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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

Tue, Sep 25, 2012

Total Distance

11.50

With the good comes the bad, right?

I was excited for this morning's track workout! I was ready to put these legs to the test. But, they weren't ready for me.

almost 3 miles warm-up - felt a LOT harder than I thought it should.

Did a little track warm-up (after hopping the fence): sprint the curves, recover the straights for 2 laps. Then We did push a 200, recover 200 - 2X; then push a 400, recover a 400.

Then, the fun began. 6X800 with a 400 recovery. I was ready to blow away these 800's! I'd had such a great summer and things have been going well. Oops.

3:24 - hello? remember that 1 mile yesterday? you ran that at a faster pace than that!

3:12 - more like it! Hitting the groove now.

3:22 - whaaa?

3:23 - again? I guess this is what I settle for.

3:21 - a little better, lets hit the last one HARD!

3:23 - whatever. I'm done.

So, very disappointing. I really thought I could hit them 3:10-3:15. I don't know if I really just can't do it or if I was tired. The rain and dark I'm sure didn't help either. Oh well. I know that I should at least be able to hit a 3:30 like Ogden, so I need to just be happy with that.

3 miles cool-down.

Total 11.5 miles AP: 8:03. Another MP day, shouldn't complain about that.

Purple People Runners Miles: 11.50

Night Sleep Time: 0.00	Nap Time: 0.00	Total Sleep Time: 0.00	Weight: 0.00

Comments

From Rachelle on Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 14:11:26 from 199.190.170.21

That workout sounds so hard I just chocked on my string cheese. Sheesh women back to back speed days? You better be running easy breezy tmr.

Do not be dissapointed in the workout. A - it was insanely hard and B - your legs are probably a bit fatigued from the fast miles yesterday.

From Teena Marie on Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 16:49:00 from 63.230.2.158

You will kill SGM! NO WORRIES!!! :)

From Smooth on Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 20:13:12 from 65.130.14.36

I was telling Karen today what a speedstar you are! That is one awesome speed work and nice mileage and AP too! You are golden for SGM!!! :) :) :)

From RAD on Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 13:11:58 from 98.202.23.178

Rachelle, the speed miles Monday were quite by accident, but today was the real speed day. Too bad I knocked it all out Monday :)

Teena, it usually ends up killing ME, that is my problem with it.

Smooth, Thanks, it was a lot harder than I thought it should be! This is what worries me. But, I'll take it as it comes and go from there.

From JulieC on Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 19:51:33 from 67.41.191.67

i choked on my saliva-- going what in the heck is Rachel doing ???? flip I thought you were done the first paragraph!! it looks like 3:20 is happening for you baby!! maybe 3:15 if you didn't already run sprints hello.

From RAD on Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 14:28:16 from 98.202.23.178

Julie, the first few laps on the track were just to warm-up the legs for speed - nothing all out, nothing timed, just working on the turnover. The 800s were the real workout :)

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