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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
12.86
Girly Altra Miles: 3.10Kinvara 2 Miles: 8.06Saucony Kinvara Miles: 1.20
Weight: 0.00
Total Distance
3.60

I didn't catch up on Wednesday. Happy Monday. 

Last week I was going to write about my trip to the doctor for my knee, but now it's been awhile since that happened. To sum up, I wanted to go to the doctor that people had recommended for Lily, but in order to get a referral I'd first have to go to the orthopedic person at the student health center. But he said that I didn't need to go to another doctor and that really I just need to avoid running on hills and running long distances. Super. Can I say again how much I hate student health insurance at BYU? And also doctors who see running as something that hurts people instead of something that makes people healthier? And yes, he was overweight. Yeah, I went there.

Anyway, this morning I was all ready to go back out there and take life by the horns, and then my *other* knee started hurting after 2 miles. I was already on my way back home and didn't have a phone (also, who calls for ride with less than a mile to go?), so I walked a couple of times and then decided to just push through so that I wouldn't have to be seen walking in my own neighborhood. I also tried running barefoot; that didn't make the pain go away, but I was able to run for longer without it making me stop. I noticed, though, that my heels were kissing the ground a little more passionately than they did last time I ran barefoot, so I think that with the lower heel in the Altras I changed how I run a bit (more midfoot than forefoot) since there's more space. I've written before about how I really believe that the forefoot strike is what stopped the knee pain of years past, so tomorrow I'm going to try old shoes with a higher heel and see how that goes. Also, though, I was running slightly downhill and would be less forefooty on a downhill anyway, so I'm not ready to make any firm conclusions. 

PM: .5 around the track barefoot to check things out. My knee seized up pretty bad at the end, so nothing helpful there.  

Girly Altra Miles: 3.10
Weight: 0.00
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Total Distance
3.06

A few miles with Eric and Elliott out and about and around the cemetery. My knee didn't hurt at all. Maybe it's all in my head. 

The leg/hip exercises I do (sometimes):

The side-lying clam thing (with theraband)

The hip tilt thing on a stair

Lying leg lifts - up, side, back (with leg weights or theraband)

Wall sits

Squats against a wall with an exercise ball on my back (I think this is more for quads and core) 

Kinvara 2 Miles: 3.06
Weight: 0.00
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Total Distance
1.00

Eric and I were going to run together again, but after we got ready my calendar alarm reminded me that my online class meeting was supposed to start in 10 minutes. I guess it's good that I remembered, but Elliott started getting fussy when I finished up, so we kind of missed the running together window. I was going to just go to bed and skip the run, but I was already ready and everything so I decided to just do a mile (it was dark outside). No knee pain. Maybe I'm healed. Maybe a mile isn't long enough to be able to tell.  

Saucony Kinvara Miles: 1.00
Weight: 0.00
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Total Distance
5.00

A nice run with Eric and Elliott on the bike path. We have to run a couple of blocks to catch it, and then we follow it back and through Art Dye Park and then up a little hill until it ends and we turn around. If we tack on a little bit at the end we can come up with 5 miles. 

I thought my knee would hurt for sure on the way back because of the hill, but it totally didn't. At all. The whole time.

Miles were 9:03, 9:05, 8:44, 8:17, 7:48. The last mile was a little hard for me because we weren't going downhill anymore (and I'm kind of out of Catherine shape right now), but I figured that pushing even though it was uncomfortable would be better in the long run. Plus, it was a celebration of no knee pain.  

Kinvara 2 Miles: 5.00
Weight: 0.00
Comments(1)
Total Distance
0.20

Down the block and back. It was pretty late, so this was more of a symbolic run. 

Saucony Kinvara Miles: 0.20
Weight: 0.00
Comments(2)
Total Distance
12.86
Girly Altra Miles: 3.10Kinvara 2 Miles: 8.06Saucony Kinvara Miles: 1.20
Weight: 0.00
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