catherine's running efforts

May 05, 2024

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Location:

Provo,UT,USA

Member Since:

May 06, 2009

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

5K: 21:01, 9/11/2010

10K: 43:49, 7/24/2010

15K: 1:21:00, 5/22/2010

Half-marathon: 1:41:41, 8/28/2010

Short-Term Running Goals:

Now that I'm (almost for sure) done having all the babies, I'm working on building consistency and seeing how fast I can get in my old age. ;)

Long-Term Running Goals:

I'd like to be a healthy and relatively injury-free runner for the rest of my life.  

Personal:

I'm married to Eric (Faceless Ghost on the blog) and we have very active daughters and one dog. I have a PhD in sociology and demography, and I'm incredibly grateful to have work that is meaningful and that builds on my academic experience. I run because it makes me feel strong and it helps to keep the crazy away (there is a long history of abuse and mental illness in my extended family).

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Brooks Cascadia Lifetime Miles: 73.39
Saucony Kinvara Lifetime Miles: 372.79
Girly Altra Lifetime Miles: 366.08
Kinvara 3 Lifetime Miles: 175.92
NB Orange Lifetime Miles: 13.50
Total Distance
5.00

Ever since we had some chicken Jun made a couple (few?) weeks ago, Eric and I have been thinking about chicken. We had a bad experience with some chicken from Smiths a couple of years ago and hadn't bought it since (we're not huge meat eaters...or dinner eaters), but the chicken at Jun's house was just *so* good. So I got some at Costco (Costco=safe) and we've had it a couple of times. Eric made some tonight with a bunch of butter (sometimes I think he takes for granted being skinny), bread crumbs, and that garlic spread stuff (also from Costco) and it was awesome. But I went to the gym about 20 minutes after eating, and at 3 miles I got a crazy side ache. Usually I can head off a side ache by focusing on breathing in every two steps and out every two steps, but that didn't work. Then I remembered that someone had talked about this on the FRB and there was something about imagining that you're trying to blow up a balloon. Or something. But that didn't work either, and at about 3.18 I had to stop. But it went away pretty quickly and the rest of the run was uneventful. 

Boring story, I know. But that's how it went.  

Girly Altra Miles: 5.00
Weight: 0.00
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