| 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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Utah Valley Marathon (26.34) (26.2 Miles) 03:09:13, Place overall: 7, Place in age division: 1 | | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 26.34 | 26.34 |
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HOPE you endure the long report : D. Seven peaks for four hours, Little Caesars pizza with the kids, Expo, then byu mens soccer until 1030pm last night, bed by 1130pm up at 2:30am (up once in between), couldn't fall back to sleep, decided to eat oatmeal and a piece of toast. Pottied several times. In fact had to use the potty 6 times yesterday at seven peaks/expo. Strange. So I tried to drink as often as I saw water. Not happy about arriving home at 11pm last night. But tried to think positive. But then just as I tossed my garmin into my bag at 3:45am it turned on and read "battery low". Oh great this is just getting better. More potty breaks. Plug it in for 10 minutes (last bus in Provo 20 minutes away is 4:15am), got it to 20 % from 10 %. There 20 % of a 20 hour battery equals ( I get out the calculator cause I am too stupid to do easy math at this hour) , oh yah--- 4 hours. I should be good. That story cont. later. Get to the start having to potty AGAIN--- this time more like cramps and you know what several times. I met up with McKenzie and Aubrey and started to feel adrenalinized instead of ZOMBIE-like. The drive to the start I had some serious doubts of even running any 7:00 minute miles. I was SOOOOO tired. But seeing them boosted me. We hung out for 40 minutes. Got to the start, then ANOTHER potty break in the woods and oh one more behind McKenzie and Aubrey while they stood in front of me. I am diuresing and have no idea why. I hadn't drank much. I started to feel flu/achy like, like when you feel you are depleted of minerals/electrolytes. So I decided I would get gatorade at every other aide station. Took a gu just a minute before the start to cut down on my baggage around my waist. I pinned my gus to my shorts, three of them. Well within 1.5 miles, the cramps start up again and I am thinking, no way I don't have time to stop. Blah. I endured two more miles and just had to pull over. Accidently stopped my garmin for few seconds then quickly started again. I went to get up and run and then cramping again, so more time lost. About a minute. I got out from the grass and saw the 3:20 sign. Blah. I was in front of the 3:10 sign when I pulled over. Geez. but I feel a little better so I just cruise along enjoying the views. I catch up to 3:10 guy and wonder if I should just stay with him but decide to run my own pace. Which turned out to be pretty even throughout the course-- about 1:34 (my watch)- 1:35 at the half. I noticed after mile six my garmin was reading every mile EARLY by about .14 miles. So I think the course was long, having confirmed this with a few other runners later in the course and with McKenzie. Kind of a bummer since that made me have to calculate that into my time/distance to my PR. But oh well. The fastest avg I saw on my garmin was 7:06 for a mile or two and then it crept down to AP of 7:09 just before the battery COMPLETELY died at 24.93 miles (running time 2:58:18 but need to add about 10- 15 seconds for accidental stopping of watch). So as you can see I thought I was running better because, well, I was. So based off that pace my time for just one more 1.26 miles would be = 3:07:30!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! STUPID LONG COURSE : D. Whatever!!! Anyway, I was 7th overall woman, passing my dear friend McKenzie, who was walking at mile 20, and Julie Esplin at mile 23 who I knew was very tired. I could feel the gravatation to want to stop with them...but luckily Kim was there to save my HINEY at mile 20, with words of encouragement. I ended up talking to Kim the remaining 6.2 miles. Not sure if that part helped me but it sure was SO VERY NICE TO BE RUNNING NEXT TO HER. She was SO POSITIVE. I loved it. If I wanted to slow she was okay with that. She just pretty much was the best cheerleader EVER!!! (oh at mile 6 I tried to talk to a woman I thought looked like my age but then she "signed to me" as if she were deaf. So I said I am sorry, thinking well she is deaf and probably couldn't hear that. But I ran beside her even "signing" to her that the hills were coming up. But that was the last I saw of her until.....The top three master's were called out. I was first master and she was second. As she stepped onto the podium she whispered to me (hey she isn't deaf I thought) then she said, "my husband told me NOT to talk to anyone in the race and that he wanted me to stay focused" . "Oh I told her. I am a chatty chatstar during runs so I am used to talking and chatting away". Thought that was INTERESTING strategy. That's why I questioned my chattiness with Kim for 6.2 miles. Oh well. It was funner even if it was slower. The biggest problem for me during this race was my left sciatic nerve acting up from 7 miles on. The road is on a slant and for some reason it just flared that nerve. Last week it was all my right side. Today it was burning like no other on the left. The chiro adjusted me too well, I guess. Got rid of one problem, adding to another. Acutally I think I must have VERY weak core, so my hips are UNSTABLE. Will work on that. The other problem about this race is that I felt to GUed OUT!! I took only 4 gus but the after taste was getting to me with all that powerade. By mile 22.5 my heart rate felt fluttery from the SUGAR over load. I tried to take DEEP breaths and kick it in and I had too much of a side stitch to want to go any faster. So I didn't. Plus the next girl ahead of me was definitely in her 20s, she passed me at mile 18. NO big incentive there. Met her after the race. Yup, 25 years old. She was 35 seconds ahead but her chip time was nice-- 3:07:27. Nice girl. Anyway.... here are the splits--- (btw I never felt like I could push the pace like I have in some training runs, probably "the runs" and lack of sleep ) so I just kept it REAL, no over the top mile paces--- 7:32, 7:05, 7:09 (add about 10-15 sec, forgot NOT to stop my watch for a potty break : D, actual potty break time about 1 minute, started my watch within 15 seconds of noticing this), 6:58, 6:57, 7:00, 7:02, 7:22 ( HILL), 7:22 (HILL, not pushing the hills at all, just want to ride the downhill to improve the split), 6:54, 6:59, 7:17 (hill AGAIN), 7:04, 7:00, 6:58, 7:15, 7:09, 7:04, 6:58, 6:58, 6:52 (KIM : D), 7:09, 7:24, 7:40 (LAST HILL by country club), 7:31 for .93 miles....AP here 7:09 for 25.93 miles, so probably 7:10 for that potty watch-stopping mishap. Did not slow down much the last mile so STUPID LONG COURSE-- Kim had my pace for last mile at 7:40 and then 7:00 for last .2. Forgot to mention-- I won $300 for 1st place master : D. Being paid to run...INSANE. FYI: UVM course has vertical gain of 943ft. and loss of 2127 ft. Net loss-- 1184 ft. Not near as fast as SGM.
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