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Salt Lake Half Marathon

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Location:

Herriman,UT,USA

Member Since:

Jan 01, 2009

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Age Division Winner

Running Accomplishments:

St George Marathon: 3:23:54 (10/6/12)

Half IM: 5:44:03 (8/25/12 - course was long!)

25K trail - Buffalo Run (16.5) 2:34:50

Half Marathon: American Fork - 1:30:44  6/23/12

Spectrum 10K 43:42   3/17/2012

Best 5K: Spanish Fork 21:55 05/30/09

Short-Term Running Goals:

Okay, so for 2013 I am going to have FUN! Not that running isn't always fun, but I had a wonderful breakthrough year last year and I want to play this year :) AND get faster! So, my first goal I'm going to put out there is my yearly mileage goal.
It is 2,186 miles from my driveway to my sister (QP's) driveway! I want to spend this year on a virtual trek cross country running those miles. So, that is how far I will run in 2013...from my house to QPs. It will take all year and yes, this is measured on Hwys so it isn't really exactly how I COULD run it, but good enough. 43 miles/week...totally doable, and a fun goal to track how far I've traveled as I go along. Who knows...maybe I'll even run PAST her house :)

I will do more trail runs, Boston, Pacing duties, another Half IM and some other tris. I'm excited for this next year and look forward to having fun with all of you out on the roads, and trails! Maybe bag a few peaks this year too!!

Long-Term Running Goals:


Big Dreams: 5K in 20:2X; 10K in 39:XX; Half in 1:29:XX; Full in 3:15:XX; complete the Rim2Rim2Rim run and not die; Comrades; Iron(wo)Man.

Run for the rest of my life!

Personal:

4 children: twelve, eight, five and baby Fartlek - 2 1/2. Wonderful supportive husband that lets me drag him and the family all over for race after race!

Finished 13 marathons and LOVE running that distance! I'm definitely hooked to the marathon monster and hope to constantly improve my endurance, speed and stay injury free!

I've also found a love of trail running! I hope to keep improving on this front.

After being injured with a broken foot at the first of 2012 I found a tri group and started training with them and am now loving tris! The half IM was harder than I'd ever imagined...and am ready to do it again. I'll earn my bike butt and someday have enough time to train for a full IM.

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
BIKE MILES Lifetime Miles: 1168.40
LUCY MILES Lifetime Miles: 25.25
Adidas Lifetime Miles: 319.66
Orange II Lifetime Miles: 390.41
Boston Mizuno Lifetime Miles: 568.97
Fargo Nikes Lifetime Miles: 500.03
BEANS Lifetime Miles: 755.00
Orange Bostons Lifetime Miles: 527.59
Solomon Trail Lifetime Miles: 363.98
PI Tri Shoes Lifetime Miles: 4.00
Boston Mizuno 10s Lifetime Miles: 140.75
New Orange Lifetime Miles: 157.05
Total Distance
43.30
OEOHFPPE Miles: 6.20Awesome Elixers Miles: 23.10Purple People Runners Miles: 6.00Cookie, Cookie Miles: 8.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
Total Distance
6.20

Pull back week for me...plus a race Saturday :)

6.2 in honor of Boston, I did the 20 Saturday so I did 6.2 at around MP today to honor all those courageous runners out in the heat (I was grateful for the TM). 

3.4 @ 8:13, 1.6 @ 8:06, 1 @ 8:00, .2 progressive finishing at 7:30 - all at 1% incline. TT: 50:30; AP: 8:08

Felt harder than I thought it should, but I had to remind myself that this doesn't mean I can't run my Goal of 1:38 Saturday, it will be downhill - don't stress, you're prepared.

1650 yds of swim at Masters in about 40 min. Did swim, kick, pull - good class! I always feel really rested and recovered when I swim after I run.

OEOHFPPE Miles: 6.20
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
Comments(3)
Total Distance
10.00

BBK run, brought George and Chad with me this morning. I think they enjoyed it :)

5K warm-up, good chad about the Boston Massacre  yesterday with Chad. SO proud of all of you that ran it and took it down in that heat!! Any finish time was a good finish time - period!

5K tempo, this was my speedwork for the week in a final push for SL half. The first portion of the first mile recorded on the Garmin (I didn't reset it from the warm-up and then we did about a 1/4 mile add-on to let the 'slow group' get ahead so we could chase them to the finish) was 6:54, 2nd mile was 7:29 (hard uphill here, glad to see it was 7:30!!), 3rd mile 7:11 (downhill recovery from the uphill, I backed off a little in effort to recover some), then the last split was .4 of a mile to the finish and my AP was 6:41. How in the heck that happened I don't know. I honestly felt like I was burning out and slowing down! Chad came back and ran me in the last .15 and it was nice to have someone to pull me in.

The next 5K I opted to go with the 'slow group' so I could do a recovery. I'd done my SW for the day and just wanted the miles now. My stomach revolted...nearly threw up. I don't know why I keep getting this 'sour stomach' thing, but it is getting annoying. I've never had GI/gut issues before and I'm sick of this...literally. I still kept a decent pace until the very end, but man, I need to figure this out and make it GO AWAY! Maybe I just need to eat in the morning?

Added a half mile on the end to make it an even 10, stretched and came home. Another good BBK workout in the books!

Now I'll go to spin and take baby to his swim class. Taper down now to Saturday...

AP: 8:26 splits: 9:34, 8:33, 8:34, 7:51 (.7 of this was speed), 7:29, 7:11, 7:52 (.4 of this was speed), 8:41, 8:54, 9:40

Awesome Elixers Miles: 10.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
Comments(6)
Total Distance
6.00

I had to sleep in today...waking up early the next 3 days in a row just might kill me :)

Thankfully my neighbor could watch my little terror so I didn't have to take him back to the gym today. He got written up for biting again yesterday. 

6 on the TM - progressive. Started at 7.0 for 2 miles, 7.1 next 2, 7.2 for 5th, 7.3 and then progressive every 1/4 mile to the finish (and every .05 the last quarter). Pulling the end at a 7:30. TT: 50:45 AP: 8:27

Went to swim and coach had us doing different strokes, not just free. I've never done fly before in my life, but did it for 50 today. I felt pretty cool, but probably looked like a big DORK! Oh well, good arm workout for sure today. Swimming always seems to help recover well from the running. 1900yds total

Purple People Runners Miles: 6.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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Total Distance
8.00

Oh boy, the fun never ceases around here! I went to bed last night sipping on lemon and honey tea, hoping and praying I'd wake up without this sore throat. No beans and no voice. No fever, just a minor cough and a wicked sore throat. Nice... The weather is going to be good on Saturday so something else has to come up. The good thing about it all is that this isn't my BIG race, Ogden is. So, if I get all the cruddy stuff out of the way now I'll have a good Ogden, right?

Today and Tomorrow I'm working full time (training for work). 9-5 baby. So, I get the 'real' life of you working folks. Getting kids off to school/sitters/lunches and runs all in and ready to go out the door by 8AM. Holy moly you people deserve a medal! I missed my baby and hated sitting in a classroom with 13 idiots. Okay, they aren't all idiots, but I just hate this training...really hate it. Anyway back to running...

Met Chad (everyone else wimped out!) at 5AM for our urban trail route. Due to my sicky-sickness Chad was nice and ran pokey slow with me (well, slow for him - fine for me) so I didn't get kidnapped and murdered on the trails. Thanks Chad! AP: 9:12

I got home in time for a 20 min nap before go time and finally now at 7:30PM I've had a chance to blog. Sigh. Racquetball date tonight, after I run the kids out to my mom's house 20 miles - one way - so she can watch them tomorrow.

I don't know how you guys do it!

Oh, and I did end up seeing the doc today and he gave me some magic mouthwash (I thought he was just being silly about the name until the Pharmacist called it the same thing!) and an over the counter herb that has been clinically proven to shorten the duration of colds/flus. Well heck, what have I got to lose? Meds in and fingers crossed. I was going to run and/or spin tomorrow, but I think at this point my body needs rest more than miles.

Cookie, Cookie Miles: 8.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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Race: Salt Lake Half Marathon (13.1 Miles) 01:36:41, Place overall: 28, Place in age division: 9
Total Distance
13.10

KAMIKAZIE!!! 

Yup, that was the plan :) I still have no voice and am coughing up crap like a bad smoker, but I decided if I was going to go for broke and blow up, I might as well make it a fantastic fail! What did I have to lose? 

Life was crazy and my poor husband who went to work at 9AM on Friday still wasn't home when I woke up at 4:30 to get ready to leave. He said he was close though, so I knew the kids would never even know no one was home for a while. Luckily my neighbor Jessica offered to drive so I could leave the family car for him to get everyone to 9AM soccer games. Only one problem...I was being cautious and locked the front door when I left and we always lock the garage door (into the house) at night. So...he got locked out. It took about 10 minutes of doorbell ringing and phone calls to wake up my daughter (no one else even woke up!) so that he could get in the house. I tell ya...the fun never ceases :)

Jessica and I met Toby at trax and had an adventurous ride to the start (isn't SL always that way?) we got a fast pop line, I gargled with my magic mouthwash so I could drink without feeling knives in my throat, dropped our bags then lined up.

We still had 10 min to show time so we made our way to the front to give Andrea and Allie and Emily a little pep talk (ha!) before the race and then we went off to find where we really fit into the crowd...the BACK!

Once we crossed the line I just took off, I knew it would feel hard and breathing would be labored, so I just ran. Ooops...first mile came in at 6:42! Oh boy, Plan Kamikaze was in action - full force. I did catch the 3:15 pacers and Jose was with them so I decided to slow it up a little and hang there. It felt good now - not so kamikaze :) still couldn't talk and breathe, but hey I knew that would happen. Then we hit some good downhill and I just let it fly, blow up or not I was just going for it.

I really felt good and in control and like I was running right where I should be and the miles just ticked by. I didn't like the extra out and back in Sugarhouse park, not that it was hard I just wasn't expecting it and it messed with my mind a little. I figured they had to have changed the course later down in the line because of the extra nearly 1/2 mile loop, but I didn't know where. I was hoping they'd dropped the mile 12 hill, but figured I couldn't get THAT lucky! I did take all the effort I could to give a shout out to Andrea and Emily when I got to see them on the turn, but it is hard to talk, let alone yell. I hope they heard me :)

I took a gu at mile 7 and I never stopped running. Not a walk through an aid station at all. I'm getting better at the drinking on the run thing :) well, okay just don't look at my white shirt in any of the race pictures...I had a drinking problem and red powerade is unforgiving. shirt, legs, arms - a very pretty sight I was!

Just after mile 9 ticked off I saw the shadow of someone with a pace sign just over my shoulder. What the?!? REALLY?!? They started pacers at 1:40 so my only goal was to NOT let the 1:40 pacer pass me and I'd nail my PR...so what the heck was this?!? I'd been watching my splits and KNEW I was on track for a 1:35ish so why was he here?!? Someone asked "you 1:40?" "yeah, but I'm about 3 min ahead right now" THREE MINUTES AT MILE NINE?!? What kind of pacer are you? Other than a bad one?!? I said out loud (you have to understand how much effort it takes me to talk right now let alone when I'm running a 7:20mm) "Three min ahead of time at mile nine? that sure plays bad head games with some people!" A girl in pink in front of me said "but, it can inspire and push others" - oh SHUT UP! He is there to run a specific pace and his response of "well, that's just what the race has given me" is NOT a good answer OR inspiring. What about all the deflated egos of the people who were shooting for a 1:40 and couldn't keep up with his 1:36 pace those first 9 miles and gave up back at mile 5? Man...okay, I'll get off my rant now. I didn't see him until the end of the race after that, he pulled back and ran slower. Made me happy to put him in his place (am I a little bi*&$y today or what?!?)

So, shortly after that I saw Rachelle at Liberty Park and it was SO nice to see her and have someone personally cheering me on. Gave me the push I needed to get through the park in good style.

I didn't feel any fatigue or remorse about my kamikaze start until mile 11, but at that point I was at 1:20 and I knew that if I simply ran 10mm for the last 2 miles I'd still hit a PR! Awesome sauce. So, I just let myself let go of thinking about numbers and just do what my body would let me do. I climbed the hill in good fashion and never felt like I was going to die, which is good for me on hills! The crosswalk counter at the top of the hill was counting down from 18 when I noticed it and I told myself to get to the top of the hill by the zero. I made it! Turned to see the finish line (that had moved up from the gateway to East of the Energy Solutions Arena - thank you loop around Sugarhouse!) and I had a nice gentle downhill finish. Turn it on and give it what you got, and I did. Final .15 I recorded on the Garmin came in at 6:04 pace so I guess I can't hate the Kamikaze start too much :) The 2 near 8mm on mile 11 and 12 weren't quite what I'd wanted them to be and they were the result of the Kamikaze start, but I still don't think I regret it - yet.

Finish time was 1:36:41, so an AP of 7:22 for the race. This is a 4+ min PR for me from the last time I raced a half. So, I get a new PR in my book and the knowledge that I CAN hit it better and harder if I'm not sick :) I just have to kamikaze the start and I'll be great.

splits: 6:42, 7:13, 6:50, 7:06, 7:27, 7:40, 7:19, 7:29; 7:19; 7:24; 7:32; 7:56; 7:52 (my horrible mile 12 hill was a faster AP than the straightway on State St...awesome); 6:04 for last recorded .15 of the race.

Feelin' good and now I just need a new head that doesn't have a sore throat, ringing ears, headache, stuffy nose and coughing fits to nail the full at Ogden.

Thanks for enduring my novel race report. I'm a happy girl with a new PR today :)

Thanks also to a great support crew: Toby, Jessica, Smooth and Lowell - you guys are amazing!!! Thanks for sharing this race and special day with me. Top 30/2800 females and top 10 in my AG - I won't complain!


Awesome Elixers Miles: 13.10
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
Comments(25)
Total Distance
43.30
OEOHFPPE Miles: 6.20Awesome Elixers Miles: 23.10Purple People Runners Miles: 6.00Cookie, Cookie Miles: 8.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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