St. George Marathon

Lots of good things came from it, and I really grew to love it.

And so me and my friend, we decided we were gonna train for the St. George Marathon.

And that was something I never thought I would do, and so I was so proud of myself when I would run more than I'd ever run before.

And so I was probably, like, halfway through my training block.

Yeah, and finally, this is from, uh, our client, Bill Drinkward, who we've actually had on the podcast before.

He had a awesome weekend at the St. George Marathon in Utah.

He says, "Abundance is the word that swirled in my mind on my recent 59th birthday.

I took my wife, Kathy, daughter Kara, and son-in-law Dustin to participate in the 50th edition of the St. George Marathon last Saturday.

Kara, Dustin, and I ran the full marathon, and Kathy speed walked the half.

Despite a very hot day, we harvested abundance on the course with Kara, Dustin, and I all running our fastest marathon results ever.

Marilyn Tarkalson, you ran a 258 marathon last year at age 49.

And if I'm not wrong, in a few days from now, you'll be running the St. George Marathon in the elite category at age 50.

That's, well, very inspiring.

And I would love to learn more about how you actually got to this point in your running career.

I just kind of, usually I have my own plan, but she had something she wanted to do.

So I was like, oh, what the heck, I'll join you.

We wanted to simulate going downhill because the St. George Marathon is a little bit of downhill.

So we went to the top of this area in our community.

I mean, I do all types of things, both, I mean, social, I mean, work's fun.

I have a good time at work, and we, I don't say it's a party every day, but we just have a good time with each other, and we have, you know, we joke around and have fun and work hard so that we can take those holidays off or the long weekends and just go live it and... enjoy i mean try a new hobby when i was a kid i loved tie-in flies oh i wasn't much of a fisherman but i love tie-in flies and i mean my dad is kind of the same way i mean he's he's into ham radio so of course i got to try ham radio yeah and so that got me in one of those civic groups as a young man and um i got an honorary lifetime membership in the dixie amateur radio club because i helped him set up their whole new repeater system and oh really just years on their board and just helping with all their project and you know some of those it's not that big of a deal but it's just one of those little rewards that i told you earlier that you you get those rewards in life for just being part of that stuff and even now i love ham radio they're gearing up to do this uh The St. George Marathon? Yeah.

And they're in charge of all this emergency supplies, all the aid station supplies, the shuttles.

And they coordinate that on all these radio frequencies and repeater systems that 20 years ago I helped set up.

My daughter is, I'm actually training for a marathon right now.

I'm doing the St. George marathon beginning of October.

Good for you.

Good marathon.

And, uh, she's been around the sport for a while.

She's a marathoner, she's a triathlete.

Uh, she has four kids.

She lives in Utah.

So little pregnant teenager, right? Was not running marathons with twins.

But the next year I went back to St. George Marathon and actually qualified for Boston.

And I had no idea how to train.

So I was just kind of like, I don't know, but, and I was like, wow, this is great.

Okay.

So when I ran St. George Marathon, which was my second marathon, actually, as I was leading up to that race...

You know, my fitness was increasing and a lot of my friends and just people around me were like, you know, you're like, you could probably qualify for Boston.

Like they were, I was doing tempo runs, you know, and posting them on, I guess, Facebook at the time.