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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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No aqua-jog for me this morning :( Forgot that I had a mole removed and that it's not a good idea to swim 2 days later!

elliptical 45 min L8 - 3.8 miles 400 calories. I decided to bump the resistance down to see if my ITB would behave a little better for a longer period of time.

Spin 45 min 4-6% resistance 12.5 miles - 430 calories. ITB behaved until the last maybe 12 minutes, then it started squawking at me

elliptical 45 min L8 - 3.5 miles 350 calories. Slowed down to keep the ITB happy and for the most part it worked. I mean honestly there is always the pain, so what do you do? Only had one second of "aaagggghhh" pain, but then it went away.

Home, stretched and refuled - ready to read painter's 1/2 marathon reports!!

*as my own side note, hip was more tender this morning than it has been in quite some time. Curious as to why, but think it may be from being on my feet all day at home this last week*

Night Sleep Time: 8.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 8.00Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Carolyn in Colorado on Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 14:09:09 from 24.8.167.243

Way to burn over 1000 calories!

From Brent on Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 14:13:06 from 168.178.30.194

Devine Miss M - wish I had some wisdom about the ITB, many runners on the blog have issues with teh ITB. I have stretch that is hard to explain. I will give it a try. To stretch your right ITB, lay on your left side, grab your right ankle, bend the leg, and pull your ankle towards your behind, now, take your left leg and put over right knee and press down with the left leg. I hope you can figure this out. I will look on the internet and see if I can find this stretch with pictures. Nice cross training.

Stay Kool, B of BS Rools out

From RAD on Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 18:06:49 from 67.172.229.125

Thanks Carolyn! The caramel popcorn I foolishly decided to make last night has 'eaten' all those calories I'm afraid :)

Brent, I've been through numerous PT appts and doc appts with the ITB for nearly 3 years now. The stretch you described is one of my favorites and is currently being done at least 2X/day. I tell you, I wish I had answers too! Just when I think I've got it licked it comes back to bite me BIG time, and after the 2 cortizone shots I had in Oct and Nov it is worse than it's ever been and I haven't been running!! Go figure. I'm fed up with the thing and ready to simply have someone cut it out of me - who needs their hips and knees connected anyway???

From Nancy on Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 23:13:29 from 76.27.19.206

Great job as usual Rachel. I'm sorry your IT band is still bothering you.

From Shelly on Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 23:19:02 from 67.166.68.81

Your workouts always amaze me. I don't know how you can do it- over 2 hours at the gym sounds like sheer torture.

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