| 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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| | nice n slow, no watch, in anticipation of running very little this weekend
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| | got up in time to park by Vanessa's school and roll out an easy one
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| | downtown Y. 3.5 at 6:40 pace on the treddy and then I just couldn't hack the mill, jumped off and ran 39 laps on the indoor track(6.5 miles) with every other lap fast. cooled down 2 easy on a different treadmill, I could see myself running in some mirrors on the backstretch and it was not good to see. not good at all!!
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| | 7:25 pace. actually wore a watch and actually felt light and springy for the first time in a while
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| | ez by Vanessa's school. 80 degrees and windy! not used to the heat but loved the sunshine. I may have barely got ahead of the 9:00 girl
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| | 60 and windy. no watch. drove to scp and ran 7 pretty brisk and then met up with Roger and ran 4 slow, felt kinda lightheaded so stopped then. I really meant to do more today but the lightheaded feeling isn't good.
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| | slow in a very windy 87 degrees
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| | slow in the headwind, let it fly with the tailwind
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| | 6:40 pace in the treddy. felt ez today, maybe I have a little sustainable speed yet. taper time?
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| | very ez in the wind
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Boston Marathon (26.2 Miles) 03:28:54 | | I met with Julie and we had an incredible week!! Wish we could see each other motre than every few years. We ran Boston together. It's been a tough year for both of us. We celebrated. We high-fived, yelled, fist-pumped, threw our hands in the air, and ran because we could. Then we held hands and crossed the finish together, and then we cried together. There is nothing in the world like joining together as women and telling our stories, and laughing and crying and running epic-boston-year together. We dorked out and wore matching outfits too. "Go blue times two", "go twins". Great day!! And then we ended up without a ride to our hotel after, with no phone, no id, no money. Thank you Tom Cali from Penn State and your Porsche with the top down. We had good luck with meeting great people! I'm ready to run hard and train again. Thank you FRB. I'm humbled. We passed a guy at mile 23 crutching away on one leg. So much to take in from last years tragedy and stories of strength and grace. Julie is a Rock Star. She was hurting from an injury and pulled through and ran Boston with me anyway. I LOVE YOU JULIE!! Thank you Lord for letting me live to run another day. I was hit by a car exactly one year ago April 22. Have a great day bloggers!! | |
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| | aorund Cape Cod by Julie's cousin's house. neat place! The first half mile was the usual ow-ouch-ow mince in the quads and then things loosened up. Ran slow. Really slow.
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| | pouring rain and I'm being a wimp, so 6 ez on the treddy at the east Y exept the last mile was 6:40. 10 minutes never-ending stairs. 20 minute in the weight room.
Heartland 50 May 10th.
salad, lots of salad
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| | No watch, on the singletrack at Miller's Meadow. Forgot how much I loved running there!!
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| | Visited Miller's Meadow and the singletrack again. The 30mph wind and 86 degree noon heat beat me up a bit--took it very easy. I visited the weight room at the Y afterward.
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| | needed to rest my running legs but needed to burn calories.
turbokick for one hour at the Y. I looked silly most of the time--whenever I would finally get a pattern down they would change it up and then I would be playing new-kid in the back again trying to follow. still fun!
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| | ez trot in the 30mph wind by Vanessa's school
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| | Yesterday I puked all day with a nasty stomach bug so no run. Today, once I held a banana down I went for a very slow, windy run, followed by 20 sluggish minutes of half-hearted weights.
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