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Blue Moon New Years Eve 5k
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ESPN Game Day Nov 30
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St. George Marathon day after Race Oct. 5
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Dr. J’s Party Aug 31
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September 5, 2009
Preparation for St George Marathon continues with a 20 mile run up and down the slopes of Mt Lemmon.
Triple peaks today as seen below and then quiche at Le Buzz.


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June 6, 2009
In our time, surgery and medicine are closely allied disciplines. This was also true in ancient Greece and Rome. However, through the Renaissance and until the 18th century in Western Europe, surgery was considered more a trade than a profession, and surgeons had more to do with barbers than with physicians. Barber-surgeon guilds began appearing in England around the 13th century. In London, for example, trade guilds for barbers and surgeons can be traced at least to 1309. Our very own Dr. Z. continues this tradition 700 years later performing this elegant procedure on our latest half centenarian WJ at 4:45 a.m on the track.
Seven minutes before the procedure was completed, the rest of us started yet another loop at mature man’s pace only to be passed by the barber and patient 5 miles later. Amazing pace by Dr. Z and WJ breaking the 7 min/mi barrier by 2 sec. For those that have run the loop know what this means. If you can run 6:58 pace for the loop then minus 20 sec to get your marathon pace. In other words you can run much faster 26.2 miles than 16.2 loop miles. Conclusion: these guys can break 2:54 right now (6:38 pace) 4 months before St. George.

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Sat May 30


Despite having ran early saturday morning over 10 miles, my boys made a rare race appearance later in the evening. They continued the interlooper tradition of bringing hardware back to their trophy cabinets.
  
PLACE  TIME      NAME                CITY         DIVISION DivPL  AGE    PACE
20     17:53.5   Mark Koch          Tucson         M45-49    1    M49   05:45.5
21     18:00.4   Wayne Jewett       Tucson         M50-54    1    M50   05:47.7
22     18:05.7   Ramon Billy        Tucson         M35-39    5    M36   05:49.4
23     18:32.8   Dave Hill          Tucson         M55-59    1    M58   05:58.2
24     18:35.8   Peter Ziegler      Tucson         M40-44    2    M40   05:59.2
25     18:39.6   Paula Morrison     Tucson         F35-39    1    F35   06:00.4
26     18:43.7   Max Warneke        Tucson         M15-19    2    M16   06:01.7
27     18:45.7   Dirk Zavelberg     Tucson         M40-44    3    M40   06:02.3
28     18:46.7   TJ Curry           Greenville     M25-29    5    M27   06:02.6
29     18:50.0   Julius Martinez    Tucson         M40-44    4    M42   06:03.7
30     18:57.6   Joel Stamp         Tucson         M45-49    2    M48   06:06.2
31     19:00.7   Mark Bennett       Tucson         M15-19    3    M16   06:07.1
32     19:06.4   Steve Greenwell    Tucson         M45-49    3    M48   06:09.0
33     19:08.5   Brian Watson       Tucson         M35-39    6    M37   06:09.7
34     19:14.2   Kat Howard         Oro Valley     F15-19    1    F17   06:11.5
35     19:16.6   Alexander Mccrohan Tucson         M35-39    7    M37   06:12.3
36     19:17.9   Kevin Keller       Tucson         M15-19    4    M19   06:12.7
37     19:18.7   Matt Penn          Tucson         M40-44    5    M44   06:12.9

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Sat May 23

Manny’s early predictions for St George

Pete
2:47:57
76.8%
Wayne
2:50:50
82%
Steve
2:52:26
79.8%
Manny
2:53:56
82.4%
Ken
2:58:18
76.5%

Goals
wayne: break 2:50
wayne: age grade better than manny
manny: come within 6:13 of Pete (or 14 sec per mile)

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Sat, 9 May 2009 14:00
Pete Z wrote:

The question is no longer, “Can I run 50X400 on Thursday”. It is no longer, “Can I run Bart’s Loop two days later”. The question now is, “Can I survive a gaggle of 6 year old boys at Ben’s Birthday Party”???

Great Bart’s Loop today. Welcomed Frank Field to town for the event.
Come back Ken. Come back Manny. Come back Wayne. Come back Dan. Where’s Dave?

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Thu, 7 May 2009 15:06
Manny wrote:

Wayne nothing ridiculous about what you just did
  • How many runners in the world can do what you just did.
Few
  • How many 50 y.o can do what you just did.
Very few
  • How many 50 y.o can do what you just did and complete it before 6:00 AM.
Very very few
  • How many 50 y.o can do what you just did, complete it before 6:00 AM. and have 8 of their friends on the track in support
Only one
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Thu, 7 May 2009 13:43:
Wayne wrote:

You know Mannie, it occurs to me.  It is only because we have met you and come under your influence that we would even dare dream we could do something as "ridiculous" as this.

Thank you.   I am very proud to call you my friend and I'm Grateful for you in my life.
Thank you all for the wonderful turn-out this morning.  You all help me reach my goal: 50 X 400.

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Thu, 7 May 2009 9:00
Wayne wrote: 

05--07--09

The pace will be reported on by N' by.  I should think that as a group that "has no right" to be running like this, we represented ourselves very well.  Average well below the predicted 90 seconds.
 
Thanks again, I could not have asked for a more special way to start my Big day.
Currently, riding quite high.  A suspect a crash is eminent, what with the breakfast of:
 
Quart of Gatorade
Three GUs
Two Brownies
One piece of cheese cake

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Life I love you, All is Groovy!

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Art lovers caught in action around U of A campus

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Apr 25, 2009. Phone line then bagels then pole dancing
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Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:24
Emmanuel K. wrote: Wise decision Ken. Hope you feel better soon

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:28
Ken C. wrote: Still sick, skinny, and weak. I'm in-no shape to run a-marathon in week and one-half. I plan to rest for aweek or two before joining the team for St. George training.

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Sat, Apr 18, 2009 11:43 AM

Wayne J. wrote Just got onto new website.  What does it say about a group when the dead & alumni out-number the active members? Race today was a challenge, more a long tempo run than real race.  great area to run in, did get a little sick of Speedway.  We were sharing the road with large trucks for 14 of the 13 miles its all good.  The perfect morning ended with coffee served in a bath-tub sized cup.  Anticipating a crash later.

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Sat, 18 Apr 2009 11:13 AM
Pete Z. wrote Ken, we missed ya.  Third place for Wayne, Fourth place for me (but somehow I will be probably be 5th place in my age group).  Actually, 5th place runner was probably about 2 hours behind me, so there was plenty of room for an iLooper sweep.  We could’ve used Icarus Katsanis, Eagle Eye Ingram, Shuffles Magoo and wise doc B.
Overall a good time trial event for Wayne and me. 
Wayne left me for dead at about mile 7.5, probably finished 2-3 minutes ahead of me.  I was under the wave of sleepless three days of head cold doped up on antihistamines, decongestants.

What a long, strange trip it’s been…
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Monday Jan. 19, 2009 Steak and drinks at Firebirds
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