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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.  
Somehow that matters and I want that run recorded.

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Mizuno Waverider 12 Lifetime Miles: 333.61
Nike Air Pegasus Lifetime Miles: 507.20
Pink Pegs Lifetime Miles: 595.58
Pink Nike Avant Lifetime Miles: 624.04
Crappy Asics Lifetime Miles: 146.72
Adidas Adizero Mana Lifetime Miles: 113.32
Blue Avants Lifetime Miles: 653.33
Crocs Lifetime Miles: 18.08
Lunarfly Lifetime Miles: 468.47
Total Distance
11.00

Speedwork day!  Up at 4am, coffee, generic nutri-grain bar, in the car and off to the high school track.  My owl did not show up today.  There was a pretty stout south wind--I tried not to let it get to me too much on the backstretch.  

2 mile warm up slow on the track. 

400--1:31  400 recovery

800--3:06  400 recovery

1200--4:35 400 recovery and a drink of water

1200--4:32 400 recovery

800--3:00 400 recovery

400--1:22  400 recovery

Then jogged through town 3.5 miles at 7:57 AP

pm: one measly mile at 8:34 pace on the treadmill to warm up before doing the p90x fit test with David, Brandon, and Jesse.  They took "before" pictures.  I will probably have sore quads and biceps tomorrow from doing the wall sit and the curls and the pushups to failure but it was something cool and different to do.

pullups: Ahem, 1, and I struggled mightily for it

girly push-ups:  52

in and outs: 55

curls: 40

wall sit:  4 minutes 15 seconds

2 minutes of jumping jacks to measure maximum heart rate--didn't even get to marathon pace heart rate I don't think

vertical jump: 14 inches--I'm thinking we didn't do this right with the step forward--it gave to much helpful momentum

touched my toes, but nothing further



Pink Nike Avant Miles: 1.00Blue Avants Miles: 10.00
Weight: 0.00
Comments
From CookieLegs on Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 09:48:21 from 71.36.75.53

That's a nicely structured speed workout! Especially at 4 am!!

From allie on Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:04:22 from 174.23.226.74

great workout april. way to get out at 4 am, too.

From SlowJoe on Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:58:24 from 84.11.148.246

Way to keep that 6:00 pace up through the 1200s - that's tough, especially with a bit of wind. I like the workout.

From Eric Day on Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:36:48 from 189.192.34.209

Hi April. I see you are still doing awesome in your workouts. Congrats on such solid training. Keep the great work up.

Back to running, well, jogging is more like it...

From JulieC on Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 20:39:12 from 70.56.110.11

I love your speedy finish!! All of your splits looked great actually!! : D 4am!!!

From JulieC on Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 02:24:13 from 168.103.184.207

what are "ins and outs"? How do you measure the curls? Way to be fit!!

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