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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
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I am so tired. Seriously. This single parent thing is rough, very rough. Up early, up late, entertaining kids all day, no time to clean, headache, no  time to eat a quiet meal and I just want someone else to change the baby's poopy diaper... Oh, and to sleep in.

Up early after a late night to get the gym done before pre school and an early doc appointment across town. I was tired of the bike again and since I didn't want to get up early enough for the super early spin class, so I did the stair climber thing again. 60 minutes with a nasty sweat puddle afterward.

Now I've GOT to get this house cleaned. It is a disaster after not being home enough to clean it, but the kids running around like crazy. blech.

Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Andrea on Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 19:41:55 from 72.37.171.52

You have quite a crew to be doing the single parent thing right now! Sounds tough - thanks for the birth control. Haha!

From Nancy on Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 21:01:46 from 76.23.21.118

I can sympathize. When I had six kids my husband worked out of town and in a whole year was only in town 6 weeks total. Way to keep up with all the exercise.

From steve ash on Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 21:13:22 from 24.10.169.210

I feel your pain. I've done the whole Mr Mom thing and it can be overwhelming at times for sure..

From Bec on Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:20:20 from 68.206.133.141

So last night I had the CRAZIEST dream about you... I read your blog for friday, (today) and you had ran 11 miles on a broken foot. I actually got REALLY mad at you! You said your foot didn't hurt at all while you ran those 11 miles. I yelled at you via the blog, it was crazy. I actually woke up laughing about it!

From Smooth on Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 17:13:10 from 75.162.95.99

I hope you got some well deserved and needed sleep! Where are your visiting teachers? :)

From Brent on Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 17:40:42 from 66.7.127.67

Devine Miss M - calm with grace, some days are just like that, ka sa rah sa rah, what will be will be. Good work in getting the workout.

Note, I was a single parent with my two girls for 4 years, I do know what you mean.

Stay Kool, B of BS rools out

From RAD on Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 01:42:39 from 98.202.23.178

Andrea, yes I do. I sure hope my husband makes it home safe...or I might just hire a nanny :)

Nancy, that is absolutely crazy! I guess I can live through this.

Steve, yeah - if I had to do this alone I probably would've stopped around 1!! :)

Becca, how did you know?!? I only meant to run just a little bit on it. It just felt so great that I kept going finally at 11 I stopped. You must be psychic :) whatever - no running for me, blah!!!

Smooth, my visiting teachers are, well...who knows :) One of them asked if I needed anything and I told her no. She is pretty busy anyway so I didn't want to put more burden on her. I did get some rest, thankfully.

Brent, 4 years - wow, now that deserves some sort of medal! I guess it really isn't that bad - it could be worse. Thanks for the support - as always.

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