| Location: Wichita,KS, Member Since: Sep 14, 2008 Gender: Female Goal Type: Local Elite Running Accomplishments: marathon pr: 2:59:49. Saint George 2011
Praire Spirit 50 mile winner 7:36:30 2013
I accidentally ran 100 miles in November 2013. it was hard. I threw up a lot. decided to do a better job next time
I did it again on purpose October 2014--Heartland 100 winner and CR 17:38:37
Heartland 50 winner May 2014
Psycho Wyco 50k winner February 2012
Short-Term Running Goals: Run enough to hold off the middle-age spread
Long-Term Running Goals:
Sub 3 hour marathon--SOMEDAY! Done!
New long term goal: ....run enough to feel kinda like I did when I was fit
Personal: I was a single mom. Two times over. We all survived, despite the fact that I make atrocious decisions. Then, I met a man I didn't deserve. And he loves me so much. And I love him. We lived in sin and bought a house for two years then hired a judge and officially got married(to our great delight and also the delight of our mothers), then a month later he was diagnosed with cancer. Well we survived all that and he's 100% fine now. But, we're really out of shape and really busy with kids and jobs and running just isn't my priority and there's so many other layers to all of it, but I'm running anyway. This is my failure blog now. Just to log that one run a week if I snag it.
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| | Okay it's for real now. Now there's money involved. This conundrum of how to run with a new baby and no help is solved. I was just gonna wait for stroller season and had kinda given up. Well the Y lets baby be in kid zone 30ish minutes. And I start back to work shortly and am allowed to be in a jumpsuit for the first few hours. Work laps coming soon, as many as allowed by the 911 gods.
So today my incredibly out of shape self ran 3.2 miles on the mill, then put Val in the front carrier and did stair laps. The downtown Y has 4 flights in a row all the way to the top. I was hurting by the 5th lap. Not sure how many I did--til my legs quivered and I was well over "threshold".
Will be interesting to see how this training works out...
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| | 3 on the treddy at the Y until baby V's kid zone time was up. I am sore from those stairs yesterday. Val's dad decided to come visit her a little while in the afternoon, so I had a little time to run laps around Vanessa's school until she got out. All miles at my 100 mile race pace.
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| | treddy during my 30 minute kid zone allotment. Quads are still smashed from the stairs two days ago. Can't wait for stroller season when I can run more than 30 minutes because I feel good. Will start incorporating tabata--type workouts at home to work on general fitness. I keep thinking it will all come together somehow and let me run some type of decent race eventually. I think it will soon end up where my laps at work are easy days and my 30 minutes on the treddy on off days will just be balls out running hard. For now it's all just easy running to get back any kind of a base. I am in dismal shape.
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| | got my 30 minute allotment
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| | 9 work laps at the beginning of shift before the call gods struck. Better than nothing.
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| | broke up my 30 on the treddy with some varying paces
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| | got my 30 minutes on the Y treddy
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| | 25 loops at 6am at post 4. Felt great!
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| | 25 post 4 loops
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| | wet and rainy post 4 laps
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| | 30 minutes on the Y treddy. I'm working my way to 50 mile race pace
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| | sick. Could barely take care of baby, never mind running
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| | better, but work started with a bang and stayed busy, so no post 4 laps
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| | finally! Post 4 laps. Watched Baylor lose and blow my bracket
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| | 30 minute treddy allotment. Big news--I'm comfortably running sub 9s. Officially back to pre-pregnancy weight. I feel like for an old fart with a 3 month old that's decent.
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| | pushed my luck and went 34 minutes on the treddy. Kid zone didn't say anything or give me dirty looks. Watched SFA almost beat Notre Dame. Might've been a few fist pumps involved.
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| | post 4 laps. Nice n chilly
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| | first call as soon as I walked in the door at 0554 and it never stopped. No post 4 laps today. :(
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| | once again took 34 minutes instead of 30 on the Y treadmill and didn't get in trouble
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| | between taking Nessa to school and back, trip to Costco, and grocery shopping, Val had enough of the car seat so no trip to the Y. I was tired anyway because she hasn't slept well for four nights now. Lots of laundry and housecleaning. So no run.:(
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| | Only made it 9 laps before the calls started. Trying to run consistently is turning into a huge challenge.
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| | post 4 laps. Did 9 strides in the last two miles to mix it up a bit.
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| | woke up to....a snowstorm? Huh? Drove through 3 inches of fresh snow to work and never had a chance to run laps, although I had packed shorts and a t- shirt to run in....maybe I should check the forecast more often. Anyways, by 5pm most of it had melted and it was warming and sunny. Good ol Kansas, where you hang your parka next to your swimsuit.
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| | treddy. 10 minute warm up. 10 x 1 min on/1 min off at 6:40 pace
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| | post 4 loops. Cut short because the fun started.
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