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Location:

Billings,MT,

Member Since:

Jan 10, 2011

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

~~Longest Ultra: Bighorn Trail Run: 12:19:00, 52 miles, Bighorn Mountains, WY, June 20, 2015

50K: Bighorn Trail Run: 5:52:13, 32 miles, Bighorn Mountains, WY, June 15, 2013

Marathon: 3:25:01, Deseret News Marathon, SLC, UT, July 24, 2013

Half-Marathon: 1:37:00 (downhill), Deseret News Marathon Split, SLC, UT, July 24, 2013

10K: 44:07, Big Sky State Games, Billings, MT, July 2012

5K: 20:25, Big Sky State Games, Billings, MT, July 2013

Short-Term Running Goals:

Get back into running shape.

Long-Term Running Goals:

Not get super fat, and qualify for Boston before I'm 50 (April 2023).

Personal:

Started running seriously in March 2010. Married 22 years to a hot momma and we have 3 boys, 1 sweet girl, 2 dogs, 3 2 0 1 cat, and 6     4 5 6 3 5 3 1 2 0 chickens (until Spring 2019 when we'll start over). As of September 2018 I'm looking for work... yay. I'm on the local School Board.

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Adrenaline 18 Lifetime Miles: 424.24
Cascadia 12 Lifetime Miles: 396.50
Adrenaline 18 #2 Lifetime Miles: 64.00
Altra Lifetime Miles: 50.50
Brooks 20 Lifetime Miles: 50.00
Cascadia Green/orange Lifetime Miles: 223.00
Total Distance
26.00
Brooks Adrenaline 15 Miles: 4.00Cascadia 10 Pt2 Miles: 22.00
Weight: 0.00
Total Distance
4.00

4 miles at lunch time from the Y. It was a cooler day so only 71F. Too bad I didn't wait until the thunderstorm blew through town as the temps dipped to 54F at 4:30 pm! Craziness. Sometimes I like the Canadian weather influence, and today was one of those days.

5 weeks after my 52 miler and I still haven't logged 52 miles since then. Not sure I'll make it to the 50 mile mark this month but I'll try. I'm lacking motivation and fresh legs. Need a race in my future.

Brooks Adrenaline 15 Miles: 4.00
Weight: 0.00
Comments(4)
Total Distance
6.00

Windy outside today (33 mph gusts) so I decided to hit the TM at the Y during lunch. Decent run, I'm accepting the fact that my legs are in recovery mode and may be for a while so I walked a couple times and didn't feel bad about it. Ran at 6 mph for most of the first mile, then varied between 7.0 and 7.6. Did it all while watching Longmire. Definitely worth watching on Netflix. Thankfully the wifi mostly worked and it only timed out twice. Now that's a good day.

Cascadia 10 Pt2 Miles: 6.00
Weight: 0.00
Comments(2)
Total Distance
4.00

4 TM miles at the Y during lunch. I needed to finish the last episode of season 2 for Longmire. Very interesting ending. Too bad there's only one more season to go. The run wasn't fantastic but wasn't horrible. Warmed up at 6.0, then tried to go straight to 7.0 but had to back off as that was too quick. Walked for a stretch at mile 3 then decided to pack it in after 4 miles. I'd planned 6 but I figured I'd save something for tomorrow.

Yesterday we went to Yellowstone for my youngest son's 12 birthday and it was a banner day. Saw Old Faithful, a mud pot or two, swam in the Firehole River (way fun), and were then treated to seeing a mama Grizzly and her two cubs. Granted, they were a looong ways off, but thankfully I brought my spotting scope and that gave us good views.

Cascadia 10 Pt2 Miles: 4.00
Weight: 0.00
Comments(1)
Total Distance
6.00

6 TM miles during lunch while it was hot outside. And besides, I wanted to watch another episode of Longmire. 

Cascadia 10 Pt2 Miles: 6.00
Weight: 0.00
Comments(1)
Total Distance
6.00

Drove 2 hours to the mountains to perform a wedding, then changed in the Suburban and ran 6 miles on one of my favorite mountain trails which I've never run before. I've hiked it, backpacked it, snowshoed it, cross-country skiied it, but never run it until today. I didn't have time to do more, but I don't have the legs for more right now and it's very very frustrating. Hard to enjoy the sport I love when I don't enjoy it right now. Argh.

Beautiful trail, though, and even though the weather was pretty warm it was a great run. I wanted to jump in the river next to the trail but I didn't. Got done, cranked up the AC and drove back to Billings. Busy day afterwards, just getting to bed at 1 am. I kind of like these full days.

Cascadia 10 Pt2 Miles: 6.00
Weight: 0.00
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Total Distance
26.00
Brooks Adrenaline 15 Miles: 4.00Cascadia 10 Pt2 Miles: 22.00
Weight: 0.00
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