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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
6.20

Another sleep-in day. Too tired and too many cookies last night :) I usually take Fridays off from running, but with no miles on Monday I would barely be pushing 40 with the 1/2 Saturday, so I talked myself into another day of TM running (only way to run while kids are up, gym has daycare!). Broke it up to help with monotony. 5K in 26 min then 20 min of biking (5 miles) then another 5K in 26 min. I think they were both just over 26 min, I started at 8:30 then pushed the last mile and would just keep cranking the last .5 to .25 just to get it finished. One of the teachers at the gym came and chatted my 2nd 5k first 2 miles so that helped a TON. Good run, even for the TM. Now off to hopefully get everything done I need to in the next 4 hours...then off to Logan. TOU 1/2 here we come!

oh...as a side note, not racing tomorrow. One of my longest and dearest friends is running this as her first 1/2 and I told her I'd run with her...so I'll be by her side the whole time. I really think she'll finish in under 2 hrs - did DesNews 10K in 50 min. I'm so excited for her and just this morning I was reminiscing that 2 yrs ago (almost to the day due to calendar differences) she ran Swiss Days as her first 10K. We were both SO proud that we finished in exactly 10mm!!! It was only my 3rd or so 10K, but her first. Funny how things can change so quickly. In the meantime she's even had a baby! I'm so stinkin' proud of her it's unreal!! YEA Stephanie!! YOU ROCK GIRL!!! 

okay...some guilt. Another friend I've met while living here in Herriman is also running TOU for her 1st. She's heavier and has worked REALLY hard to lose 30 lbs in the last 3 months and train for this baby. She runs closer to 14mm, but keeps movin' the whole time! I know she'll finish strong, after Steph is done I'm going to run back the course and grab her and run her in as well. Her sister is running with her, so I'll just be there at the end to cheer her in. This is going to be a FUN FUN race! So many exciting proud moments!


Mizuno Miles: 6.20
Night Sleep Time: 8.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 8.00Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Bec on Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 15:25:22 from 67.177.35.60

Nice TM workout, you are turning into me :). Have fun tomorrow, pretty sure I will be there too. I will be wearing the blue dress!

From Smooth on Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 15:51:42 from 71.32.233.155

Such good friend! Have fun tomorrow!

From leslie peterson on Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 12:26:40 from 76.23.61.78

Where are you?????? I am dying to hear about your race. I hope it went well!

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