Just Mostly Dead at Mile 11, Not All Dead.

Between miles 5 and 7, and before acute neuromuscular failure kicked in, I felt a strong urge to run The Top of Utah Marathon on September 19. I figured if I really trained and pushed my self I might have a chance of breaking 4 hours...or maybe not. My PR is at 4:07 but I had Ben pacing me. I'll have to check on airfare before I can know for sure. 

What got me going at the end of my run? A nice downhill stretch along with Chris Isaak's cover of I Want You To Want Me. Time for some Powerade and banana bread.

 

Potential Marathon List

I'd like to be running the Ogden Marathon or the Berryman Trail Marathon this Saturday but neither work out so limiting my self to marathons that are within driving distance from Charleston or could be part of a trip to Utah and are not on Sunday, here's my list of what I'm looking at for the rest of the year. 

• Traverse City Marathon, Traverse City, MI. May 23: Looks like a good one but I'm not ready.
  
• Sunburst Marathon, South Bend, IN. June 6: Potentially hot and boring. Probably won't be ready for it either. We'll see.
  
• Bear Lake Marathon, Garden City, UT or Utah Valley Marathon, Provo UT. June 13: Not good time for work, church, etc. so I'll leave Bear Lake to the cisco fish Utah Valley to the Mormon purist who wouldn't approve of my pre- during- and post- consumption of Dr. Pepper. There's also the Marathon to Marathon marathon in Marathon, IA., great name but it's too far a drive, and the Maryville Marathon, Maryville, MO ditto on the drive.
  
• Deseret News Marathon, Salt Lake City, UT. July 24th: Are you kidding me?
  
• Grand Island Trail Marathon in Munising, MI, July 25th. This one might be well worth the drive but it's sold out already for this year.
• Fallsburg Marathon, Lowell, MI. August, 15. Maybe, maybe...I love that registration checks are to be made out to "Old Farts Running Club"
• Mesa Falls Marathon, Ashton, ID or Park City Marathon, August 22. Ben and Courtney will be visiting Illinois that week! Would love to do Mesa Falls some year, however.
  
• Top of Utah Marathon, Logan, UT or Air Force Marathon, Dayton, OH. September 19. I likely will run one of these depending on air fare, etc. 
• If it were closer, I'd definitely run the Baltimore Marathon, on October, 10.
• Indianapolis Marathon, Lawrence, IN. October 17. Been there. Done that. Not repeat-worthy.
• Monumental Marathon, Indianapolis, IN. November 7. Maybe but not likely since it's so close to Tecumseh. I'm not Bill, after all.
• Tecumseh Trail Marathon, Bloomington, IN. December 5. Of course. It's a tradition.  

Any other suggestions?

May 9th's run

I ran my own 10k today rather the half-marathon that SBLHC sponsored. Upon completion I was congratulated by Lance Armstrong (via Nike+ system) for completing a strong run and burning a lot of calories. Thanks, Lance.

Here's one of the random thoughts that popped into my head while running: I'd rather run Saturday mornings and hopefully live a longer life than drive around town shopping garage sales to live a life surrounded by more junk.

Go Cubs!

Three of the cutest Cub fans ever!

Go Cubs Go!

Saturday morning run - May 2nd

8:00 Helped Dave B move a few things to his new apartment.

9:30 Visited Darryl G in the hospital.

11:00 Went for a run. The graph is a very distorted. The slowdowns are hills and/or old age. Still thinking about another marathon before summer. 

More wedding photos

Some of the images from Ben and Courtney's reception on April 24, 2009. Thanks again to Paige and Lorin for the pictures.

Paige, Erin and Molly at the Logan temple.

Polly showing off her dress

Paige with Bruce 

Lorin holding Bruce

Beautiful ladies

Polly with Salt Lake City temple in background

Ben and Courtney

Polly and Courtney