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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
7.00

Sleep, sleep I just want to sleep...

I was sore all weekend from my mini weights session on Friday! Today I actually felt like I could move, but I'm just tired. Got to the gym and needed some warm-up time. 15 min on the elliptical @ L14 = 1.5 miles.

I've decided I want my regular running pace to improve, so I'm going to start at 7mph/8:34 pace on the TM consistently. This will get some speed back in my legs and get my body used to a faster paces as well. So, since I had an hour left I hit the 8:34 pace and went to it. Honestly the pace feels fine, I think if I was trying to have a conversation with someone it would be more difficult, but when I'm just going alone it's not a problem. At 5 miles I put it up to 8:20, then for the last mile I did 8:00 till the last .25 which I took at 6:57. Feeling good!

I'm glad I did the run even though I was tired and had little motivation this morning. Now to see if I can be as happy about getting laundry done, the kitchen cleaned and the checkbook balanced...

Mizuno Inspire -cookie Monster Miles: 7.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Lily on Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 14:22:48 from 67.199.181.73

hehehe you should see Julie and I have conversations running 6:40 pace. It's kinda comical.

From Merri on Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 14:28:13 from 160.7.252.148

ah laundry day is the best isn't it? not really. ;)

From leslie peterson on Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 14:38:38 from 174.52.158.81

Rach, you put me to shame! Now go attack that laundry with as much gusto! Or not... :)

From RAD on Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 14:50:18 from 67.172.229.125

Lily, a 6:40 pace would be NO conversation from me...you might get a nod or two :)

Merri, I can't wait until my children are old enough to fold their own laundry! I have one down and 3 to go.

Leslie, I'm thinking I'll take the not since I'm still sitting here :)

From DaleG on Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 15:01:31 from 174.52.230.9

Judging by your time at the St. George half, I'd say that 8:34 pace should be pretty comfortable for you. LOL. Nice job on the run.

From Tom Slick on Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 19:14:43 from 69.171.160.243

What an animal!

From Teena Marie on Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 22:30:08 from 67.2.102.13

Extremely cool!!!! :)

Did you get the laundry done?

From The Quiet Pirate on Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 10:06:53 from 152.26.59.252

It's wonderful when we amaze ourselves with what can do! Congrats on the great pace :-)

From RAD on Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 12:38:21 from 67.172.229.125

Dale, well it was my AP at SGM so I guess I should consider it marathon pace, but since I want MP to be 8ish I should start working my way down...

Slick, I still need to do it on the road!

Teena, laundry - check!

QP, it's hard when you KNOW you can do it, but your mind talks you out of it. So I'm trying to be stronger than my feeble brain :)

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