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Location:

Orem,UT,USA

Member Since:

Apr 03, 2006

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Age Division Winner

Running Accomplishments:

HS/COLLEGE:
mile: 4:56, 2 mile: 10:21 (1978)
marathon: 2:52 (St. George 1982)
OLD MAN (20+ years later):
5K: 19:53 (Nestle/Art City Days 5K 2007)
10K: 39:55 (Spectrum 10K 2008)
half marathon: 1:26 (Hobble Creek 2008)
marathon: 3:07 (St. George 2007)

Short-Term Running Goals:

Get back to a BQ marathon time (currently 3:40).

Long-Term Running Goals:

Have fun running, keep fit, and fight middle age spread. Run consistently and injury free. Maintain a healthy balance between running and other life priorities. Encourage my ever-aging running buddies to keep running so we can continue to share runs on the trail instead of rocking chairs.

Personal:

Blessed to be married to Karen for 30 years. We have six children (4 daughters/2 sons) ages 16 to 30, and one wonderful granddaughter.

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Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	0.00
Altra Instinct 1.5 Lifetime Miles:						83.50
Altra Lone Peak 1.5 Lifetime Miles:						21.80
Saucony Guide 7 Blue 2 Lifetime Miles:						376.95
Saucony Fastwitch 6 Lifetime Miles:						200.05
Saucony Guide 7 Black 1 Lifetime Miles:						271.15

Tue, Feb 12, 2008

Easy Miles	Threshold Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Track speed mileage	Hill mileage	Total
6.10	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	6.10

I ran solo this morning, easy 6.1 miles, average pace 8:42. It seems that building up my mileage while not aggravating the Achilles and PF is going to be a little tricky. The Achilles felt fine this morning, but the PF that hasn't bothered me for a while was back a little this morning. I'm icing it now I really think new shoes will help, too. I went to buy some last week at MVP Sports in SF but my size was out of stock on the two styles I was interested in. If I have time at lunch today I may go to Runner's Corner and try out a few different styles.

Comments

From Clay on Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:05:04

PT, Bruce at MVP is really good about ordering your size in and he can have them in less than week, usually... That is what I have to do when they don't have my size, just a thought.

From Paul T on Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 20:19:49

I don't mind ordering shoes when I know what I want, but I wanted to test drive some new models. I ended up going to Runner's Corner and got some great service. After test driving some Mizuno, Brooks, and Saucony I decided to buy the Saucony Trigons. From what I understand, they are the trainer equivalent of the Saucony Tangent, which is my favorite racing shoe but not durable enough for training. After all the service they gave me I felt I owed it to Hawk to buy the shoes there.

On a related note, I called the St. George Running Center and ordered a couple of Fast Running Blog tees (I'm not much of a singlet guy). They offer a 15% discount to FRB members, and free shipping on shoes, so I may consider using them when I know what I want...to support the FRB.

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