| 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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| Blue Avants Miles: 17.00 | Pink Nike Avant Miles: 23.00 | Lunarfly Miles: 15.54 |
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Inspire 8k (5 Miles) 00:34:25, Place overall: 3 | | Time was lame but I am happy about the race--when I saw the trees bowing in the wind I knew that this was not a fast race kind of day, so decided to try and run a tactical race and maybe, just maybe, make top 3. The race was two loops of the same route which on a non-blustery today was an awesome course and I think potentially very fast. The south wind was 21mph gusting to 30mph and it blew you off the road if you were standing still. Fortunately the finish was with the tailwind! I jogged slow with Eddy 2.5 miles and then we went and hung out at the starting line jogging and place and bouncing around, the usual. I hung back 4 or 5 rows and was immediately intimidated by the large group of skinny women with six packs. I started off comfortable in the first mile and worked my way into a nice rythm going north and then whipped to the south part. I just tried to stay relaxed and comfortable and keep my turnover high rather than try to outstride the wind. I tucked in behind people, even slowing the pace to draft rather than waste energy fighting the wind solo. We turned north again and ran past the start for loop two and I was comfortable and feeling very good with such a conservative start, so while I still had the wind at my back I stepped it up and started passing people. When we turned south into the wind again I had the 3rd place girl in view. I caught up to her, drafted briefly, then surged ahead and caught the next guy. I ended up slowing the pace to draft again and not fight the wind alone and was a little nervous about the girl I had passed so as soon as we popped out of the headwind and ran in the crosswind before turning north I took off. I had lots of gas in the tank and just floored it all the way to the finish. I passed a few people and never got caught by the girl. It was nice to feel that good and ready to crank at the end of a race. In some ways I kind of dogged this race because I felt awesome afterward and still feel good but I ran it purely as a tactical race rather than running for time so it was really a different way of running a race. Second place was only about 45 seconds ahead so I wonder if I had fought the wind and pushed it, maybe I would've caught her but in my experience wind will suck the life out of you. Turkey Trot 10-miler in two weeks and I am eager to run hard and PR!
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| | 7:53 AP. Kansas City. Nice morning run while my friends slept in. Then I did some serious shopping. |
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| | 7:43 AP. Tired, but I attempted the workout anyway. 3x1.5 at tempo pace. I did it on the rolling dirt roads in the wind so my times don't rock, but I am learning to run by feel and listen to my body so I did the tempo effort. two mile warm up 9:05, 9:02(obviously not feeling it today) 1.5 in 10:22 (6:54 pace) .5 in 3:58 1.51 in 10:19(6:49 ace) .5 in 4:03 1.51 in 10:28(6:55 pace) cool down
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| | 7:59 AP--treadmill! It is fixed! Crazy crazy day and crazy week, no time at all--I was lucky to squeeze this in but I didn't want to roll a doughnut today. | |
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am.--6 in 8:30 AP on the treadmill. I was tempted to speed it up to get it over with but I have a 13-miler tomorrow at a rather brisk pace scheduled so I need to keep it easy. I will probably squeeze a few more in this evening. My treadmill got fixed just in the nick of time.
pm-- 4.5 8:34 AP on the treadmill
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| Blue Avants Miles: 4.50 | Lunarfly Miles: 6.00 |
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| | 7:28 AP. It was supposed to be 13 at 7:30 pace but I felt good and didn't want to get lost on the new course so I hung off Eddy's shoulder and ran 15. It was in the 30's and felt freaking fantastic. I love the fall! Started out easy and then steadily dropped the pace and rocked steady. I felt aerobically comfortable the whole time but legs were getting slightly tired at the end. Ran without fuel or water and energy levels were fine. Splits 8:25, 7:45, 7:30, 7:22, 7:18, 7:21, 7:21, 7:22, 7:24, 7:18, 7:27, 7:25, 7:21, 7:11, 7:15 |
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| Blue Avants Miles: 17.00 | Pink Nike Avant Miles: 23.00 | Lunarfly Miles: 15.54 |
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