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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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ben and I woke up this morning with the crazy idea of doing P90X Plyometrics.  What were we thinking?!?  Anyway, we made it through the first 30 minutes or so, then decided we'd better not kill ourselves off, so we went for a one-mile walk around the block.  Right after we arrived back home, it started dumping rain - yay!

Later this morning, the clouds parted for a minute, so we decided to pull out our mountain bikes and give it a go.  I was scheduled to do 25 miles, but the wind and the fact that I forgot to eat cut our ride short.  I was shaking like a leaf when I got off the bike, but I needed to get a run in, so I ran the mile to Subway and met Ben there for sandwiches....food has never tasted so good!!!  We spent 1:03:46 on the bike, and the run was nice and slow, at 9:47.  Actually, my legs felt pretty good, and I think I would have been able to do the full 30 minute run if I hadn't been in hypoglycemic shock.  Next time...  :D

This evening, we took the whole family to the pool and Ben and I swam some laps.  I had planned to do 1500 meters, but then I realized that if I did 4 more lengths, I could say I did a mile.  When I got to 64 lengths, I figured I might as well finish to 2000 meters...so I did.  This was the only workout today where I actually did MORE than I had planned to do instead of LESS - haha!

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