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Arctic Valley Trail Run

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2009
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Location:

Anchorage,AK,US

Member Since:

Jul 13, 2009

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Half Marathon Finish

Running Accomplishments:

Bird Ridge Mountain Race, 2009: 70 minutes

Mount Marathon Race, 2009, 1:41

Short-Term Running Goals:

To post faster times in this summer's mountain races plus finish a half marathon at at the end of the summer. Would like to improve my Mt. Marathon time for next year plus run the Moab 33K in February.

Long-Term Running Goals:

I would love to do an ultra-distance race, 50 miles or even 110--oh, oh, oh!

Personal:

Single parent, live in Alaska, LOVE trail running, and the trails here are rough, baby. My dog is my best running companion, since she scares away the bears and moose.
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Sun, Jul 26, 2009
Race: Arctic Valley Trail Run (4 Miles) 00:49:14, Place overall: 15, Place in age division: 7
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
0.004.000.000.000.004.00

I am SO stoked! I placed 7th in the women's division of today's race. Too cool! The race was 4.0 miles, with the first two miles climbing up the Arctic Valley ski slopes, which meant we peaked one mountain, ran down and peaked another. Whew! The wind was so strong it almost knocked me over. Downhill was treacherous at the top and then sloped out so that I was able to run full-blast the last mile. Felt awesome.

The cool thing is that I am getting FASTER! My first mountain race I was in the front of the back of the pack; the second race I was in the middle of the pack; the third I was in the front of the middle of the pack. And today I was in the middle of the lead pack (I'm feeling it right now, too).

In two weeks I'm jumping over to pavement for the Skinny Raven 1/2 marathon. Uh-oh.

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Comments
From Adam RW on Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 22:33:10 from 155.101.152.103

Congrats on the great finish. Do you wear a Garmin? I'm asking because I'm curious what that initial climb was. I'm sure it was tough... Welcome to the blog.

From DonGardinero on Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 01:42:49 from 75.162.189.93

Wow, congratulations!!! That sounds like a fun, tough run.

From Burt on Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 12:28:39 from 68.76.197.194

Great job Cinthia! I know what it's like to be finishing in the back of the pack and slowly work my way up in the standings as it were.

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