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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
6.00

Late night chatting with friends - so it was off to the TM for me :)

6.0 miles in  49:16; AP: 8:12. First 2.5 at 8:20, next 2.5 @ 8:13, final mile started at 7:47 at half down to 7:41 then progressive finish the last quarter.

Felt good today and just had a great time today. I like nice, easy, fun run days like this morning!

Masters swim class to follow. Good workout! Did a pyramid workout 25/50/75/100/75/50/25 and 6 sets of those each time focusing on something different. Speed, pulls, breathing, kicks etc. Since this was my first workout with my new fins I was excited :) Wow, they really worked my legs over good! Also, my last 25 on the breathing I did my 9 strokes/breath!! I did it! Do you know how hard it is to take NINE strokes before breathing? It took the whole rotation set to get it, but I did :)

Cookie Monsters - Take 2 Miles: 6.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Smooth on Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 17:24:18 from 174.27.205.151

NICE run! You are swimming so well! SO AWESOME to take 9 strokes before breathing! You are a fish! :) That swim workout sounds fantastic!!! Excellent start of the week, Rachel! :)

From Scott Wesemann on Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 17:51:54 from 205.158.160.209

You lost me with the swimming stuff :) Nice run Smornin'.

From RAD on Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 18:05:40 from 98.202.23.178

Smooth, Thanks. I'm having fun in the water learning new things right now. Are you still interested in Saturday?

Scott, When I started swim class I was completely clueless and had to have the coach explain EVERY workout. I'm getting better now. Still no expert, but better.

From Andrea on Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 18:13:15 from 72.37.244.100

9 strokes is impressive! When I was training for a tri, I was really happy with 6 strokes! haha

From Toby on Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 21:57:54 from 199.101.230.254

Ummmm....I would drowned! Nicely done super woman!

From Steam8 on Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 22:00:19 from 166.70.55.77

Nice treadmill run! You are getting super fast!

From Brent on Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 22:06:19 from 66.7.127.67

Devine Miss M - nice bricker of sorts, no way, 9 strokes? I had better get training, you are coming after me at Herriamn this next year.

Stay Kool, B of BS rool sout

From RAD on Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 02:44:02 from 98.202.23.178

Andrea, well it was only a 25 I had to get through and I had tried and failed 2 times before. I was determined! Caught my breath and went for it.

Toby, nah, you could've sewn yourself a life raft before you hit the bottom :)

Steam, thanks. It was nice that it felt good and not like a horrible trudge!

Brent, I don't think I could beat you if I tried. Not willing to put the $ into the bike and I really think that is where tri's are lost and won!

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