| 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. Favorite Blogs: |
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| Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | 30.90 | 18.30 | 0.00 | 3.30 | 52.50 |
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| Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | 5.30 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.30 | 8.60 |
| Hill repeat Monday. 6 people showed this week. All of my repeats were sub 10 minute pace, not bad for this hill. The last two I went anearobic the last .2 I think. All I know is the last two hurt. Kind of nice today. With the iffy weather very few mountain bikes were out. 1572' gain. http://connect.garmin.com/activity/34479556 | Comments(1) |
| Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | 19.60 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 19.60 |
| Ran into work and back today. I felt pretty good on the run in, a little tired but strong. Only had to yell profanities at two cars. One of these days that's going to get me in trouble. The run howm was a little more tiring. I would have gone just over 20 miles total but some hot babe in a Mercedes honked at me when I was about a half mile from home, so I got in. Good thing it was my wife. | Add Comment |
| Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| A few trail miles in the evening north of Rainbow Garden. Sprinkled on us. I'm so tired of the cold wet spring here in Utah. I want some warm 80+ weather. Oh, and sunshine would be nice too. Supposed to be a great, tough, beautiful ccourse. Lots of huge names in the ultra world will be there. | Comments(2) |
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Pocatello 50 Mile (18.3 Miles) 04:17:00 | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 18.30 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 18.30 |
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Holy cow! What a day. Race started promptly at 6am in a light rain and temps around 40. The first few miles were uphill followed by some super sweet single track thru the forest and along side the mountains. Cruising along with a small group at about a 9 minute pace was too much fun. Even though I was wet, I wasn't cold at all. Trail conditions were a little mudy in the first part but not too bad.....yet. It's when we started descending to the first aid station that the trail got really bad. Slippery mud everywhere. You couldn't avoid the stuff. It didn't help that the people in front of us had trashed the trail for those behind. Such is the life of a mid packer. After the first aid station we started climbing up toward Kinport Peak. I had been told that there was a 1 mile bushwack that was super steep. Well, the RD wasn't lying. The bushwack had us going from flag to flag. As we got higher, the wind got worse and the rain turned into a driving sleet. It didn't help that we were on an exposed ridge and the wind was reaching gale force. The sleet wwas falling heavier and heavier. Sleet hitting your face at 40mph hurts, alot. I thought I would get really cold going up thru this but amazingly didn't. I was in shorts, a long sleeve t, short sleeve t, beanie, winter gloves, and my cheap rain jacket. The only thing that really got cold on me was my hands. With the gloves soaked and the wind hitting them, pretty soon I couldn't feel my fingers and I was really worried about frostbite. As a few of us were climbing together, we came across a runner that had started back down. He was going hypothermic because he wasn't dressed t-for the conditions. He had no hat, no gloves, wearing Vibrams, shorts and a short sleeve t. Luckily, some of us other runners had some extra clothes adn we got him dresssed. I gave him a rain shell with a hood that I had in my pack, somebody else had extra gloves. Meanwhile, we kept climbing. It seemed like forever until we reached the top but it was really only about half an hour. The conditions as we neared the top were near whiteout, we couldn'tt see from course ribbon to course ribbon. Wiuth the wind driving from the left, we had a tendency to drift right. This meant that we missed the course markings as they went left. finally at the top a group us realized that wee were essentially lost. We started down a 4 x 4 road because we saw footprints in the snow. After about a 1/4 mile of that we met the group in front of us. They had lost the course markings too. One of the group was familiar with the course and eventually we were able to find the course and start back down the other side of the mountain. This part of the course was on a 4 x 4 road, so following the route was easy. As we got back down below the snow line, things warmed up some adn we were able to make some good time. I forgot to mention that while we were on top in the blizzard, we did stick together and made sure the guy that was going hypothermic made it down safely.
I had decided after that little jaunt on the mountain that I was dropping at the next aid station. I knew that we were going right back u that hill and wanted no part of that. Just way too dangerous. It was a search and rescue operation waiting to happen. As it so happened, at that point the race directors made the decision to pull the plug and halt the race. So now the race became one of making sure everyone was accounted for and safe. Meanwhile, I caught a ride back tot he start/finish and got into some dry warm clothes. As people were starting to trickle in a few of use decided that we needed to get some food going. The plan was to have chili for everyone post race, but the people in charge of that were nowhere to be found. So we got the chili going, got out the rest of the food and started feeding cold, wet hungry runners.
the RD's definitely made the right decision to halt the race. Conditions on the mountain tops were horrendous at best. We later heard that Scout Peak, the high point of the course, had 6" of fresh snow. Ultrarunners love a difficult, demanding course, we're masochistic that way, but we don't want a course where the chance of death is a real possibility.
So, kind of disapointed that I didn't get to finish, but certainly understandable. I'll be back next year, the course looks like it would be stunning in good weather.
Here's a link to a short article in the Pocatello paper about the race.
http://www.journalnet.com/sports/local/article_f3711a2a-6ba5-11df-a0b4-001cc4c03286.html | Add Comment |
| Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | 30.90 | 18.30 | 0.00 | 3.30 | 52.50 |
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