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September 2012

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CA,USA

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Nov 01, 2011

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Female

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runner since 2003.

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Personal:

Like the founder of this blog, my name is Sasha. I live in Utah most of the time, but sometimes I live in other places. My partner in life and running is a year-old blue heeler (ACD).

I most prefer to run in the forest, but anywhere is fine. I don't usually train for anything in particular. I just like to run.

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Mundial Team Lifetime Miles: 24.00
Copa Mundial Lifetime Miles: 12.00
Lunarglide Lifetime Miles: 26.65
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12.00
Lunarglide Miles: 2.00
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3.00

On this day in 1970, my mother was born in Northern California.

On this day in 2012, my doctor told I am allowed to run again.

On this day, this very day, today, I laced up brand-new cleats and coughed my way through a women's league soccer game. We won 8 to nothing. I did not score a goal.

"Just, you know, don't start out with 30-mile weeks," she told me. My physical therapist is effervescent and named Tiffany. My doctor is curt and named Darla.

The reason I'm coughing is (in part) because of a business trip last week to Salt Lake City. Utah looms large in my mind as the birthplace of true running (along with, undeniably, Colorado) and I spent three days squinting and walking around downtown, off into the wandery north, down south to Sugarhouse, under artificial spritzers at the Gateway Mall where I bought books and dodged teenagers. It was dry and hot, and I spent days shivering in meetings at the hotel and then headed out into the hottest part of the day, my cheap Target sunglasses reducing the 3pm Utah sun to a level approximately only 150% what it is in northern Alabama.

I walked to Harmon's and bought avocados and pink Himalayan sea salt. I know it is gross that I tested to see that the salt rock was really salty, but reader, I did it. At night I did my physical therapy in my hotel room and watched Mean Girls and the DNC.

My legs didn't hurt. They don't hurt. I am eight pounds above my racing weight, and my ability to do pull-ups faded with my confidence in my own body. The other therapist, Amy, is blonde and pregnant and impossibly beautiful. She has a Julia Roberts mouth, which she uses to tell me that I have many years ahead. I'm lying on my back on the therapy table in my work shirt and referee shorts, an outfit of necessity. I put my arms behind my head, trying to prop myself up and look at her more directly. "You really think so?" "Oh, yeah." "Okay."

Happy birthday, Mom.

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My cousin's birthday. I do my exercises. Yoga is at 5:30 AM. I tell myself I'll go, for the sixth week in a row. For the sixth week in a row, I don't. For the fourth week in a row, I don't feel bad about it, either.

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Soccer with the mens' team. While the young dudes I referee with are, by and large, a-holes, the older ones are pure gold. Tim is in his fifties. He is drinking a Bud Light tall boy on the sideline, fresh off his team's 3-2 victory. We broshake. My game starts, and the team captain puts me in for about ten minutes total. I mouth off a little but I'm not really mad about it. I'm slower than I used to be. Soccer's about putting your money where your mouth is. Oh, and it's also about drawing the foul.

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Sprints in the pool. 50m and 100m free. About a half hours' worth, nothing too crazy.

I went down to Fleet Feet on the south side of town and got fitted for shoes. I like that they have a camera there so they can actually show you the pronation-- I track so well until right when I hit the ground and then I look like a drunk toddler. Oh well. (:

I hate the way support shoes look BUT FINE okay, yes, being injured hurt a lot. I know all the cool kids run in Saucony and Brooks but I think my Nike Lunarglide 4's will be fine. I got orthotics and everything. I always said I was old on the inside.

 

cool runnings, y'all.

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Good walk around Boulder with G. I like it. Things are good.

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Biked 16 miles with G. from Aspen down to the Woody Creek Tavern. Eight miles downhill, eight miles uphill. Chicken soup and beer in between.

In the afternoon, we took a nap and then headed to Maroon Bells in search of a postcard view. Wish I could post a photo-- too gorgeous for words. I so don't want to go home.

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Baby hike on the way over Independence. Ice caves at Grottos. I really need to quit hiking in my Keds; my physical therapist is just going to have a fit.

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I have been so atrocious about recording things.

Missing Colorado like crazy, of course. Power yoga and then 2 miles on the gym treadmill. Took it easy-- 1.5 running at about a nine-minute pace, then a half mile slow jog/walk/cool down.

Sore for days. Embarrassing.

Lunarglide Miles: 2.00
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Eight-hour sailing race on the lake. We won our class.

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The closest I got to exercise today was cleaning the bathroom. One day at a time.

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Total Distance
12.00
Lunarglide Miles: 2.00
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