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Location:

Saint George,UT,

Member Since:

Jun 09, 2009

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Marathon Finish

Running Accomplishments:

I started running in September 2007 - 4 months after baby #8 was born.  Since then I have finished two 5Ks, three 10Ks, three half-marathons, and I completed my first Marathon with at time of 4:48- the Phoenix Rock-N-Roll - Jan 2009!  Marathon #2 showed GREAT improvement - the Saint George Marathon 2009 with a time of 4:10 - YEAH!!!!

Short-Term Running Goals:

I want to run more marathons, finish injury-free, go dancing afterwards, and mostly have a LOT of FUN!!!

Long-Term Running Goals:

Keep running!!!  Someday I want to be able to consider myself as something other than a beginner.  :D

Personal:

I am happily married, have 8 children, and am madly in love with my awesome husband!!!  Besides running, I love performing on stage, and have recently become re-involved in the theater, after a LONG break to have children.  Last summer I did my first show as a PAID professional actress!  I teach piano and voice lessons, and homeschool my kids.  Life is grand!

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Oooooeeeeee!!!!  I'm SO sore today!  This is somewhat exciting to me, since I very rarely do anything that gets me sore anymore...nice to know that I am still capable of challenging my muscles a bit.  Maybe I need to add "hiking" to my repertiore more often.  :D

So, I told my husband that I was going to take a rest day today, and only bike 20 miles.  he said that didn't sound like a rest day to him....which is funny because HIS rest days usually consist of a 20 mile bike ride and some P90X, just for fun!  I'm trying to remember when it was that I became as crazy as HE is...

I "slept in" until 5:45 this morning, then got up to teach bootcamp, which today consisted of a half hour of really good stretching and a half hour of pilates.  After that, I met up with my friend Helen and we did a very slow 20.2 miles on the bike, keeping to the bike path so that we could stay on flat ground, and we finished in 1:13:55.  It was purely a recovery ride, so no "pushing it" was allowed.  I really think I'm done for the day, since I took a nap this afternoon and now I feel like the tin man from the Wizard of Oz...all rusted over.

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Comments
From KP on Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 17:10:18 from 65.208.22.25

your hike sounds fun!

my goodness... you sure know how to "rest" really well...

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