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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
Tue, Oct 02, 2012
Total Distance
2.50

AM - 2.5 miles of running/backwards running. 

PM - 1.5 miles of walking at Sugarhouse Park. Walking is 10x more boring than running. 

Injury Update: I'm making a little progress...the injury is much more at bay than it was several weeks ago. Obviously, only running (forward!) for a mile at a time is not where I want to be but still an improvement. The past couple of days I have started to feel symptoms of IT band tightness - I'm taking this as an okay sign because 1) it's different from the terrible hamstring/hip issues and 2) I know how to treat IT band and am not running enough to really irritate it. My new goal is to be able to run 5 miles pain-free by my birthday (November 3). 

Night Sleep Time: 9.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 9.00Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Lulu Walls on Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 09:43:30 from 155.100.212.135

Good goal. Little progress is better than no progress. Call my PT :)

From Jake K on Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 09:46:58 from 155.100.226.191

We need to go for the 4x100m BACKWARDS relay record!

http://www.recordholders.org/en/list/backwards-running.html

From Jake K on Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 09:48:15 from 155.100.226.191

And according to this article, its "fashionable"

http://goo.gl/wPdes

From Lulu Walls on Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 09:49:05 from 155.100.212.135

I'm down. But Jake, I think you have a lot of work to do.

From Jake K on Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 09:54:20 from 155.100.226.191

I need to make sure to eat all my candy/indian corn, because if we're all on the same team, then I have no one to throw it at.

From allie on Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 10:25:22 from 161.38.218.168

i just returned the shape-ups i was planning to give you for your birthday, so that should help with the injury.

glad to hear about the progress. i like the goal -- that will be the best birthday party ever. let me know if i'm invited and i'll bring salsa cake.

From Rachelle on Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 11:20:06 from 159.212.71.17

So happy to hear you are making progress. :) I would like to be invited to the party as well.

I'll bring the icecream!

From Andrea on Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 12:37:44 from 72.37.171.52

I'll definitely start planning the party!!

Just read this about backwards running...I'm sure it has been backed up by tons of scientific studies :) So basically my mile of backwards is equal to 10 miles!! - "It has been said that taking 100 steps backward is the same as taking 1,000 steps forward, and that going backward burns a fifth more calories than running forward."

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