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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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48.50
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2.50

Did a nice walk with Ernie and Lela to 7800 South and back again.

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16.00

Ran with Lela down the Old Bingham Hwy to Bacchus Hwy and then north to 6800 North and back home again. 7:15pm-10:15pm 4 hrs.

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11.00

Hiked up the Hickman Bridge Trail and also up to Navaho Knobs. Did some running down. It was a lot of fun. Most of the trail we were the only ones up there since it is off season and weekday. It was fun hiking along the top of the "Reef" and later reading about the Navaho Sandstone from the Jurassic period and the Moniter Butte (Chinle Formation) from the Triassic periods (layers of sentiment which seem particularly distinctive). It is fun to realize how insignificant I am compared to all these eons... Looking forward to more running/hiking with Leslie this weekend.

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15.00

Ran the Grand Wash Trail, the Frying Pan Trail, and the Cohab Canyon trail at Capitol Reef. Unfortunately I didn't get back to the car until about 1/2 hour after dark and it caused a lot of worry for Ernie and Ron who were waiting for about 1 1/2 hours for me. It is really beautiful running up here because around each corner seems to be a new amazing view. It has been fun learning about the geological features and layers, etc. Hopefully Leslie will be up for some running tomorrow!

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4.00

Had a really fun hike with Leslie/Harold and Ernie. We hiked the Peek-a-boo/Spooky loop hike which is touted as one of the best slot canyons. With peer pressure fromm about five Utah Valley young adults, Leslie was pressured into overcoming her fears and go through with it. I'm not sure she would have done it without the encouragement. It was pretty amazing. Harold tore his shorts open. It was a pretty amazing memory I don't think any of us will ever forget. To get there we take the Hwy 12 to the Hole in the Rock Road through the Staircase National Park area.

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48.50
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