| Location: Taylorsville,UT, Member Since: Sep 17, 2007 Gender: Female Goal Type: Olympic Trials Qualifier Running Accomplishments: 2 x Deseret News 10k winner
3 x All-American at BYU (back in the day)
10 x state champion in high school (way back in the day!)
3 x USA team member Short-Term Running Goals: I would like to run an Olympic Trials Qualifier in the marathon.
I would also like to run on one more international team before I pack it in!
Stay healthy! (My biggest challenge!) Long-Term Running Goals: Run my whole life, and then live vicariously through my children. (just kidding) , but I do want to pass on a healthy lifestyle to them.
Help coach East High to a state championship. (hope it doesn't take a lifetime!) Personal: I've been running since I was nine. I'm married to a fellow runner who inspires and supports me. We have two children: Cole (4) and Lily (18 mos.) I help Bill Cobler coach cross country at East High School. |
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| Miles: | This week: | 21.00 |
Month: | 88.80 |
Year: | 1086.00 | | NB 580 Lifetime Miles: | 49.79 |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 67.61 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 67.61 |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 13.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 13.00 |
| Another "mental toughness" day for me. I realized today how much I like to stay in my comfort zone. I love perfect conditions and fresh, snappy legs. When conditions are less-than-perfect, I tend to make excuses and lose it mentally. I want to improve my mental fortitude, so I decided to make a note of days when I feel I overcame an obstacle by toughness and positive thinking. Hopefully, by recognized the days that I persevered over hard things, I can carry those experiences into race situations.
Jenny and I texted back and forth this morning, trying to decide whether to brave the 20-30 mph winds, or try for better conditions later. Finally, we decided to suck it up and get our run in. I'm not going to lie. It was very hard. I was feeling yesterday's tempo run, and my legs were heavy. After being battered by the wind for 4 miles, we turned out of the wind. While it was a relief to have the wind at our back, I realized that we had pushed ourselves hard running into the wind. I never completely recovered.
But, I feel a sense of accomplishment now that the run is finished. And it could be much worse. I could be running in Montana in a 30 below blizzard. 7:15 average (more or less. My watch died at 11.4 miles. Jenny will have the exact average.)
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| My babysitter fell through today, so I took the kids to the club, hoping and praying that Myles would survive and let me get my run in. He cooperated today! I kept watching to see if a daycare worker was coming up the stairs. But, he made it. I ran an 8 mile progressive run. 6:52 average. I felt a little tired starting, but felt good by the end of the run.
The guy on the treadmill next to me kept air-boxing the console. In what world would you need to run and box at the same time?
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 9.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.50 |
| Track workouts at 5:30 a.m. are rough. I may try to get some in later in the day to see if there is a difference in how I feel. It also doesn't help that I was tossing and turning like crazy last night.
I warmed up 2.5 miles to the track and ran 4 x 200. I felt pretty good on the 200s. I couldn't see my splits on the workout, so I was running by feel. The workout was 1 x mile. 2 x 800 4 x 400. 400 recovery between the miles and 800s. 1:30 recovery between 400s.
mile: 5:46
800's 2:49, 2:50
400's: 79, 79, 79, 79. I'm nothing if not consistent.
I thought I would have been faster, but that's what came out. I'm hoping to see some good improvement over the next few months.
2.5 mile cooldown. My legs are tired.
I read Brenda Martinez's workouts for the week.
4 x 1 mile at 4:50 pace
Recovery
8 mile fartlek
13 x 400 at 65
Recovery
10 mile tempo sub 6:00 pace.
Umm. yeah. That might be why she is a world championship bronze medalist.
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 8.75 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.75 |
| Ran in the p.m. It is much nicer on the body. I got a little garmin happy. 8.75 miles 6:40 pace. Wasn't so much a recovery run. I vow to run easy and garmin-less tomorrow. 4100S to river trail.
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 7.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
| 7 super easy miles today. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 2.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.50 |
| W 2 mile warmup. I starrted a tempo run but my left hip began to tighten up. Then I noticed a catching behind my knee. It felt like it could tear if I kept going. So I bailed. I guess it's time to get this thing under control before it turns into a really serious injury. I hope I am being smart and not just wimpy. | | Comments(2) |
| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| I'm working on some ART with Dr. Fletcher right now. Today I could feel the tightness in my hips but no knee pain until 3.5 miles in. I would have stopped there, but still had to get home. It might take a while to get back to hard workouts. At least I, m being encouraged to keep running through the therapy. No workouts and nothing longer than 8 miles. My spring race plans may need ro be scrapped for the time being. Frustrating! | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 6.36 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.36 |
| I managed 45 minutes of running this morning. My hips were sore. I think they were fatigued from the strengthening exercises which is not a bad thing. I had no tightening behind my knee. That's a huge positive. ART tomorrow. It seems to be helping. It would be nice to run without hip pain for once. | | Comments(1) |
| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| Cold. Dark. Sore hip. Not my most enjoyable run ever. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 67.61 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 67.61 |
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