| 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)
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| 8 miles. Forget pace. I think 8:13 ap. Easy post 20 miler
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| easy run the first mile outside then out of nowhere white out And pelting snow at my face. Accumulation on my jacket in just a few seconds. ran four miles in craziest weather I have experienced while running. It made me stronger. Have to be. My mother learned last week she has pancreatic cancer and Tuesday she found out it has spread to abdominal lining. So stage four. Poor prognosis. Sad tears daily going on here.
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| ap 8:07. Out and back from hotel in ogden. Brr. But sun was out so I warmed up nicely.
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| 2 mile warm up on tm at hotel. 3 mile tempo. 653, 6:53 and 645. Back home. First dentis appt. so tired now need to sleep for days.
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| Five miles easy at gym. My mom is coming out to Utah Sunday. STAGE FOUR PANCREATIC CANCER. Wow. This is pretty sucky. Haven't had to deal first hand with Cancer since my sister in 1998 with nonhodgkins lymphoma. She is cured. NO cure for pancreatic cancer. Pretty much devastated. My mother is staying with me and getting palliative treatment at the Huntsman Cancer Institute.
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| worked. No run. Nice 12 hour shift. Love the babies!! The mom/baby floor is so wonderful!! And our unit is looking bettter and better. Cute REAL to LIFE photo of babies decorate our walls now. The photography is amazing.
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| another 12 hour shift with the babies. Making my day. My mom is on her way here. Driving with my stepfather. So wish she didn't have to fight this fight!!
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| 8 miles at the gym. Ran 15 min ons/offs. Ons from 9.8 -10.2 (3 at each pace) Offs at 8:34 for 75 seconds. Trying NOT to think about cancer. Pretty much quite irritated that I can't solve this problem. Pancreatic cancer in any stage is uncurable.
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| five miles at the gym so I can see my friends. Saw Britney, Kim and Jen. Appointment at Huntman Cancer Institute today. WAS THE VERY WORST APPOINTMENT I HAVE EVER BEEN TO. LIKE KICKING SOMEONE WHEN THEY ARE DOWN. Wow that was just awful. Dr. asked my mother if she wanted her prognosis or if she heard anything/read anything. We both said two years. He said NO MUCH SHORTER. 4-5 months median age (half people die) if untreated within 4-5 months. 9-12 months if treated. I was like hold on there. But then I just broke down and cried and jumped to my mother's side. It was like learning your family just died in a car accident but only you can brace yourself for it. As many of you know I lost two members of my family- my dad and older sister who was 14 at the time in a car accident in 1982 and my brother three years later in a car accident 1985. I think we felt like begging for mercy. It was unbelievably awful. Just not right. But NOW TO BE POSITIVE. She could be that 1% and there could be some clinical trials that will improve outcomes. There are some they just don't have a spot for my mother yet. All filled up. Waiting to hear if there is one over the week until she starts chemo next Tuesday. Sorry this is not much of a running blog. IT is my life alongside running.
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| won't be running. could NOT sleep last night. How do I deal with this??? LIVE LIFE to the fullest we can. Accept what we can't change and move forward with HOPE AND FAITH. blah. I mean OKAY I CAN DO THAT.
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| Ran up in Ogden after driving there for training at 6am and training until 530pm. Ran at 7pm. Up hill two miles to the east from the hotel, hampton inn and suites downtown. Then took long way back that included running by the Ogden temple. Went out for dinner with Danielle, another nurse training with me. We went to the Blue Lemon. Fish TACOS yum yum and chocolate cake. Couldn't sleep this night (Thursday). Always the case adjusting to the end of daylight savings.
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| too tired to waken early to run before leaving at 730am for training. So after training at 5 pm tried to beat traffic (ha ha) thru slc but ended up taking 45 minutes longer to get home than driving up at 620 am Thursday.
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| dressed to run but had to take Amber to 6th grade Walk the Red Carpet all dressed up into the Water Gardens Theatre. I looked like Cyndi Lauper. Anyway it was fun to see Amber. So CUTE and her hair was crimped and braided nicely. So perfect!!! Anyway got hungry being there for two hours that I went home to eat breakfast first before running then one thing led to another...I didn't get out to run. Helping my mom and other family and then Amber's soccer game.
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| to church with my mom. Then after church made a veggie tray and went over to my sister's in Orem with my family. We had bbq chicken. YUM. and coconut rice and garlic zuchhini. My mom got a blessing from Chris and Troy and Greg.
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| three mile warmup starting at 8:00 pace for first mile. 7:47 for second then increasing pace every 0.2 miles by 0.1 miles until 3 miles. 60 second water break. Then right into four mile tempo. 6:53, 6:48, 6:44 and 6:40. No stops. Cooldown one mile in 7:46.
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| 5 easy outside. nice run. so warm. 73. 8:15 ap. My mom has her first chemo treatment that we will instead call her "Royal Treatment" in order to have a more positive connotation with it. So Sunday night Amber stepped on a wood chip. I tried so hard to get it out and NOT have to depend on a Dr. visit/cost. I got fragment after fragment out that night. she went to bed and wanted to go to school. I had her soak it after school and used the baking soda method. LITTLE DID I KNOW IT WAS WAY MORE HUGE besides the tip of a pen a 1/4 below the skin staring out at me!! The dr even asked if I was sure it was a wood chip?? Really yes it is not a blood speckle that is black wood. He numbed her foot and couldn't get it out with even super eyes (special up close glasses). So from the Dr at 1100 we had to wait for her podiatrist appointment at 245pm. Amber has been a trooper. So much pain and tears. An hour into the visit with Dr. Phillips he yanked that DeVil (amber is calling it that) out. She said there was so much pain but also so much joy. I had to hold her for all the injections and pus removal. Yup infected. Anyway she is on an antibiotic and tip toeing around but such a relief. I posted the pic on facebook. Meanwhile my mom went up as planned to Huntsman Cancer Institute with my sister but not me un fortunately but I couldnt feel unnecessary guilt. Amber needed this thing out and sending my dear husband would have wound up in surgery as that was the first thing the podiatrist wanted to do!! 10 days off foot with an incision. NOPE. I said a quick prayer and went for the in office approach. He was unsure if there were fragments or one long stick. Yup a 1/2 inch stick. Phew. After Amber's appointment and texting back and forth to my mother up with her Royal Treatment Amber and I made dinner together for the family and it was all ready for my mom when she got back. So good to see Amber happy again. Also my mom did really well. Felt the same. No feeling of having had anything. That is a tender mercy for sure!! She is my same old mom!! :D. She even slept like a log even though they said she would probably be up all night due to the IV steroid given to prevent rejection of the other meds.
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| 8 miles. 4 increasing to 7:47 pace. 7:47 for three miles. Last mile 7:35. 1 percent incline for the first four. zero the last four. stretch as usual.
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| tm at hotel. Easy.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 17.00 | 0.00 | 17.00 |
| no watch but ran with fun group. Jane Angie Jen and Chandi. Ap about 7:43 alpine
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.00 | 3.00 | 6.00 |
| 2 mile warmup. The. three mile Tempo. Warmup at 7:47 pace. Tempo miles-6:53 then 648 and last at 635. 1 miles. Cools down at 747 pace
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| 8 easy on tm. 1 percent grade
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| Zero. In Ogden for work. Took my mother along. To keep an eye on her after chemo second treatment. 3 once a week and then 1 week off
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 2.00 | 8.00 |
| 6 progressive increasing every 0.75 miles by 0.2 mph. Starting at 7.0. Then ran last two at 6:53 and 6:43
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| Zero. My mom had a bad reaction and had to rush her to the huntsman cAncer institute. Left work in Ogden. She was in bad shape. It was scary to see. I stayed awake all night at hospital caring for her and trying to thing of how to help her pain. It was just awful!!
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 19.00 | 0.00 | 19.00 |
| 19 on my own. Missed the text saying meeting somewhere else at different time. Actually miss read the info so missed the group and ran all on my own the alpine loop. Just easy to help teach my body to use glycogen stores. So 8:07. My sister stayed with my mom last night. Som much btr today but still not ready to leave. Possible viral meningitis. I hoping it is not and it as just an arctic migraine with a fever which is common with chemo. Migraine howeve is. It so much. My mother was incapacitated.
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| 8 easy. This run is Tuesday and Tuesday's entry is today. My phone is so small I. Opulent see the whole calendar. Grrrr. Ran this on hotel treadmill in ogden at Hampton inn and suites downtown. Had a lovely room with a spectacular view. A suite. The ogden temple back dropped with mountains beyond. Ap about 8:12
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| my mom was dischArged yesterday. She is back at my house. Went to gym. Ran three easy warm up and then four tempo. 6:53 6:48 6:44 and 6:39 slightly faster as I increased the pace to 10 mph by end. Felt good. Feel bad so very sad for my mom and the fight she must fight. I wish this night mare would go away. So for now I hope for a miracle that my mom would be the first cured from this cancer.
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