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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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Pink Pegs Lifetime Miles: 595.58
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Adidas Adizero Mana Lifetime Miles: 113.32
Blue Avants Lifetime Miles: 653.33
Crocs Lifetime Miles: 18.08
Lunarfly Lifetime Miles: 468.47
Wed, Mar 02, 2011
Total Distance
9.65

7:19 AP.  It was windy and I was totally not feeling it today.  Workout was supposed to be 3 x2 miles at tempo pace with .5 brisk recoveries.  I plodded my two mile warm up and decided that I would just run fast for the tempo miles but wouldn't push too much.  I just... wasn't feeling it today.

2 mile warm up 8:32, 8:28

2 mile "tempo" 6:56, 7:04

.5 at 7:36 pace

2 mile tempo 6:43, 6:54

.5 at 7:35 pace

2 mile tempo 6:51, 6:45

.65 cooldown at 7:27 AP--I had to rush and get serious about getting to work


Weight: 0.00
Comments
From april27 on Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 18:46:36 from 99.188.251.180

I like your 'not feeling it' pace!

From SlowJoe on Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 18:54:32 from 184.79.24.255

Can you tell in your warmup if the workout is going to suck? I always know for sure if it's going to be bad, but can't tell if it's going to go really well or just ok. Of course with wind, every workout has some degree of suck.

Anyway, at least you got some training out of it and stuck to the plan!

From seeaprilrun on Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 19:04:59 from 72.205.227.203

April--maybe I should've farleked to get some turbo

Joe--I'm same as you, I can usually tell in the warm-up if it just ain't gonna happen(like today), but as far as knowing if it will go really well--those workouts are usually random but welcome surprises!

From Kelsey on Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 11:07:56 from 159.230.97.199

I have a weird training-to-race time ratio, meaning I really struggle to keep a certain pace during a training run but can kill it in a race (usually). So I may not be a good judge of a workout, but that looks like an awesome workout to me, especially with only a half mile recovery.

Well done, especially for one of those darn "blah" days. Hate those!

From Kelsey on Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 11:08:39 from 159.230.97.199

P.S. I really wish we lived near each other because we have very similar times (except you kill me on the marathon).

From seeaprilrun on Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 12:04:26 from 72.205.227.203

Kelsey I would about kill for your 5k times! Perhaps working on speed(yuck) will be my summer project!

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