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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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Nice run on the Logan River Trail with the kids on their bikes.  We have had kind of a dead spot for six months of running together since they grew too big for the double running stroller.  Now finally they are fast enough on bikes to keep up.  I'm looking forward to a year of them going with me.

 On a non-running note, someone has been egging cars and houses along our neighborhood for a month now.  It's taken me several hours if scrubbing a few times and left permanent marks on things.  Basically as soon as you clean them off they do it again.  Anyhow, I installed motion activated infared cameras this weekend and lo and behold it's one of the neighbor's 21 year old son and his friends.  One of those can't move out of the house kind of kids.  The Officer taking the report says this vandalism charge would go on his permanent record so I should think twice about pressing charges.  Been thinking this through today...

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Currently making today's training report as I sit in a line of aircraft waiting for deice in Denver.  I'm number 12, three hours so far.  Today will be a goose egg for training.

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Ran 8 easy in Arizona this morning on a trail I love, then ran 4 during a two hour break in Denver, and 9 tonight in Atlanta.  Nice runs, taking it easy after a race weekend.

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I got home tonight at 11:45 and immediately headed out for a midnight run.  It's been a busy work week and I knew it would just mean fitting it in when I could.  Kind of neat running at night for a change.  6 miles @ 6:37 average.

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First outdoor track workout of the year!  Hurt like hell.  But fun running on USUs track again after so long.  3 mile plus warm up. 8X200, 8X400, 4X800, 100m walk in between reps.  3 mile cool down.

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Busy day organizing the PTA Walkathon for the kids school.  I set up a large circle in the field which 10 laps was a mile and the kids spent their lunch hours running around it while the volunteers counted laps.  It was surprising how much the kids loved it and it raised a good amount of money for the school.  Fun afternoon.  Pretty sore today for my workout.  This week I have been focusing on more quality in the running and not as much quantity.  It's amazing how out of shape I am right now.

Continuous run with some mile repeats at 6 min target.  2 mile easy, 4x1 mile @ 5:57 average pace, 1 mile at 7:30 after each one.  

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I was going to help Walter pace the 30k this morning but my girls got sick and I ended up being stuck at home on a perfect race morning.  About noon I was able to get out for my long run finally.  Today was a flat, little faster pace, distance run and it felt great until about 17.  Then I had to work, just not used to running long at anything resembling a running pace.  7:03 average pace.

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