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Location:

Marriott Slaterville,UT,

Member Since:

Mar 08, 2006

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

Let's see, Finally ran Boston 2004. Broke 100 miles for 24 hours in 2005.  Finished the Wasatch 100 three times now.  4th place in the Across the Years 24 hour race 2007/2008

PR's:

5K - 21:03 (a long time ago), around 23:00 currently

10K - 44:??

1/2 marathon - 1:36

Marathon 3:21

50K - 5:05

50 mile - 8:59

100K - 11:37

100 mile - 22:18

24 hour - 106.65 miles

72 hours - 167.77 miles

2006 Wasatch 100 34:23

2008 Wasatch 100 32:22

2009 Wasatch 100 33:57

2009 2nd place 50-54 age group Striders Winter Training Series

Short-Term Running Goals:

Direct a successful Antelope Island Buffalo run in March 2011, Mountain View Trail Half Marathon in October, and the Antelope Island 50K/100K in November. 

Tenative 2011 race and run schedule - Bonneville Shoreline Trail Marathon, Grandeur Peak fun run, Timp Trail Marathon, Pocatello 50 mile, Western States 100 mile, Vermont 100 mile, Leadville 100 mile, Wasatch 100 mile (yep, trying for the grand slam of ultrarunning), Striders Winter training series, Moab Red Hot 50K, Red Mountain 50K, Survivor Series 10K (Rockford, IL), Grand Canyon Double crossing, Zion traverse, Boise Half Ironman (my first tri).  Might Run the Ogden Valley 50 mile, the Pony Express 50 mile and maybe the Chimera 100 in November.  I'm a memeber of the Wasatch Speedgoat Mountain Racing Team (www.wasatchspeedgoat.com).  One of my major goals is to not embarass the team with poor finishes.

Long-Term Running Goals:

Stay injury free and still be able to outrun kids half my age.  Stay fit enough to keep up with my grandson.

Personal:

52, married for 30 years to the same wonderful woman, 2 grown kids, 1 grandson.

That's my son and I in the picture at the 2007 Buffalo Run.  He's always a big help and a pretty cool kid.

I direct the Antelope Island Buffalo Run, the Mountain View Trail Half Marathon, and the Antelope Island 50K/100K, all on Antelope Island State Park.  The website is www.buffalorun.org

Come on out and run it, we have a good time.

I post some of my more interesting runs at my blog www.ultrajim.blogspot.com.  Check it out.

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152.0045.503.800.00201.30
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.900.000.000.005.90

EZ lunch run

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Race: Striders Winter Trianing Series Half Marathon (13.1 Miles) 01:50:04, Place overall: 122, Place in age division: 8
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
0.0013.100.000.0013.10

Race didn't start out too bad.  Sub 7:30 for the first few miles, but ny mile 9 I could feel my turnover slowing down and there was nothing I could do about it.  By the time I crossed the finish line I was down to around a 9:30 pace.  Oh well, good enough for 8th in my age group and 122 overall.  Not my best finish but I did move up in the age group standings to 4th.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.000.000.000.004.00

Easy recovery run on the mill

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
0.005.900.000.005.90

lunch time run with Aric.  I must be getting old or he's getting faster because I have a hard time keeping up.  Probably both.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
2.000.000.000.002.00

Had big plans to do intervals on the 'mill.  Got a couple miles in and decided to listen to my body and quit.  Good decision I think although I felt a little guilty about it.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.800.000.000.005.80

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
15.600.000.000.0015.60

ran to work this morning.  No exciting things happened, which is a good thing. 

Ended up working late so just ran up to the train station and had my lovely wife pick me up on the other end.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
21.000.000.000.0021.00

Ran most of the BSTM above Salt Lake.  Good time as usual with all sorts of friends.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.000.000.000.005.00

On the mill after work.  sigh

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
3.600.001.600.005.20

Did three hill repeats on the trail.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
47.000.000.000.0047.00

Ok, this was a granddaddy run.  The third time I've done a rim to rim to rim in the Grand Canyon.  Took 18 hours.  Slower than I had hoped and certainly nopt my fastest time, but you know, it was still a good time.  Went with a couple of fellow ultrarunners, Brian Becksteda and Tara Tulley.  Neither had done this run before although Brian has done a couple of single crossings.  Started about 4am.  Three hours to the river.  We just took our time, took pictures etc.  Took a break at the Phantom Ranch, then headed out for the north rim.  The run up Kiabab canyon is an awesome one.  Right next to the creek for about 8 miles.  Took a short break at Cottonwood campground,  then started out again.  The trail turns up into a side canyon at the caretaker house and a couple miles after that is Roaring Springs.  This is indeed an awesome sight.  Water gushing out of the side of the cliff, and not just a little bit.  The trail here really starts to climb up towards the north rim.  Steeper and not as runnable.  When we were about 3 miles from the top, we encoutered snow, and lots of it. There was 4'-5' of it at the north rim trailhead.  Pretty much the last mile was done on snow.

Got to the north rim at about 1:15, so about 8:45 for a time.  I left the north rim at 1:30 with the goal of running as much of the downhill to the Phantom Ranch (13.6 miles away) as I could.  Took me 4 hours to go those miles.  Once you get to the caretaker house the trial becomes a cruiser.  Just the right angle for good effortless downhill running.  passed lots of backpackers on the way down.

Got to the rach about 5:30 and left with Brian at 6pm.  The goal was back up to the south rim in 4 hours or less.  This is a little more than 9 miles with 4800' of gain.  We were tired so making it in that time was going to be tough.  We got to Indian Garden in 2 hours pretty easily.  That's about half way up.  Once you leave Indian Garden, the trail gets steeper and we get tireder.  Still, we managed to do the last 4.5 miles in 2 hours, arriving at the south rim right at 10pm.  Tara got up to the top a couple hours later.

We had a great time.  I definitely recommend this run for any ultrarunner.  We saw a bunch of R2R2R runners on our trek, including quite a few from the SLC area that I know.  Everyone was having a good time.

The weather was perfect for it for me.  About 30 at the start and in the low 80's down at the Phantom Ranch.  Felt like the low 60's at the north rim.  It was defintely cool by the time we got back to the top, probably in the low 40's.

Fun, fun, fun and ready to do it again.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.900.000.000.005.90

So I ran today for the first time since doing my GC run.  Nice and easy at lunch

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.200.000.000.005.20

Did a few hill repeats on the trail.  Didn't have time for a full workout.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.501.500.000.006.00

Earth Day trail run with friends.  Pushed really hard for about 1.5 miles because I felt good.  Lots of fun but a little cool.

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Race: Striders 30k (18.3 Miles) 02:38:03, Place overall: 51, Place in age division: 2
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
0.0018.300.000.0018.30

Nice day for a race.  Not too bad.  Not as fast as I would have liked, but the good thing  is I scored 2nd in my age group (50-54) and 2nd in my age group for the series.  Hardware is always a good thing.  At my age it isn't about the speed, it's about attrition.  I just outlasted the others in my age group.

Here's the splits:

Mile 1 - 8:18

Mile 2 - 8:03

Mile 3 - 8:12

Mile 4 - 8:16

Mile 5 - 8:11

Mile 6 - 8:27

Mile 7 - 8:23

Mile 8 - 8:35

Mile 9 - 8:45

Mile 10 - 8:32

Mile 11 - 8:13

Mile 12 - 8:18

Mile 13 - 8:27

Mile 14 - 8:22

Mile 15 - 9:06

Mile 16 - 8:40

Mile 17 - 8:56

Mile 18 - 8:44

Finish - 2:38:03

Fairly consistent thru the race except for mile 15.  I took a short walk break.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.200.002.200.006.40

Did some hill repeats with Joel on the BST south of Taylor canyon.  Only had time for four of them.  Really wanted to do about 6 or so.  Oh well.  Very busy with mountain bikers and hikers.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
15.600.000.000.0015.60

Ran into work this morning.  Started out great, then after about the half way point i started slowing down.  Maybe still feeling the aftereffects of the race on Saturday plus hills last night?  Maybe my body is just getting old while my mind still thinks I'm 25.  Still, I'm on track to reach my goal of 2500 miles for the year.  In fact, I've run more miles so far this year than in any previous year.  Crossing my fingers that I don;t get injured.  Found out the uber ultrarunner Karl Meltzer broke his arm bad enough to require surgery last Saturday while running the Zane Grey 50 mile in AZ.  From what I understand he was climbing over a tree that had fallen across the trail.  Bummer.  Kinda screws his racing season all up.

So the run home was kind of windy. Ran up to the train station then called my wife to pick me up in Ogden.  The legs were like lead and I figured I needed some rest.

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Three of us met at Rainbow Garden and took the BST north.  I really dislike the first mile since it's all uphill and gains about 400'.  It just didn't feel right last night.  Still, I gutted it out and made it up.  Once we got on the trail above the canal road things got better.  I was able to push the uphills and run at a pretty good clip on the downhills.  Met up with Tom at the turn and he ran back with us.  I was feeling really good now and led out with a pretty good pace.  Ran the entire distance back to the parking lot.  Something I've never been able to do before.  I usually end up walking a couple of the steeper sections.  Things just seemed to click on the way back and I felt really good.  Great run with some good friends.  Not much talking, just a train of four guys and a couple of dogs doing some good miles.  Can't beat it.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.700.000.000.006.70

Ran south of 22nd street on the BST.  Got sleeted on big time.  That's just wrong when it's at the end of April.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
152.0045.503.800.00201.30
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