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Salt Lake City 5K

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Location:

South Weber,UT,United States

Member Since:

Mar 05, 2013

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Half Marathon Finish

Running Accomplishments:

Current PRs

5K: SLCTC Winter Series 19:06

10K: Phoenix 10K 2014 39:11

10 miles: Striders WRC 2014 1:06:13

Half Marathon: Dogtown Half February 2014 1:25:09

Marathon: 3:19 I ran the Ogden Marathon in May 2009

 

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

Our family is complete with 4 sweet girls. Now it's time for me to shed the weight and get back into running shape for good. I'm ready to work at it again in 2017!

Long-Term Running Goals:

Long-term running goals, Sub 3 hour marathon and 1:20 half marathon. 

Personal:

I'm married to my great husband Riley Cook. He helps me accomplish my running goals. We have 4 daughters Evelyn, Hannah, Nora, and Iris I'm also excited to be running for Utahrunning.com.

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Asics Flat Pink Lifetime Miles: 138.47
Brooks Ravenna Lifetime Miles: 348.10
Asics C. Lifetime Miles: 345.37
Adidas Lifetime Miles: 15.90
Sat, Apr 16, 2016
Race: Salt Lake City 5K (3.2 Miles) 00:19:46, Place overall: 2
Total Distance
14.35

I decide earlier in the week to run this 5K, just to see how I would do. My goal was to break 20 minutes, which I'm happy about. It was a cold morning. I got a 2 mile warm up in with Kathryn, then went to the start. There's not much to report about this race, it was a flat course and I got beat by a 13 year old girl. She was pretty impressive. She was ahead of me at the start then I was going to pass her at about 1 mile and she took off, I couldn't catch her after that. I thought she was a tough runner. I'm not ashamed to lose to her :). I'm happy with the pace I ran. I ended up with 3.2 on my watch at the finish, so did my friend Kathryn. Splits were: 6:04, 6:11, 6:11 last .2 1:19. AP 6:09 I was finishing in 6:02 pace. It's hard to sprint nowadays. My "sprinting" isn't much faster then my 400m repeats pace. I'm turning 30 tomorrow, I wonder if that has something to do with it.

 

Pink Asics Flat Miles: 3.20Brooks GTS Miles: 11.10
Weight: 0.00
Comments
From allie on Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 14:40:00 from 24.99.46.55

nice race, amy. happy birthday tomorrow.

From Glory in the long run on Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 15:12:17 from 75.162.143.202

Yes, the sprinting does go down. But it's also the training. As distance runners we don't really run 100 meter repeats at 100%. Running intervals of these at 95% keeps our sprinting abilities up.

I know what you mean about toughness, when you lose to someone who's tough one feels okay about it.

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