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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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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
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
Mon, Mar 23, 2015
Total Distance
4.25

4 and a quarter at Noon at the Y. 48 outside and overcast which was perfect conditions. Sure wish I could ever run a marathon in these temps. I went a bit fast the first couple miles, but I felt good. Nice to recover so quickly from the Friday death walk.

Had a great weekend with my wife down in West Yellowstone. The park is closed for a month but the cross country ski area in West is still open so we enjoyed that Saturday morning then went for a walk down the road in Yellowstone for a mile or so. She forgot her running shoes and the Dansko clogs gave her a blister after a mile. Bummer. Sunday we drove through the Gardiner entrance all the way to the Cooke City entrance and back. Saw elk, mountain sheep, and a wolf along the way. No bears or moose and no baby buffalo yet either. They are cute.

Brooks Adrenaline 15 Miles: 4.25
Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Kam on Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 14:12:31 from 68.66.163.179

Speaking of cute buffalo, have you ever read Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli? It's a kids book about a homeless boy who lives in the buffalo enclosure at a city park.

From Jake K on Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 09:20:29 from 159.212.71.25

That sounds really awesome. I've been really wanted to get up to Yellowstone in "pre" season when there are lots of animals and no people. Doing it on skis sounds like the way.

From Russ on Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 09:33:11 from 70.208.20.71

Sadly there's very little snow in the park right now, so our cross country skiing was limited to groomed trails outside the park, in the town of West. All the animals were seen in 51-55 degree weather while driving our gas guzzling suburban on the one stretch of pavement that's kept open during the winter: North entrance to the North East entrance. Some year I need to come when it's actually winter and ski through certain parts. That would be amazing. The West entrance opens to cars April 18th this year and when we drove through in April a couple years ago the buffalo had just dropped their calves and they ran along the roadway with us. Really cute and few people. We saw a grizzly that year which was amazing.

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