morning.

10 miles at 5:55 pace in Central Park and two miles cool down with Roadrunners club. This one kicked my butt!

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4 miles along the beach in San Diego early morning.  This is what running is about!  The sun is just comming up and everybody is out for their morning run.

 

8 miles north of Dallas, Tx at night.  Kind of a scary run, totally dark with no moon and a lot of bats!  But a great day of running!

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8 miles out in what I call the Colorado desert.  Beautiful run and just took it easy at a 7 min pace.

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Race: Striders 10 Miler (10 Miles) 01:00:38, Place overall: 2, Place in age division: 1
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Fun race!  I had decided to just take it easy today and have a good time with the run since it was a hilly run and I had no time to see the course.  I'm not a very good hill runner, just have not trained for them so I have no confidence when it comes to these kind of races.  I started out slow and after a mile or two I decided I better pick up the pace.  Walter and Ben were way out front.  It looked like they were half a mile ahead but it felt so good to just be tooling along and enjoying it.  When the downhill stretch came along at around two miles picked it up enough to catch up at least to Walter.  Then Bastard Hill came along, on the 10K it just kicked my butt, today it didn't seem that bad.  Maybe some of these runs have been paying off or maybe it's just not running the course after a marathon.  I thought someone would pass me for sure on the hills so I let it go each time I went down to at least keep some kind of a good pace up.  I wanted to run an average of 5:45 on this course but just settled for a 6:00 pace and just enjoyed the run.

Mile splits:

5:53

5:03

5:58

6:54

6:43

7:35

5:07

5:43

5:58

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8 mile recover run

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12 miles @ 7 pace.  Out south of Denver airport in the dark.

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8 miles in Salt Lake City.  Great morning!

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First long run to start the summer training season.  Headed out north out of Phoenix along a canal and then transitioned to a trail that just went out into nowhere.  It was awesome, not a car or person in sight for 15 miles or so.

First 11 miles just under a 7 min pace, then didn't find any water so I had to drop of 20 seconds a mile just to get it done.  That left a mark..

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9 miles today along Rush waterway in Houston, TX.  Nice day for a run and good to get some easy miles in all on grass!

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17 miles easy in Houston, TX followed by a 1/2 lb burger, homecut fries and a large slice of pecan pie!

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First interval workout of the year.  Man this hurt!  2 mile warm-up, 10-800s,  6-400s, 2 mile cool down.

Can't believe how hard this was..

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8 miles along the bay in Tampa, FL.  Steady decreasing pace run from 7 min mile to 5:10 and then one mile 7 pace to cool down

 

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21 miles along Legacy trail and into Ogden.  Cold day and again, not enough water!  6:53 pace

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8 miles in morning in Denver between two flights.  So good to not be in the airport!

 

8 miles in Tampa at night

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5 miles on the gym treadmill this morning and then lifted with some friends.

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Started out on a Tempo run in Las Vegas this afternoon.  The traffic was crazy and I was being pretty careful.  At about 8 miles I got hit by truck.  It was a guy talking on his cell phone that pulled up to the sidewalk and slowed. As I passed around the front he suddenly gunned it to jump out into traffic between the cars.  I barely saw it out of the corner of my eye and was able to jump up enough so he hit me hard on the hip and I rolled over the top and behind the truck.  I lay there on the road and couldn't believe how lucky I was.  The driver was bawling but still wouldn't get out of his truck and some lady in another car was screaming at 911 on her cell phone.  But when I picked myself up aside from road rash all over I felt fine so I took off running again since I had a flight to do back to Denver in two hours.  When I walked in the lobby of the hotel the concierge just freaked out with all the blood and talked me into going to the hospital so I got removed from my trip a day early and spent the evening in a Vegas hospital.  Still can't believe how lucky I was!  Everyone be careful out there with cell phones, texting and busy people!

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10 easy miles in Honeyville..Just glad to be able to run!

5 easy at night

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Race: Running with the Leopards (3.2 Miles) 00:15:36, Place overall: 5, Place in age division: 1
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Leopards 5K in Salt Lake.  I barely made it up to the starting line in time because I was trying to get a warm up in this morning.  But a very fun course!  I took about 4 Motrins before the race hoping to deaden out the accident from Thursday and thankfully didn't even feel it!  Since some of the race was downhill I ran in my "Fat Man" shoes, Assics Gel Kayanos.  First time I ran a 5K in shoes that heavy but I didn't want to hit downhills today in flats.  The first mile went pretty fast, I was stuck in a large group of people I was trying to get around though.  I knew I had to try and catch Rob who I knew would be running somewhere around a 5 minute pace, but I never saw him.  I tried to catch the 4 guys ahead but they took off on the last mile and left me.

Mile 1      5:01

Mile 2      5:03

Mile 3      4:56

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Beautiful run out in Nibley.  I had to do a tempo run tonight but still worried about the hit on my hip and running a downhill race Saturday.  Also I can't figure out how to marathon train through this week with a half marathon Saturday and the next as well.  I have to do a long run in the morning and don't think I can recover by Sat! 

Great church meetings today in a new ward and I'm going to love it.  The girls and I had a great weekend.  I started out my run tonight and ran for a mile with a road biker who slowed down enough to talk to me for a mile or so.  He made me laugh when he said I had the funniest stride he'd ever seen because that's what my high school track coach had told me.  It reminded me of the afternoon at the Nationals when my coach said he didn't think I had a lick of talent, I was just missing the part of my brain that registered pain..

10 miles @ 1:02.  Just a bit slower than pace.

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16 miles in Denver.  This one killed me!  I don't know why..

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8 miles on the treadmill

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10 very easy miles.  Still pretty stiff this week

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