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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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Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	0.00

Sun, Mar 30, 2008

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
18.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	18.00

My fellow ultrarunning friend Meghan and I had been planning on running today for the past couple of weeks. With the snow falling, I was going to tank the run and not go, but she told me to get my butt in gear. We met at the main gate to Antelope Island, drove out and ran a couple different trails. The Lakeside trail around the north end of the island is always a good time. Fairly flat but very technical in areas. If you don't pay attention to foot placement, you'll end up on your face hurting. The other trail we ran is out White Rock and then the Split Rock loop. Snow was sticking to the ground up on the bench, but down lower it wasn't. Pretty muddy in spots, but all in all a good time. It felt good to get out and do a nice long run in some icky weather and get muddy. Conversation was pretty good too.

Comments

From Benn on Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 08:59:40

Woot. Glad you got in a fun run :) Spring is finally here! I can't wait to get out there on the trails and roads too! When's the next race?

From Jim on Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 10:51:34

Hey Benn,

I wish spring was here. It should be in the 50's and 60's here by this time of year, but our high yesterday was 35. Kinda sucks. I won't be able to get up into the mountains to any degree until June at the earliest. I'll be able to hit the south facing slopes but anything else will require snowshoes or microspikes to cross the snow fields. Probably a fair amount of avalanche debris fields to cross as well. My next race will be the Bonneville shoreline trail marathon on 4/19. This is a fun run (free) put on every year that has us running some of the trails above Salt Lake City. Always a good time with beer and food at the end of the race in the RD's driveway. It's the same day as the Salt Lake City marathon. Let's see, I could pay $80 to run the city streets of SLC, or pay nothing to run Bonneville and trails. It's an no brainer there. My next real race is a half this Saturday. It's a tuneup race for the Ogden Mrathon in May. Not expecting to do well since my training has been kind of lackluster to date.

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