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Member Since:

Nov 19, 2009

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

TOU (2005): 3:27

Provo River Half (2008): 1:29

TOU (2008): 3:14

Utah Valley Marathon (2010): 3:10

Provo River Trail Half Marathon (2010): 1:26:46


Short-Term Running Goals:

sub 20 min. 5k

sub 42min 10k

3:05 marathon

Long-Term Running Goals:

sub. 3 hr. marathon

Ironman???

Personal:

I have four kids and one husband.  For even more thrills and chills visit my day-to-day blog here.  I'd recommend reading with your socks off.

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Total Distance
4.50

I did 4.5 miles at an 8:32 pace.  This was a hard easy-day run.  My legs were clunky and heavy from the get-go and never really worked out of it.  I felt like a sandbag was in the middle of my brain cavity sloughing its weight around my ears.  And I could feel the the ridge of my eyelids all along my eyeballs - they wanted to close sooooooo bad.  I didn't run until the afternoon and I'm usually a morning runner so that might have been part of the reason for the tiredness.  The other part comes in thirds - a 3 year old third, a 21-month old third and a 3 month old third.  All of them have chosen to have sleep issues through the last couple of weeks.  It would be nice if they all coordinated their issue at once - say at 2 o'clock in the morning or whenever o'clock in the morning that they agreed upon.  But instead they tag-team it and one of them wakes me up every two hours like its shift work.  POOOOOOR ME!!!  Now my husband really is a good guy and is helpful when he isn't thousands of miles away - but he's thousands of miles away for the year.  So as I said, POOOOOOOOOR ME!!!  These things come and go, though.  So I'm recording my sleep hours here just so I can feel all the more gratified in three to six months when I can put a big chunky 8 in the sleep box every day.

I ran from my sister's house again today.  She took my three kids along with her two kids to the park while I ran (she's a trooper!).  We all left at once and my three year old started running after me as I went down the street.  He yelled, "Be careful Mom!  I don't want you to run into those trees."  "It's alright.  I'll be careful.  Stay with your Aunt."  I ran a few more steps with my little boy huffing after me.  "Be careful Mom.  I don't want you to run into those cars."  "Yep.  I'll be careful buddy.  Thanks.  Stay with your Aunt."  But stay with his Aunt he wouldn't.  I had to walk with him to the park and then run from there.  As I went running off from the park I wondered if I should be flattered that my cute boy cared enough to worry about me, or deflated because he thinks I'm such a clutz (:

Night Sleep Time: 6.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.00
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