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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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OK.  I love my God, my husband, my kids and St. George, UT.  We're here vacationing for the week and I can't stop praising the place.  I'm out in the sun on the back porch listening to my little boy laughing in the swimming pool playing with his Dad.  Does life get any better?????  I can look up and see Green Valley Gap, snow covered mountains and red rock.  No, life does not get any better.  I'm ready to go home, load up the moving van and set up house down here.  It is SOOOOO wonderful.  If only the place came with a running babysitter I think I'd spend the rest of the year my husband will be away right here in this bastion of warmness.

I'm going to have to figure out some running routes though.  This morning I kind of wove here and there trying to find something I liked but it was either roads that were too busy so I felt like I was eating exhaust or dirt roads that led into a remoteness that I don't do anymore now that I'm married and have kids.  I have to keep living and all...can't afford to be kidnapped....who would get the kids their chocolate milk?  I'll try to do some good looking around today - I'll try hard to avoid the temptation of using the treadmill to do my mile repeats tomorrow.

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Comments
From Aaron Kennard on Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 00:22:39 from 174.51.250.151

That description totally takes me back to 2001. Those weekend winter trips down to prophecy wall...green valley gap etc...were such a blast! That place really is awesome in the winter. A tad hot in the summer though. But you're making me jealous now.

From jess1 on Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 22:24:43 from 74.211.10.86

This place does bring back the good memories I'll tell you what. Before we got married my husband and I and friends climbed the gap too. Walking through it the other day I wished I could go back through time and watch all the climbing, good friends and good times that went down there. I highly recommend St. George as a winter respite.

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