cheryl

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Location:

So. Jordan,UT,USA

Member Since:

May 12, 2008

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Marathon Finish

Running Accomplishments:

St.George marathon 2009 - 3:34:07. It was a PR on my 11th time running St. George.

Short-Term Running Goals:

Run St. George in under 3:30; be in the top 3 in my age group

Long-Term Running Goals:

Stay strong, run well for many more years. Still set PR's in my 50's.

Learn how to run more relaxed and efficient.

Personal:

I'm married with four children. I run with a group called the Bingham Butt-Kickers, a really fun group of people that gets me out running early on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and sometimes Saturdays. I recently found out that I've been running with poor form for many years, which has probably contributed to some nagging aches and pains I've had for years. One of my big goals now is to be able to run with better form and to have running feel more effortless. I hope this won't take too many years to achieve!

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Ok, so I got up about 4:30 to go running with the group, went out and got my newspaper and saw that it was a red day as far as air quality goes. I think I was just looking for an excuse to go back to bed, because I convinced myself I didn't want to run in bad air, and that's what I did, I went back to bed with the intention of working out later. Well, "later" never seemed to really come. I did do 15 minutes on the stationary bike, plus I played a little church basketball tonight. I ran extra hard in the game to make up for my earlier laziness. I play basketball mainly just to practice fast running, how we do is secondary. Maybe that's why we lost by 4 points, I need to make winning the priority. Or maybe we lost because the other team had an almost professional sharp shooter on their team, so to only lose by 4 was really a victory in a way.

Comments

From RAD on Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 00:31:14 from 67.172.229.125

After a break from those early mornings I've also had a VERY hard time getting up in the morning! Any excuse will get me back to bed - even if I'm ready to walk out the door.

Nice job on the game, and I wouldn't worry about winning. Too much worry about that and the game loses all it's fun!

From Kelli on Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 19:01:08 from 71.219.89.82

Basketball is just for fun, really!!! Winning is not important---this is what I tell my kids anyway!

We missed you, but the air is really yucky again and I feel it. I do not know how the rest of the group runs outside every day in it. It really gets to me!!!

Have a great weekend!

From cheryl on Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 23:31:52 from 67.166.68.69

Rachel and Kelli--I agree, basketball should be just for fun, but some of those other women (not me, of course) are so competitive that it's hard not to get caught up in it all. I hope the air will be better next week. Not good to be running in bad air day after day.

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