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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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Mon, Sep 26, 2011
Total Distance
8.00

1 mile solo at 8:00 then met up with Adam for 7 more at 7:25 AP including 2 in the middle at MP 6:44, 6:46.  overall a little faster run than I was planning but we were busy talking and it was a beautiful day so the pace just kinda got away.  2 more days of some nice slow running after my might shifts and then Thursday I will be on the plane and Utah bound!  Im excited now!  sub-3.  Lets do this!

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Comments
From Burt on Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 17:05:20 from 68.14.209.26

Oh boy...!

From Lily on Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 17:07:29 from 67.199.178.210

Go April! I wish I could confidently say that. I hurt, I don't know what's going to happen to me that day. Eeek!

From JulieC on Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 18:17:44 from 67.41.188.1

serriouslyyyyyy!!!!!! let's do this thing already :D. see you soon. looks like we both got carried away today....with our running buddies :D. at least we are on the same page once again.

From Sasha Pachev on Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 20:18:33 from 192.168.1.1

It is a cautiously positive sign that you ran 7:25 pace without noticing it. Either Adam had the ability to hypnotize you into believing that the pace was effortless, or you were just sufficiently fit for this pace to be effortless. Let's hope you will not need any luck in St. George (Thinking of Arturo Barrios' "I train for good luck", I do not wish runners good luck anymore).

From Kelli on Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:15:08 from 71.219.67.175

You will do great April. And you will love the course!

From Jody on Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 22:16:00 from 75.141.131.35

Great run! I cannot wait to hear what you think of the course and I am interested to have you compare it to Houston on a difficulty scale. Nothing will compare to the scenery of SG.

From Sasha Pachev on Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 22:23:02 from 192.168.1.1

I am going to guess about 4 minutes faster than Houston. This assumes you know how to run both.

From JulieC on Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 22:34:34 from 67.41.188.193

BUT that was APRIL in January so now it will be about 16 plus minutes faster :D.

From seeaprilrun on Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 22:57:25 from 205.172.12.230

I think Houston is pretty flat--probably the type of course you would want to go for dead-even splits on--just lock into a rythm and go. The only problem is you are using the same set of muscles constantly the whole race...and they fatigue. I think courses that roll some run faster than a super flat course, because I like that change in pace and muscle usage.

From Sasha Pachev on Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 23:05:33 from 192.168.1.1

April:

No. The fact that you always lose more time gaining N feet of elevation than you gain by dropping the same N feet of elevation more than makes up for the break for different muscle groups. You can see that if you look at where world records are set. I am too lazy to look the exact numbers up, but from what I recall the last 5 men world records were set in Berlin. The current women world record is set in London. Those courses are very flat, with Berlin being flatter. Boston needs a strong tail wind to produce a world-record time in spite of its net elevation drop.

From JulieC on Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 23:09:37 from 67.41.188.193

Sasha (and I just heard other runners talking) how come they don't let net drop marathons qualify for the olympics? I heard all the marathons in Utah can't be used to qualify because of the elevation drops. Just wondering. Thanks for always letting us now how it REALLY IS. : D.

From JulieC on Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 23:10:53 from 67.41.188.193

I didn't mean for the sprint comment to be on your blog April although I am sure you will have one!!

From seeaprilrun on Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 23:12:32 from 205.172.12.230

It must all be in my head..I guess mentally I just like something to feel different in my legs when I'm running so long! I'm with Julie--why can't net downhills count now when they used to? Why does Boston count for OTQ although it has a net drop and other courses don't?

From Sasha Pachev on Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 14:22:08 from 192.168.1.1

April, Julie - a long story. Historically St. George has been producing qualifiers that hardly ever ran anywhere close to their qualifying time in the Trials. After 2008 trials USATF had some internal politics that pushed for "elite must be true elite", which resulted in the standard for men becoming 2:19 instead of 2:22, and the removal of all point-to-point and net drop courses. Then they realized that was a bit extreme because it excluded Boston and New York, and they made the adjustment to allow point to point and moderate elevation drop course.

Overall, the change was good in some ways and bad in others. On one hand, if you are going to the Olympic trials, you should have at least a remote shot at making the team. Somebody who runs 2:22:00 in St. George has a statistical zero probability. In fact, 2:19:00 in St. George is still a statistical zero. 2:19:00 on a loop course, in fact, is still very close to the statistical zero, but if they said you have to run under 2:15 they would have 20 people there maybe, and they want about 100 or so to make it look more official.

On the other hand, the removal of a standard of qualification that was attainable by a runner without much talent who made up for the lack thereof by hard work has had some negative impact, I think. This cut off a number of high school coaches and other community leaders that served as local role models. While I agree that raising the Olympic trials qualifier standard was necessary, it should have come with the introduction of other more attainable standards of achievement to encourage the runners stuck in the no man's land between the Boston qualifier and the Trials qualifier to progress.

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