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Location:

West Jordan,UT,USA

Member Since:

Apr 25, 2009

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

I will try to reconstruct my marathon/ultra history:

1. Salt Lake City Pioneer Day Marathon 24 July 1996
2. St. George Marathon 4 Oct 2003 (5:09)
3. Los Angeles Marathon 19 Mar 2006 (5:35)
4. Salt Lake City Marathon 3 Jun 2006 (5:12)
5. San Francisco, CA Marathon 30 Jul 2006
6. Long Beach, CA Marathon 15 Oct 2006 (5:02)
7. 24-Hour Moab, UT Ultra ?2006
8. Goblin Valley, UT 50K ?1 Nov 2006
9. Catalina Island, CA 40 Miles Jan 2007
10. Big Sur, CA 29 Apr 2007 (5:48)
11. Vancouver, Canada Marathon 4 May 2008 (5:20) - Got married later in the day!
12. Red Mountain, UT 50K 24 May 2008 (7:25)
13. Ogden, UT Marathon 16 May 2009 (5:45)

I ran several unofficial runs now including:
Top of Utah marathon with brother George this summer (2009, Ogden, Utah), Park City Marathon with my friend Leslie this summer, and a 50-miler along the west coastline of LA with Ernie roller blading, and about 34 miles with Ernie around Palos Verdes Pennisula in Los Angles. Next week we are going to try to Pony Express 50-miler (Utah) and perhaps in the spring the St. George, Utah 50-K.


Short-Term Running Goals:

Keep off the 10 pounds I lost over the summer, try to keep up 50 miles a week on various runs, and eventually to loose another 10 pounds within the next year (from 160 to the 149/150 range).

Long-Term Running Goals:

Regular exercize to keep my mood and health at optimum levels of functioning. I want to live a long, happy life!

Personal:

Married (husband: Ernie Horstmanshoff), three step-children, two grandchildren

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Beautiful run along the "Steamboat Canal" southwest Reno. I was amazed to see two types of Milkweed: the climbing milkweed (Saracostemma) and the desert milkweed (Asclepias). The second type was obviously milkweed to me but the former were not obviously milkweed. When I looked close at both types of flowers, I realized they were almost the same and so it was fun when I came home and looked them up to see they were related. Also was fascinated to find that a willow had the same kind of "pine-cone" growth that I had noticed earlier in the week in Elko on a Utah Juniper. As I looked up this I discovered that both the willow and the juniper are attacked by a tiny insect called a gall gnatt or gall midge from the family Cecidomyiidae. The insect injects an egg into the end of the branch and it emits a growth substance which creates abnormal growth, keeping the branch from growing out but the leaves then turn into little cone-like structures. It is so cool the way both the willow and the juniper have these little "pine-cones" on the end of the branches.

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