| 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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| | The fog was thick today and our run was dary and eery! Very cool! I showed up a little early and ran 1.69 at 8:46 AP to warm-up since I feel like a rickety old lady in them mornings and had a feeling the guys would take off at a fast clip. I then hooked up with Adam and Eddy and we ran 16.13 through the county on varied terrain. We ran hills on dirt roads for a few miles before turning onto the asphalt for the last two and picking it up for a fast finish. Last two miles were 6:58, 6:52, which I was happy with after tiring our legs on the hills. 7:32 AP for the 16. Afterwards me and Eddy ran 2 at 8:26 AP to cool down. It was a good morning run and I will be hooking up with Adam more often since I have finally found a runner fairly close to my rural neck of the woods! | |
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am. 8 at 8:31 AP on the treadmill. I took yesterday off from running and did lots of corework and hip/knee strengthening exercises. While still un-motrined I was able to hop down the stairs pretty quick this morning on my knees. They are far from 100%, but are none the worse for the wear-and-tear last week and I daresay better. More super easy in the stroller after Vanessa wakes from her nap. I am saving some steam for a workout tomorrow. afternoon. 5.75 at 8:30 pace with my girl in the stroller. Of course we stopped for 20 minutes at mile 5 when we encountered a playground
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| | 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
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| | 8:24 AP. Talk about dead-legged and sluggish. I plodded my way through, exploring the dirt roads east of here and found some decent rollers to run on. The south wind was quite feisty by the time I ran in the afternoon. I was planning on another threshold/speed session tomorrow but if my legs are still dead I will probably can it for another easy day. Part of me wants to take an easy week, but part of me says there is only 3 1/2 weeks to taper time so just barge on through and get it done. This, I see, may be the folly of running marathons so close together. | |
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| | 7:40 AP. 23mph winds today. Freakin' Kansas. Anyways, after secretly fighting 3 weeks of increasing sore throat, nightly coughing fits, and fatigue that finally got downright overwhelming, I gave in and went to the doctor. Hopefully after these antibiotics I'll be right as rain, because antibiotics tend to make me feel horrible. My knees, however, felt better today than they have in weeks! I did more of the strengthening exercises and abripperX afterward. | |
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