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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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Flew into Salt Lake last night and hung out at the hotel instead of driving home to Logan since the whole day was family activities in Salt Lake for Memorial day.  I got at least 4 hours of sleep before I headed up for an early run with Rob Murphy up City Creek.  He wanted to go 12 miles which was nuts since we ran a marathon a week ago but I trust his judgement since he is so old.

It ended up being a perfect run and pretty weird to run into the snowline 6 miles up.  It is also so much nicer to do distance runs with some company!  On the way back down I could definetly feel the effect of the marathon in the legs.  It's time to start the training back up and I pretty much don't know which races to run the next few months!

Right now I'm sitting in the plane typing on the laptop, getting ready for a six hour flight to Fairbanks.  It's only two more weeks until we have WiFi on the planes and a whole new dimension of inflight entertainment opens up.  We also got Toblerone chocolate in the cabin, which is pretty much as good as life can get.

 

 

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Comments
From Rob Murphy on Mon, May 30, 2011 at 23:36:53 from 24.10.248.6

Ha! To all of that.Can you be surfing the internet and hit the autopilot button at the same time?

Let's not forget that I took four full days off after the marathon instead of running five the next day.

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