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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
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
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Yup 5 measly miles @ 8:39 pace.  Just before mile two my chest went into spasms and I had a time breathing through the pain.  I ate lots of salad with some raw broccoli and this is not good for me.  The pain radiates from the front of my chest to my back right where your heart/esophagus is.  Not a heart attack.  Just esophogeal spasms as then I began burping and burping but it also felt like my vertebrae were not aligned right and that they were pushing down on some nerves through my chest.  I had a lot of exposure to chemicals the last 24 hours and have been quite nauseated from them.  Chemical sensitivity, fibromyalgia, craziness you name it that's me. I had to get a woman to help me on my run this morning.  She was just leaving a friend's house after her run.  I had her try to massage the point in my middle back that was spasming.  She wanted to drive me home and her friend wished her EMT husband was home.  I told her this has happened before and about my fibro-like symptoms.  She told me her husband worked for a rheumotologists and knew that fibromyalgia worked like that so at least she was understanding.  Any way journeyed onward for the rest of my light run.  The pain waxing and waning and since I knew I wouldn't die I persevered.  Goal is to run easy all week.  Work four nights before the big 50 so I need to rest up.  This run will have 5 to 7 miles of snow running!!  The director just wrote us and will let us know more details after he runs it this weekend.  The most miles of snow they had was 4 years ago (10). The average is 1-2 miles and the least was only 10 steps!!!!  This is getting more interesting by the moment.  I plan to take the blind approach.   What I don't know won't hurt me.  I do this in the nursery as well when I am admitting babies.  I'd rather just have them send them down as they are born or called when there is an emergency then stare at the labor/delivery computer screen with lots of names of mothers and how close they are to delivery.    I am basically going to run that way.  Run Free or Die!!!!  : D

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Comments
From seeaprilrun on Wed, May 26, 2010 at 17:00:00 from 68.103.243.136

LOL! I am the same way--too much anticipation drives me crazy just let me deal with it as it comes! Anyways sorry you are having problems with pain. Yikes! Chest pain would freak me out. Hope you get to feeling better fast.

From melanieb on Wed, May 26, 2010 at 19:02:11 from 75.169.212.179

Are you okay? Call Me!

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