Barb T.

November 05, 2024

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Location:

Dallas,Tx,USA

Member Since:

Nov 09, 2009

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

San Diego Marathon finisher 2004, 2005

San Francisco Marathon finisher 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012

Santa Rosa Marathon 2013, 2015

PR Santa Rosa Marathon 2013  4:01:13

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

2010 San Francisco Marathon  DONE  4:05:36

2011 Boston Marathon DONE 4:21

2011 San Francisco Marathon DONE

2012 San Francisco Marathon BREAK 4 hour barrier...not quite 4:02:35

2014 Santa Rosa Marathon 4:01:13

2014 Break 4 hour barrier in the Boston Marathon 2014!

Long-Term Running Goals:

Qualify for the Boston Marathon

DONE 4:05:36 San Francisco Marathon 2010

Qualify for Boston again (now need 4:10:00) DONE!!!  Ran a 4:01:13 in the Santa Rosa Marathon August 25, 2013!

Break 4 hour barrier... 2015???

Personal:

I'm married to a wonderful Dutch husband and have 2 girls.  I live and work in West Africa and am home in the states every summer and run the San Francisco Marathon.

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Hoka 1 Lifetime Miles: 16.47
Brooks Ghost Lifetime Miles: 35.21
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.780.000.000.004.78

Took it easy today.  Yesterday a neighbor brought over one of my favorite African dishes, rice with leaf sauce.  The leaf sauce is cooked with palm oil so as you might imagine it's rather heavy on the stomach.  So, I ran 'heavy' today.  The sauce sure was good, though!  Also got a bit of a surprise...my husband takes the kids to school in the morning, and I go and run.  Well, 30 minutes later he returned with the 2 kids!  They start school an hour and a half later on Wednesday's.  Ugh.  New schedule.  Change.  I had to take the girls to school after I ran.  On the way I asked my middle schooler (her 3rd day of middle school ever...6th grade) so what time does your schedule say you start?  OH NO!, she replied.  I started at 8am! (an hour and 10 minutes earlier).  There are guards outside the school gates and where you enter into elementary school is different than middle school and my husband didn't think to ask the middle school guard what time school started over there.  So, I had to explain to the school what happened so that my middle schooler could enter school an hour and 20 minutes late.  They showed us grace and my middle schooler was so relieved.  We're recovering....oh...yes...I did run this morning....

 It did rain AGAIN while running this morning, but at least this morning it was a slow drizzle.  these were the slow, palm oil saucy, splits:  11:08, 10:58, 11:19, 10:47, 10:44  AP:  11:00

Brooks Adren GTS Summer 2010 Miles: 4.78
Comments
From Snoqualmie on Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 11:48:21 from 24.18.192.33

Palm oil gooooood... :)

So here's another thing we have in common: middle school age daughter -- only mine is starting 8th grade. What a crazy morning! Time to laugh at life and move on.

So are you running in warm rain then? I hate that, but we actually get *very little* rain in the summer here. Now it's starting up, but the temps are down low enough that you can put on a nylon shell and be relatively dry and not too hot.

From Barb on Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:15:58 from 81.85.252.242

Yes, we do have warm rain here. Even running in the rain after 5 miles I'll loose about 2 pounds of water/sweat. Such is life just off the equator. So, you have a middle schooler too...my MS is the oldest and my youngest just started 4th grade. They sure are lots of fun! Last night was the battle of enormous spiders. After not living in our house for about 11 months, the spiders have flourished. Granted they are 'friendly' spiders in that they eat mosquitoes which helps us to not get malaria. But, they were a bit too much for the girls last night. My husband manned the bug spray while I got his big sandal and started swinging away! Needless to say, 3 LARGE spiders are no longer with us and we somehow managed to get some sleep last night!

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