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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
Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
43.100.000.000.000.0043.10
Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
10.400.000.000.000.0010.40

I got to run a little later in the morning. The weather was gorgeous! I felt so good running. I seem to recover pretty well from the long runs. I'm in a sweet spot right now of balancing mileage and recovery. The test will be the speed workouts.

I ran 4800s up to Murray Park,along Vine to 5300 S , back to 4800 S. I came back along the river trail. My garmin died at 10.4 miles, which luckily was right in front of my house. 6:50 average.

I want to keep the mileage around 70 this week. It will take some planning and focus since Teren is in Boston until Saturday afternoon. Then, I will drop down a bit next week for the 5k.

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Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
11.500.000.000.000.0011.50

I had planned on 5 x 2000 on the track, but after I warmed up I realized that the track was locked all the way around. So, I ran a longer fartlek on the River trail. I had planned on doing the 2ks at about 5:52 average. The fartleks were around that range. I warmed up three miles and then ran 10 minutes, 8 minutes, 6 minutes, 4 minutes, 2 minutes, 1 minute with.5,4,3,2,1 minute recoveries. 10 minute was at 5:56 average, the 8 minute at 6:05 (all headwind) 6 minute at 5:54, 4 minute at 5:50, and I'm not sure about the two and one. I was just trying to stay under six minute pace. 6:22 average for the seven miles of workout. 1.5 mile cooldown.

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Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
8.650.000.000.000.008.65

8.65 easy recovery.

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Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
12.550.000.000.000.0012.55

Next week was supposed to be my down week, but with my husband out of town, and my youngest coughing too much to leave with anyone, I could only get so much running in this week. So, forced down week this week, and take it back up next week. It's probably not a bad thing, I was starting to feel dome niggley pains after Tuesday's workout.

Devra came to run with me. At seven miles she caught a metal loop with her foot and crashed hard. A really nice girl stopped and gave her some water and Neosporin. She was pretty ripped up. She made 5.5 more miles, but was hurting too badly, so we looped back to my house and I administered first aid. I could have gone longer, but just felt like adding it to the crappy week of training and called it good. I will be nice and rested for the upcoming week. I will either have to race the 5k on tired legs, or just skip it altogether. It's not an important race, especially since they took it off of the circuit. Oh, life.

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Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
43.100.000.000.000.0043.10
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