| 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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| | Despite a busy night at work on a shift exchange, I felt pretty energetic this morning and my daughter was at a slumber party, so I took advantage of the opportunity to run outside. 18 soaking wet easy miles in a cool and steady 60 degree rain, lots of puddle running. no watch--felt great and it was fun! legs aren't sore from yesterday but I skipped the end-of-long-run-tempo this week since I had all the faster stuff yesterday. | |
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| | am: 8 ez home mill afternoon: 70 minutes core and weights at the Y pm: 5 ez around the post before walking in the door at work. busy with my girl in between all of that. everyone have a great night! | |
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78 degrees. 87% humidity. muggy, but tolerable since it was overcast. speed combo workout today, I think these are incredibly beneficial to me at this point. Legs were a little heavy at first from yesterday's core workout so I wondered how this would go, but it wasn't too bad.
20 minute warm up
8 x (50 seconds hard, 90 seconds easy). hard paces were 6:05, 5:37, 5:29, 5:18, 5:34, 5:15, 5:29, 5:33
5 minute jog
2 mile tempo 6:22, 6:25
cooldown to a total of 10 | |
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| | Hills in the heat. Why not? Shelby invited, and I went for it. Vanessa was awesome, she sat at the base of the hill in her chair and played with her toys and my phone, so she was of course rewarded with a trip to the frozen yogurt shop after. 2 mile warm-up, then 14 repeats up the hill, jogging down for recovery. The hill is .2 miles long. 2 mile cooldown afterward. Ran the repeats at a moderate pace, around 6:20-6:30, not bad for uphill, it starts out about 2% grade and gets steeper and steeper as you go up, probably 8-10% grade if I had to guess. It was only 86 degrees, not bad for July in Kansas! Legs felt pretty good. | |
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am. Copied Jake K's 3-2-1 workout today to pass time on the treadmill. I slept for 9, uninterrupted hours last night so I felt AMAZING today. Warmed up 2 miles ez, then 3 miles at 6:31 pace, .5 jog, 2 miles at 6:15, 6:11, .5 jog, 1 mile at 5:56, .5 cooldown--then blasted through as many weights as possible in 25 minutes while Vanessa finished up Funfit. I felt awesome, in fact this workout felt way too easy, I think I dogged it a little but I set the paces at what I estimated would be reasonable for hmp, 10k, and 5k pace. Looking forward to a shakeout jog tonight--laps around the track with strollers while our kids play with my Mommy running friends! My weight is at an all-time low but I feel really great!
pm. met up with April R at the Collegiate track. We settled her 10 month old into the stroller, got our little girls together playing in the bleachers, and took out in 90 degrees to run circles. The kids were great, we got away with 7 easy miles and took them all out for frozen yogurt afterward. I got to re-live the glory days pushing the stroller. | |
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am. 8 ez on the mill and 25 minutes of core while Vanessa did funfit. May squeeze in 5 by the post before work tonight, time for the long work weekend. yuck.
pm. 5 through the 217, nice and slow, 91 degrees with 77 dewpoint. pretty warm and sticky! | |
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| | Got some easy miles in here and there while watching my comrades race. Off to bed, Kingman hills after work tomorrow morning! | |
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