| 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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| | No run, spent as much of the day and night as possible in bed. I don't want this crud to turn into pneumonia like it did last year. I actually do feel better having forced myself into inactivity. Hopefully this does the trick and I can run a few easy ones tomorrow and be back at some workouts by the end of the week.
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| | nice n easy. 4.5 outside, 2.5 inside. hack. wheeze.
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| | easy. still under the weather
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| | ez. I hate colds!
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| | 8:20 pace in a light rain. Felt somewhat decent for the first time this week. Hopefully feel good enough to run hard tomorrow finally!
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| | 7:38 pace after work with Kyle in the Kingman hills in mud mud mud! I was an inch taller most of the run and had some might heavy shoes. I felt like I was out of shape today--was totally terrible running uphill. Hopefully as I finish recovering from the crud I can get out on a hilly run that is a little better. Today I was sorta dismayed, this was waaaay harder than it should have been.
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| | underwear. home treddy. sortuva desperate little recovery run squeeze.
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| | Definitely needed a break from packing and moving prep. Ran 9 easy then drove to Cessna stadium and hauled myself up the bleachers 30 times. Stopped for a half mile jog at set 12 and at set 20 and cooled down half a mile. Garmin measured 5 total. Those bleachers are long steps for my short legs, it was a heckuva workout. At the end I was doing the Kilian Jornet hands on quads thing and it helped...my legs were shaking and burning! | |
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| | Around the hood with no watch, pace kept getting brisker. Legs were a little tight at first but nothing as bad as I was expecting. | |
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| | 4am. 2 miles of work loops and 25 minutes of EMS crossfit with focus on core before the calls started coming again
afternoon: 8 on home treddy. slow progression from 9:13 to 7:30 pace. at least it got me pushing buttons. It was tight, left myself 10 minutes to shower, get ready for work, pack Vanessa's bag, and get to school to pick her up. I made it.
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| | am. Nice lull at work. Got in 6 at 7:56 pace in circles around the post plus 25 minutes of ems crossfit. Pm. East Y treddy. 9 at 6:49 ap .5 warmup 8:34 2.5 up 7:30 5 down from 6:22 to 6:07 1 flat 6:40 Didn't feel great on 4 hours of sleep, but legs and lungs felt sturdy and reliable | |
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| | Moved yesterday, then had a date night. It was fun! Today was unpacking and it sorta wore me out. Got on my home treddy in its new location in the living room behind a couch... 20 minute warm up, 10 x 1 min on/off going in increments from 5:56 to 5:27, cooldown to 6 and then hopped off for the promised Christmas decorating with Nessa. Seems to make her feel happy about the new pad! | |
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| | Didn't mind temps in the 30s but just didn't have it in me for 30mph winds. Since I was wimping out, I arrived at the East Y treadmill determined to run long and hard. Did a slowjoe wave run, alternating between 7:03 and 6:35 pace. Every other 2 mile set I raised it to 1% incline but kept it flat for the last 4 as incentive to slug it out when my legs started to fatigue. 6:48 ap.
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| | 8:44. Zombie run | |
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| | 7:38 ap. This run was cool! When I parked at the school and started it was still and cold, then a little whisper of sleet started. Next thing you know it was full on wintery dermabrasion mix and I had stinging face, then it faded inti beautiful blizzardy huge, soft snowflakes, and then back to wintery mix, and then it gradually stopped, and all was still again as I got back to my car. So fun! | |
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| | Plans change, had to move long run to tomorrow. 6 ez on the home treddy then 3.5 ez with the crew at our Christmas light run. It was fun!! | |
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| | 29 degrees but no wind. Ran free...no watch. First hour was with Nancy whih was great. ..needed the accountability to get out the door and start. I ran with no fuel and definitely felt the beginning of depletion for a while but the feeling seemed to pass. The point of this run was time on feet and to get my body into good ol fat metabolism anyway. Glad it's done, had to shower and curl up under blankets after and I'm still in popsicle mode. | |
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| | no watch. made it out of bed in time for an afternoon jaunt. Last set of back to back long runs for this training cycle. Legs were a little tight at first but loosened up and finished the last few miles hard.
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| | Treadmill hills. After this weekend I am finally off work for a week!! However, it got off to a tired start. I got off this morning and picked Vanessa up from Mom's house then took her home and tried to sleep. No way, miss chatterbox wasn't having that. By the time we rolled into the Y, I decided to tone down the workout some. Sleep deprivation sucks the life out of my motivation to run hard! 1 wu 8:34 2 x (.5@6%,.5@12%, 1@-2%) with .5 jog between then one more half-sized repeat and one mile cooldown. Good enough for today! | |
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| | Ez at the East Y. Glad to get something in before a very full day. | |
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| | Home treddy fun. My body knows I'm off this week and went into hibernation mode. Santa came to our apartment last night and I spent all morning sitting like a lump and watching Nessa play with her new stuff. Then I took a nap. Finally, I had to make myself do it, although I felt like a slug dragging onto the treadmill. Nessa was darling and entertained me the whole time with singing, dancing, cheering, and wild kratts on netflix.
20 minute warm up. 3 x (5 x 1 min on/off) with 4 to 5 minute jogs in between. 4th set was 90 secs on/60 off, 5th set was 2 min on/1 min off, then 2 more of 1/1 sets and cooldown to 16. speeds were from 6:00 to 7:30 for "on". This really wasn't speedwork, just a long fartlek to practice changing gears throughout varying terrain in a long race.
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| | Ez on the home mill. Merry Christmas! | |
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| | 7:49 pace. First 21 miles with great friends! Scp and along the river. Felt great! Last long run before taper is now in the books. | |
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| | Ez on the home treddy | |
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| | To the East Y with Nessa today. 2 mile warmup, 5k in 19:20, cooldown to 7. 100 floors NES. Little mixed bag taper workout. | |
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| | Ez on the home treddy between shifts. Sleep was sketchy because school is till out. I was more or less coherent with miss chatterbox today and gave up laying in bed at noon. That week of sleeping every night spoiled me. Back to the grind. | |
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| | 6:43 ap. Last treddy hill workout. .5 warmup 8:34 2.5 up 4% 7:24 pace 5 down -2% 6:18, 6:15, 6:11, 6:07, 5:56 Felt great!! Happy New Year! | |
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