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Location:

Salt Lake City,UT,United States

Member Since:

May 08, 2011

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

Unaided -  
17:16 OktoberFAST 5K (10/11)
17:23 BAA 5K (4/12)
37:10 Memorial Day 10K (5/11)
1:17:03 Long Beach Half Marathon (10/11)
1:17:21 USA 1/2 Champs - Duluth (6/12)
2:49:01 Philadelphia Marathon (11/11)

Aided -
16:52 Fight For Air 5K (6/11)
17:08 Provo City 5K (5/12)
1:17:52 Top of Utah Half Marathon (8/11)
1:17:54 Utah Valley Half Marathon (6/11)

Short-Term Running Goals:

Run consistently as I get back to 100% health. Stay patient!

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

Have fun training and racing.

Sub-17 5K
Sub-1:17 Half Marathon
Quality for the Olympic Trials in the marathon

Personal:

I am originally from Knoxville, TN and moved to SLC with Jake in 2010. I started racing in 2011 and had some great success before a major injury hit me in July 2012. I had athletic pubalgia surgery in May 2013...then again in Sept 2014 and am still trying to get back to my old self. Although running is my true passion, I love doing pretty much anything active outdoors - backcountry skiing, backpacking, biking, etc. 

I've been running for the Saucony Team since 2011. I enjoy representing the brand and really do believe they make the best shoes :)

I work as a Quality Engineer for BD Medical in Sandy.

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Skinning Miles (1000ft ~ 2.5 Miles) Lifetime Miles: 912.35
Hiking Miles Lifetime Miles: 10.50
Total Distance
6.50

AM - 3 miles.

PM - 3.5 miles, beat Jake on our usual meet-up route from work so ran a little more. Felt little bits of the "old me" running. Very good sign.

New therapist was good...He compared my strength in a lot of the muscles with a force gauge. The strength numbers were good, and I was within 1% comparing one side to the other. I already suspected that, but it was a good confirmation. This is definitely more of a neuromuscular problem with improper firing of muscles during exercise. I'm starting to get a better grasp on all of this and have come up with some of my own re-training exercises that seem to be working. The therapist gave me some additional things to try as well. He talked about doing a gait motion analysis, but I'm hesitant because I'm not convinced that it will give any useful information. I'll have to think about it more..

Night Sleep Time: 9.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 9.00Weight: 115.00
Comments
From Rachelle on Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 09:41:51 from 199.190.170.22

Really happy to hear you got some useful feedback.

From Bam on Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 11:21:54 from 89.126.28.24

Great news and sounds promising. Funny you mention the gait analysis. I've noticed that since my injury that my right foot is everting (this can be seen clearly on my blog picture). There might be something in it, Andrea. There could be some stability issues with your lower leg and then the old kinetic chain might be kicking in. It sounds feasible to me.

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