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Utah Valley Half marathon

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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
Total Distance
50.11
Brooks Miles: 13.84Asics Flat Miles: 24.07Asics GT-2000 Miles: 12.20
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Total Distance
7.70

easy run in South Weber

Brooks Miles: 7.70
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Total Distance
9.07

I met up with Sariah early this morning to do a workout. She did an easier tempo I did 14     1min on/off pick ups AP 6:51 for the pickups. It was the first day in awhile I felt good. I'm supposed to run Utah Valley half this weekend and today I finally felt like I can get through it ok. I have no expectation for this race since the last three weeks haven't gone well plus we were in California for 1 week so my training wasn't there. I probably won't wear a watch again. 

Asics Flat Miles: 9.07
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Total Distance
6.14

Easy run this morning with Sariah and Angie.

Brooks Miles: 6.14
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Total Distance
6.00

easy run in Ogden

Asics GT-2000 Miles: 6.00
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Total Distance
4.20

Easy miles with some strides at the end. Excited for another race tomorrow.

Asics GT-2000 Miles: 4.20
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Race: Utah Valley Half marathon (13.1 Miles) 01:28:54, Place overall: 11, Place in age division: 1
Total Distance
17.00

This was not my best race. This was my first bad race of the year. The last three weeks I'd been struggling and I didn't have high hopes for this race. Katie stayed with me at my grandparents house and we rode to buses where we met up with Sariah. We got there and felt the wind blowing and I realized Riley was right, there was going to be a headwind in the canyon today. He says this happens every so often and it happened to be race day that it happened. We did a two mile warm up and some strides. I didn't wear my watch again hoping that would help me like it did at Ogden half (it did not). I ran with a girl for the first four miles she said that our first mile was 6:24 and our second was 6:35. Those are the only splits I know. I felt OK while I was running through the canyon but I could feel I wasn't running as fast as Ogden a couple weeks ago. I tried picking people off in the canyon but they were all to far ahead. I got one guy in a green shirt. Out of the canyon around mile 8 I got a massive side ache, I was nursing it for the next mile and it caused me to slow down way to much. It was painful and it now effected my time even worse. So I turned my race into a faster long run at that point and basically just finished. Not a good day for me but hopefully I can come back from it soon. I did a mile cool down with Katie and then another mile by myself so I could meet up with Riley and cheer for the marathoners. 

Asics Flat Miles: 15.00Asics GT-2000 Miles: 2.00
Weight: 0.00
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Total Distance
50.11
Brooks Miles: 13.84Asics Flat Miles: 24.07Asics GT-2000 Miles: 12.20
Weight: 0.00
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