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2011
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Location:

Farmington,UT,

Member Since:

Mar 27, 2011

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Age Division Winner

Running Accomplishments:

Lifetime PRs

10K - Des News 2005 38:23

10 mi - ? 2005 1:05:00

1/2 Marathon - Las Vegas 2001 1:25:20

Marathon - St George 2005 2:59:51

 Recent Races:

 Nike Women's Marathon

Reach the Beach Relay

Buffalo Run 25K



 

Short-Term Running Goals:

Have not seriously raced since 2005, but just run for fun while gettting over several injuries.  Goal is to get back my fitness and not get re-injured.  I am much older now and recovery takes a bit longer.  Goals for 2011, besides staying healthy:

Wasatch Back Relay

Top of Utah Half Aug 1:32

Reach the Beach Relay (Sept)

The Other Half marathon Oct 1: 30

 



Long-Term Running Goals:

I would love to do a 50 miler, plus get back to running a marathon in the 3 hr + range, but need to get running healthy again.

Personal:

Married with two grown boys.  One has embraced running and the other is a snowboard fanatic.  My profession, I am a computer analyst and geek.  After hours, I am a fitness nut who also enjoys reading and hanging out with my family.

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Ran 8.4 slow, slow, slow miles with my huz.  1:15.  Just enjoyed being outside.  Course was home-Centerville loop. 

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Decided to run from the office to West High and do 8x200.  Being that I am still getting back after ankle surgery, I have decided to start easy by throwing in strides or 200s a couple of times a week.  Hopefully, I can progress quickly to 400s then 800s.

Times for the 200s were MUCH slower than when I have done them in the past.  Avg 48 sec per 200.

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5th running day in a row and legs of lead. Decided to do a short easy run as I had a scheduled yoga class later. The first 2 miles up city creek were dog slow. Then my legs perked up and finished at a 7:30 pace!

Yoga class was great. Yoga for strength. Lots of planks again, handstands against the wall, and nice hip openers.

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Visited the PT today for my first eval prior to the gait training.  Found that my right hip/glute/adductor muscles are much weaker than on the right.  Ran for about 4 mins while the PT videoed me and he found also that I tend to run like I am on a tight rope, adductor dominant.  He then had me run to a metronome to keep cadence and videoed me again.  Wala, form cleaned up.

I will go 3/x per week for about 2.5 weeks and will run for about 30 mins on the treadmill there doing all sorts of gait training.  The kicker ... no running outside of PT until I am done. Yikes!

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45 mins elliptical.  6 running equiv.

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Went to PT "Gait Training" today and ran 4 miles in 30 mins on the mill while listening to some sort of beat to keep at 180 strikes per minute.  Appointement was at 7:00 am and I felt like I was getting a cold so it was hard to start this pace right off the bat.  Before long I got into a groove.  The PT videoed me at the slower strike per minute and then to the beat and showed me the difference,  slight difference but over the course of miles and mile of training it will make a huge difference in not getting hurt.

Also added more glute and abductor exercises to the mix.  Left feeling pretty worked over.

Did yoga later in the afternoon.  More of a stretching type which was needed!

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Big goose egg on any cardio today.  Was up sick all night so bagged it.  Definitely have a nasty cold, but that would have been doable.  I have not been eating any red meat and ate at Outback last night.  I was sick with stomach cramps until this morning.

I have a 2 hr yoga workshop this afternoon that I will gut thru.

Night Sleep Time: 9.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 9.00
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