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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

Fri, Feb 01, 2008

Easy Miles	Threshold Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Track speed mileage	Hill mileage	Total
3.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	3.00

The kids were out of school today so I didn't have to be home at 7:00am for the normal school morning routine. I decided to go play basketball in the morning with my old buddies. I've been playing with some of those guys for over 15 years, but since I got serious about running again I only make it there occasionally now. My 21 year old son has been playing with them for a number of years, too. He's the regular and I'm the visitor now.

There were only 7 this morning, but three of them (plus me) were old timers and it was really good to see them again. One was Greg. He and I have been playing basketball together since high school. All this basketball probably isn't good for my Achilles tendon, but I sure had a lot of fun this morning.

Comments

From Tom on Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 16:10:24

Hey Paul just wanted to say Kim and I had a great time last night at dinner! We'll definitely have to do it again sometime.

Hope the achilles is happy and you were able to have nice run this morning with your buddies.

From Paul T on Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 21:15:55

Karen and I had a good time, too. We're already looking forward to the next time.

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