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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 38 marathons: 16 St. George (1995, 2006-2019, 2024). Utah Valley (2011, 2014), Eiluj (2011), Deseret News (2015: 3:40 pacer  & 2023),  Ogden (2009, 2010), Boston (1996,2012,2014,2018, 2024)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),  Nebo Marathon 340 pacer (2024)Timp trail marathon (2021) 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:

Last Marathon:

2024 Summer Pace Half Marathons

Handcart July 20, 2024 (1:55 pacer, 1:53:10, 13.11miles)

Hobble Creek  August 3, 2024 (2:00 pacer- 1:58:21, 13.06 miles)  coming back from torn hamstring

PC2PG August 17, 2024 (1:50 pacer  - 1:47:10, 12.95 miles)

East Canyon  August 31, 2024 (1:40 pacer- 1:38:49, 13.15 miles)

Nebo Marathon September 7,2024 (3:40 pacer- 3:37:09, 26.33 miles)

Big Cottonwood Canyon Marathon  September 14, 2024 (3:10  pacer for 17.12 miles)

Gardner Village Witch Run (1:40 pacer-)1:37:57 watch didn't pick up tunnels

Saint George  Marathon #16 after fiver years off-  October 5, 2024

Fall 2024

Halloween Half 10/26 (1:55 pacer)

Thankful Half

2025-   

Boston Marathon 4/21

Utah Valley Marathon 6/7,

Big Cottonwood Half Marathon (racing) 9/13/25

30 years of running Saint George Marathon (first was in 1995) SGM #17 -10/4/2025

Long-Term Running Goals:

Marathon--  PR (3:06 or better)

10k--  PR (under 40:47)

5K-- PR (under 19:46)

RUN FOREVER!!!

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Miles:This week: 8.00 Month: 14.20 Year: 1399.03
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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Good laugh at the end...stay tuned :D.  Long day so far......started waking early (6:40am ) to get Courtney up for Piano at 7am.  Drove her to piano and read in the car (freezing to death, certainly not going to idle a car for 30 minutes).   I am almost done reading Dean Karnazes book  "Run!!!"    I definitely have an Ultramarathon mind.  I can totally see where he is coming from and hope to fulfill my goal of running the 50k Antelope Island, 50 miler Squaw Peak, and the Wasatch 100 next year.  It's GOT to happen.  Okay so later after getting my other two girls off to school by 915am Troy and I headed to the rec.   No available TM (that's why I like to go at 5:30am right when they open so I don't have to wait for one, I charge in and grab one).   I ran two miles around the track passing everyone several times in two miles and pace wasn't even that fast, it felt very easy and so the pace revealed, 8:37 first mile, 8:13 second mile.  (6.5 laps is a miles).  Troy reserved a "nonshaking" TM for me.  Well, it shakes a little but not like the other EARTHQUAKE TMs.  Got on TM at 1 % incline and ran two miles at 8:20 warmup pace.  Got off and pottied and stretched.  Ran another  0.5 miles at 8:20 pace, I think, and went right in to my planned SW of 5 x 1200m (well, actually 0.75 miles) at 5k pace.  Now the pace I have for 5k is based off Mcmillan's calculator for a 1:28 half marathon (6:07).  Well,  I have NEVER run a 5k at that pace so I slowed it down from that to a 6:11 pace for all five sets.  Needless to say I have never run a 5k at that pace either.  I haven't raced a 5k for three years!! I ran 0.5 mile recovery at 8:57 pace  (exact same time as the SW interval : D).    I ran the SW at 0 incline and the recovery at mostly 1%.    I have to say that I felt completely out of shape today but I think that my flu-like symptoms yesterday that lasted until this morning's run had something to do with it.  I felt lightheaded and achy.    This was all topped off with MARATHON grocery shopping at Walmart (double coupon day) and when I say marathon  I mean marathon.  I was all sweaty just wearing my sports bra under my jacket to get rid of the sweat off off me and my shorts (Troy went home while I was running 12 TM miles and showered then came back to pick me up and head right to Walmart).  I was freezing to death after the first hour and asked Troy for a break to go home and shower. I left him for 45 minutes.  I came back and he was still shopping.  I told him we better hop in line or we wouldn't make a Subthree hour marathon time with the cashier taking all our price matching and double coupons.  We were almost done when I looked down at my watch and saw that it was 15 seconds to a sub3 hour shopping marathon  (lots of marathon jokes being said between my husband and I,  the teller was a young lad, quite amused).  Well I told him to speed it up or I wouldn't be under three hours but that we could go for my B standard of 3:05 and that would be okay.  He said "yah I am going for the 3:05!!.  Yup he was done tallying up our groceries and he crossed the finish line at 3:04:50!!".   I am such a numbers person.  I can't believe I timed us shopping.  I didn't ever think it would take that long.  It was the first time we ever took that long!!!!! 

Altras Zero Drop (lt. Blue) Miles: 12.00
Night Sleep Time: 7.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 7.50Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Andrea on Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 19:58:35 from 67.177.21.60

Surely you can run a marathon faster than a shopping trip to Walmart!

From Rachelle on Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 09:37:16 from 159.212.71.173

ha ha this made my entire day. :D Nice job with the SW and the 3:05 shopping marathon. I hope you got some great deals.

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