| 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. Favorite Blogs: |
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| | Flight landed 11:30PM on Sunday and I didn't get home and into bed until 1AM. Poor Lauren had to get up for school. I had Craig take Nathan to piano at 5:30AM. I was just too tired! So, I basically slept through the morning and then took Adam to school and ran around Draper. I thought that although I still had no voice and had started coughing like a sicky, that the run would be good, because I hadn't run for so long. I had a good taper, right?? The run sucked. It was hard to breathe and I felt like I was killing myself to run a slow pace. The last mile took almost everything out of me. Seriously?!? Who put all this bad karma on me? When will I finally be able to be healthy and run again? :(
I made the official declaration that I was sick. My body is done. It needs a break...I MIGHT give it to it....
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| | The normal Tuesday Ten. I still suck. I'm still sick. I started 5-10 minutes early and I waited for them at the top of Emmeline. I almost took off, but they came around the corner at the exact right moment. Still no voice. I told Melanie and Chad that if they didn't want to run slow with me it was fine. I understood. But, please don't wait for me and run a quarter mile with me and then leave me and then wait again, because it makes me feel like crap. They did wait at the corner of Butterfield Park, but I just kept running. As predicted they left me in their dust about a quarter mile later and no words later. I noticed they waited for me at the corner of Main Street, but I guess they realized I was serious about not waiting and they took off just before I got there. I thought I was hauling on the way downhill home...ha! I looked at my watch and I was barely keeping an 8:30AP for those miles. Overall it was a 9:06AP. Seriously, I'm slow and I suck. I'm SO SICK OF THIS!!!!
I slept through boxing class, but got to legs class.
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| | sick=rest, right? It will make things better, right?
I did do Lina's boxing class just to get my points in and to get my blood flowing. It wasn't too bad. My throat is dry and sore and I'm sick.
I did work stuff all afternoon after getting Adam to kindergarten a few minutes late due to a printer issue, and had a nice evening with the family.
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| | All the boys whimped out! So, Melanie and I had a perfectly wonderful (but slow, I mean this IS still me) run around Shaggy Mountain. No skunks, no dogs, no nothing. Just a great run. I wish that 1:10 on that course was my slow pace again...1:17 and 1:18 happens WAY too much!!!
I did boxing and arms day later at the gym. Gotta get it done!
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| | So, my stupid knee started bothering me on the run yesterday. I felt a strong "snap/pop" and intense pain, but not nearly as bad as with my meniscus tear, but very similar. Anyway, so I'm attempting to rest due to sickness and now becuase of my stupid knee. Sigh. I'll never get back to "normal"...
So, I wasn't going to exercise at all, but I remembered that Nikki's daughter had put together an easter egg hunt for the kids and I wanted to support her. So, I got Nathan and Adam up and off to the gym for boxing class. I also did my #22 pushups for the challenge from Sherrie Shepherd.
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| | Knee is pretty achy, even at night. I'm taking Ibuprofen to help with pain through the night. So, I figured running wasn't a good idea. So, I decided to just do boxing classes. Craig came too!
Tabata and then 1 mile on the TM afterward at 8:36AP progressive.
Boxing class - good, but Brad talks too much.
Technique - Brad did more sparring, but Addi was good and didn't hit me too hard. So, no brain issues or headaches to worry about.
Then Craig came back and we cleaned the gym.
After getting ready I then spent the evening with Lauren and my mom at women's conference. Lauren and I did dinner alone, then we did Leatherby's after with my mom. A fun girls night.
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