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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
Mon, Apr 05, 2010
Total Distance
4.87

Ran for about 36 minutes easy--Garmin was dead so just checked the time coming in and going out and did mapmyrun.  This makes 7:39 pace.  Whoops.  Really I was trying to take it easy.  The tribe spaghetti dinner was pretty crazy last night.  Everyone had signed a good luck card for me and they gave me a goody bag with gu, motrin, and other miscellaneous runner items and a pair of nice black sleeves.  I'm quite touched and a little embarassed.    Seems like too much fuss over me.  Wow!  They are too nice!  5 days.

Nike Air Pegasus Miles: 4.87
Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Burt on Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 13:49:27 from 206.19.214.144

You're like, a big deal.

From SlowJoe on Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 14:01:08 from 131.59.200.80

What a good sign that you try and run nice and slow and almost go MP. How do the winds look?

From CookieLegs on Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 14:06:48 from 155.101.152.105

Nice - looks like you are just itching to go marathon pace!!

From Samantha Dean-Howard on Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 18:27:51 from 90.195.99.202

cool Sounds like a great goody bag to me sleeves too :)

From Tracy on Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 18:30:22 from 173.23.75.96

You're gonna kill this race.

From JulieC on Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 19:58:44 from 207.224.202.196

why not in April we all FOCUS on APRIL? !!!!!! Sounds great to me. This is YOUR week girl!! GO FOR IT :DDDDD

From seeaprilrun on Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 20:10:21 from 205.172.12.229

Burt--that's just embarassing, good thing I'm not famous

Joe--I have been checking and re-checking the forecast, and no mention of winds or breeze that day, oh PLEASE I hope that is really true because this is an out-and-back course, starting south--and the south wind is not my friend

Adele--I am itching and yet terrified that I can't really do it for 26.2 miles

Sam--nice black sleeves that make my arms look skinny :)

Tracy--I have to kill or be killed...

Julie--oh the nerves...:)

From SlowJoe on Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 20:36:28 from 184.79.24.255

Hey I didn't know your race was in the "other" Abilene. Anyway I had to look - do you ever look at the detail on the 10-day forecast on weather.com? You can click on the individual day and sometimes you have to hit refresh for some reason after that, but it guesses the max wind for "day" and "night" for that date. I've noticed that when I want data for a morning run, the wind prediction from the night before is more accurate since the "day" wind is usually the max in that afternoon. So it's saying South at 7 mph for Friday night and SSE @ 15 mph for the day on Saturday but I wouldn't expect that 15 until the afternoon. So my guess is you'll have your south wind but only 5-10 mph. Obviously it's only Monday so who knows, but it's not looking too bad now.

From CookieLegs on Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 20:59:13 from 71.36.82.238

April, YOU CAN DO IT FOR 26.2!! If the weather & wind cooperates, you will rock!!! If you do have a strong wind from the south, just go to Plan B - start at a little slower pace, then after a few miles you'll be passing ALL the people who went out too fast!

From Smooth on Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 22:17:16 from 174.23.251.49

You so totally deserve the fuss over from the tribe! Sweet friends!

VERY NICE run sans Garmin, feeling AWESOME and keeping those speedy legs sharp!

You're gonna DO FANTASTIC on Sat. May the running gods and tail wind be with you!

From seeaprilrun on Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 08:45:12 from 68.103.242.46

Joe--no I didn't know about that! Now I have a website to stalk--thanks! Yeah haha this is a little marathon in "little Abilene"!

From ChrisM on Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 09:22:10 from 130.88.123.4

Cool --nice support from the tribe!

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