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Location:

Pleasant Grove,UT,USA

Member Since:

Aug 04, 2008

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

PRs: Fleet Feet Turkey Trot 5k- 19:46;  St. George Marathon  3:07:11(2013-- coming back from the dead)  Utah Valley Marathon 2011- 3:09:13 : D  1st place Master Division, 7th Overall; Mt. Nebo 1/2 Marathon 2011- 1:19:35- 2nd Overall,  first master. Ogden Marathon 3:14  (2010); 10K 2011 Speedy Spaniard 40:47.  I have run 33 marathons: 15 St. George (1995, 2006-2019). Utah Valley (2011, 2014), Eiluj (2011), Deseret News (2015, 3:40 pacer),  Ogden (2009, 2010), Boston (1996,2012,2014,2018)Top of Utah (1999, 2011 pacer), and SLC (2006,2015), Pocatello (3:40 pacer 2012),park city marathon 3:41:53 (2013), and Big Cottonwood pacer (2017,2018)and three Ultras-Squaw Peak 51.25 miler 2010 in 12:05:27 (9th woman) and  Antelope Island  (32 miler) in  March, 2011 (4th overall in 5:10:25) and in 2009.

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

2020 Marathon Madness

April  Salt Lake City Marathon April 18

May  Ogden Marathon  May 16

June Utah Valley Marathon  June 6 

July  Deseret News Marathon  July 24 

August  Top of Utah Aug 22 

September  Big Cottonwood  Sept 12 

October Saint George Marathon Oct 3  

November New York City Marathon  Nov 1

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

Marathon--  PR (3:06 or better)

10k--  PR (under 40:47)

5K-- PR (under 19:46)

RUN FOREVER!!!

Personal:

Married to Troy since 1997.  We have three daughters- Courtney 21,  Brooke 19, and Amber 16 and one dog-Cocoa (15). Troy works and cook lots of yummy dinners and desserts.  Courtney is back as of Aug 2019 from 18 months in England.  Now working as a CNA and going to BYU. Brooke graduated from PGHS IN MAY 2019. Attending UVU in Fall. Called to serve in the Michigan Landing LDS church mission. Leaves Jan22, 2020. Amber plays for Olympic Montreux Premier 1 soccer team.  And is a junior this Fall 2019. I  work full time (27 years in June 2019) as a registered nurse. Currently working in the special care nursery  at American Fork Hospital.  Our family loves to camp and go to Disneyland.  

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 39.47 Year: 532.59
Brooks Pureflow Lifetime Miles: 309.19
Altras Zero Drop (lt. Blue) Lifetime Miles: 366.29
Mizuno Precision 11 (orange) Lifetime Miles: 610.05
Saucony Mirage 2 Grey Lifetime Miles: 223.70
Nike Pegasus Charc/lime Lifetime Miles: 487.77
Nike Pegasus Grey/blue Lifetime Miles: 428.92
Mizuno Precision Pink Lifetime Miles: 479.56
Nike Lunar Flyknits RED Lifetime Miles: 893.47
Nike Lunar Flyknits MULTI GREY Lifetime Miles: 369.20
Mizuno Sayanaras Lifetime Miles: 292.58
Asics Gel Lyte 33-2 (blue) Lifetime Miles: 163.09
Altra Intuition 1.5 Grey Lifetime Miles: 55.31
Altras Pink Intuition 1.5 Lifetime Miles: 79.00
Kinvara 5s Peach Lifetime Miles: 576.20
Kinvara 5s YELLOW Lifetime Miles: 346.56
Kinvara Blue/lime Lifetime Miles: 578.77
Kinvara 5s Green Lifetime Miles: 47.31
Kinvara 6 Turquoise Lifetime Miles: 531.20
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Nada. (WAIT THIS JUST IN SEE BELOW!!!)  Passed out cold  at 9pm after a long day at work.  Didn't even have the strength to listen to my bladder in the middle of the night and then my alarm went off.  Bladder happy but rest of my body was beyond tired and yippee 13 more hours of continuous work...VERY busy day.  Who said having a baby was easy?  My poor patient may end up on ICU by morning.  Not a Merry thing at all.  Very tough.  Baby cute, though.  Anyway...the roads of course were CLEAR!!!  no ice!!!  And here I risked my life yesterday.  AND  I got IN zero miles to speak of.  Tomorrow is Amber's 8th birthday.  We are having a 4 1/2 hour birthday party filled with games, pizza, cake, ice cream, present hide and seek, and the movie Megamind.  I suppose I will have to force myself out of bed early in the am for some TM speedwork.  Not sure where I am going with all this effort?  Painter's half in January  is no PR course and SGM is MILES away.  Antelope Island should be interesting since I am in better shape and a bit more competitive but I want to not be for this race.  It's a tough one.  I just want to run by feel, sans garmin but I doubt  I can convince myself of that by race morning (march 26th).  9:33 PM:  STRAIGHT ARM PLANK  5:03!!!!!!(usually I do elbow.  Kim thinks straight arms is harder than elbows.  I think the opposite, yet I had never done a straight arm plank until tonight.  SHAKING MISERBLY the last 1 1/2 minutes but so KNEW I could do it.  Just embraced the PAIN and watched the seconds tick ever so slowly away.  Of course I am going for the elbow 5 minute plank.  My middle back must be my weak area as the muscles/bones in there really start to get sharp pains as my abs weaken. BUT totally feel soooo accomplished now  : D.

Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
Comments
From RAD on Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 00:29:16 from 67.172.229.125

woot woot! nice job girl!

From allie on Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 00:29:43 from 174.23.238.75

totally awesome, julie! congrats on breaking the 5:00 barrier. i really don't know if i will ever get there.

regarding your question about elbows vs. straight arms...i don't know. i will try it straight armed style tonight and see if it makes a difference. i would think it would be harder.

From allie on Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 02:11:22 from 174.23.238.75

ok, i just did 3:00 with straight arms. i noticed that the shaking started sooner and was more violent than usual. it also hurt the palms of my hands after a bit, but i was doing it on a wood floor. my upper arms also felt more fatigued than the elbow style. and it seems to engage more of your core muscles...

in sum, i think it's harder. which means double awesome and double congrats on the 5:00 plank!

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