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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
Wed, Mar 12, 2014
Total Distance
7.00

I'm gonna vent.  Working nights SUCKS!  Single motherhood SUCKS!  All done. Rant finished.  Exhausted.  Very busy and trying time at work all night, preceded by not-a-lot of sleep, then straight home to asthma baby, no school, and my phone blew up.  It blew up and blew up and blew up--texts, phone calls, much more than usual,and of course the needs of my child. by 11am I was nearly in tears, spent, tired, so tired-of-being-this-tired.  I play out these 24 and 36 hour stretches of sleeplessness once or twice every week. every freaking week!!  Guess I was just kidding--rant not quite over.  I did catch a break from noon until 3 and then got up and made coffee and dressed and bathed myself and my child and went and got toilet paper because we were out and called and argued with the electric company and finally, finally, got on the treadmill.  Bastille, I love Bastille.  Great band.  7 miles easy but inserted 5x45seconds/75 seconds off at 5:27 pace in the middle.  Another day down.  Yay!

Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Matt Schreiber on Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 22:13:55 from 66.17.102.185

I like Bastille, too. Good stuff. Way to kick Wednesday in the butt. :) How you fit runs in every day is above me.

From SlowJoe on Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 10:55:37 from 107.77.64.117

Yeah, when Danielle goes out of town for just 2-3 nights, and it's just me and the girls, everything falls apart including my running; I don't know how you do it. Same thing with the sleep - I've been on crazy stretches like that on deployments but with no kid responsibilities... Tough combo you have, for sure. Win the lotto and hire a nanny maybe? Anyway, keep it up... Just a few more weeks of hard training left.

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