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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 43 marathons: 17 St. George (1995, 2006-2019, 2024,2025). Utah Valley (2011, 2014, 2025), Eiluj (2011), Deseret News (2015: 3:40 pacer  & 2023, 2025),  Ogden (2009, 2010), Boston (1996,2012,2014,2018, 2024,2025)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 (2017,2018,2025),  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:

2025-   Ran five marathons - 4/21 Boston 3:40, 6/7 Utah Valley 3:33, 7/24 Des News 3:41, 9/13 Big Cottonwood (pacer) 3:37, and INJURED BADLY ran SG #17 10/4 having not run since big C - 4:00:29. KNEE was giving me grief since utah valley, just before and it blew UP in Big C and had to stop running for a few months but I had signed up for Boston 2026 so here goes 2026 recovery...

2026 RUNNING GOALS:

Boston 2026 goal under 4 hours.  

Pacing gigs:

May 9th Farmington half pacer 2:10??

6/6/26=  UVM  3:45 pacer

Long-Term Running Goals:

Marathon--  PR (3:06 or better)

10k--  PR (under 40:47)

5K-- PR (under 19:46)

RUN FOREVER!!!

57 years of age goals:

marathon 3:15

1/2 marathon 1:30

10 K 43:00

5k  20:30

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Miles:This week: 15.00 Month: 137.50 Year: 1399.73
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: 373.20
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: 80.00
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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4 before work 5 am :D

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VERY RIDICULOUSLY FATIGUED SLEPT 9.5 HOURS AND STILL fatigued

dragged my sorry legs and heart to lone peak pakr and did a 2 mile varying but mostly same loop x 4 around the pond

1006 avg   hr avg 134

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8  w/sw x 24 min

3 mile warm up at vasa in 26:34  850 avg  started slower ended faster some sort of math used

  1. 3  2  1  1  2  3  3  2  1  1  2  3 ons at 730/713/658/649/709/724/709/658/631/627/649/658-703 if i remember correctly    anyway 730 too easy.  felt good 7 and under as speed  (just checked my coros watch prediction for speed and it does say 618 - 656 for speed.   tempo 713 and slower is my guess     watch says 657-738 for threshold

2  1  1  1   1  2  2  1  1  1  1  2  at 905 pace each

cool down to 5.5 miles to get the 8 miles ( actually 8.5 miles forgot I did 3 mile warmup ) 

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2 easy before work at 515 am   

933 avg pace

hr 132

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met melanie at provo cayon 532 am start  i added to potty that was closed 0.12 miles waiting on melanie to get back from her walk warm up

7 up (1 up south fork)  7 down

then out and back toward provo for me 6 miles

avg hr 155  avg pace easy 855

one gel c30 at mile 11   also about 6 electrolyte sour gummys that stuck to my teeth and honestly just bugged my palate   was craving milk or protein not sugar

stopped at campground water, south work on way up and down, campground again and eternal fountain briefly at each prob 6 min total of stops

melanie ran 14 miles

i did not stop from 13-20

iced in river two min after finish for 12 min

home to vacuum then be uber nannay to take brooke and david and evie to airport for disneyland with david's family    

troy and i going on tues for a few days staying right across the street

1009/923/915/908/905/857/943 the steep and swerves/847 0.15 of this up/837/843/844/829/829/829/839/846/835/ turn around at 17.12/ 856/857/ 834  

hr shot up here from dehydration   no water since mile 13 and so sick of the sour patch like taste in mouth

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5 before work Labor Day.    Worked Sunday too.  933 avg avg hr 141.  Very tired. 

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2 mile warmup 838 avg.  very exhausted from past four days.  Work Friday Sunday Monday and 20 miler Saturday 530 am.  No stop all day. And run before work yesterday. Bed early each day but broken sleep.  Packed for Disney at 11 pm after two hour nap at 830 pm last night.  
up 550 am. Gym by 615 am.  Two potty stops start warmup 

3/2/1.  1/2/3.  3/2/1.  1/2/3.  3/2/1.  1/2. 
jog 1/2/1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1
 

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disneylang fligh yesterday got into park during a  heat wave !  thank goodness Troy and I were right across the street! 

desert inn and suites room 509  lots of steps took them all the time except coming and going with suitcases

came back to room after seeing Evie and Brooke and David for 5 min

we had to put our luggage in the back (this is all tuesday)

NOW today i ran at 642 am for 6.3 miles an L shape out and back around disney nearly full square   903 avg  hr avg 149   81 degrees 66 percent humidity

DCA  then disneyland;  brooke's rest day  saw her for 10 min at 9 pm after downtown disney

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7 the day after major heat wave!  108 degrees in park yesterday  feels like 112 it said

out and back down disneyland drive to haster then to harbor to the target to use bathroom, cont down harbor then left on lampson for a bit until 3.5 miles same return route

hr 143   pace 905  temp 80  63 humid  646 am

disney california until 1 then disneyland the DCA from 512 to 615 pm to see brooke and her in laws dressed up for halloween- toy story  brooke was jessie david buzz evangeline  green alien

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636 am  avg hr 147  avg pace 842     85 percent humidity  ouch! with the wet heat!

out and back first toward brookes hotel so could us mcds bathroom early in run so mile back to my hotel then disneyland drive to clementine to all the war around again

disneyland the disney california then disneyland until 11 pm

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avg pace 853  avg hr 145   73 degrees 85 percent humidity  could tell the humidity for sure

did out and back to brookes hotel then loops around anaheim boulevard (haster), harbor, and clementine to avoid too many peeps as i left later.  657 am.  

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rest day but took evie into disneyland to go on its a small world,  mickey's runaway train, tea cups and alice...then out to nurse at grand californian then back out to disneyland to pirates and pooh bear.  was gonna take her in haunted mansion but line to long.  SHE LOVED POOH BEAR.  Fell dead asleep after alice!!  30 min nap though.   So happy every time we rode into disneyland with her in stroller, talking to her self etc...

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dead to planet earth 

arrived home 920 pm landed  waited for shuttle until like 1020.  Drove brooke and david home (used troy's truck)  home at 1210 am  bed just before 1 am  awake at 650 am  out of bed 710 am   unpacked both of our suit cased  got ready to run 22 miles without fuel except two salt tabs sips of a fruit punch gatorade and some waater and tree water melon sour electrolytes and then during run only water.

ran up provo canyon 10 miles (was only gonna go up 8 but i got this far up why not??)  got to the last gate up south fork about 10.1 then down.  went slow whole time just mentally not into it and felt spent from all last week including sunday in park, flying home late ...

938 avg  hr avg 147    unusually high for slowness but also colder and good head wind on return   def not hot at all felt snail like entire jog.   56 degrees 45 humidity.  

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4 slow miles

1 on own 1035  just bored 

then three with brooke c naturally pick it up but felt easier lol

1035/941/943/936    avg 953  hr 136  50 degrees 52 percent humidity

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rest day

work

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6 easy with kim 

she texted at 8 am saying jane bailed on her so we met up at timp caves well she got there and started running  i passed her 3/4 miles up and waited for her at the mile mark and we started

9:01, 8:24, 8:38, 7:50, 7:58, 7:27    so 8:13 avg  avg hr 158

67 degrees 57 percent humidityv 815 am start   stopped at potty x 2 and fork and turn around

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speed work at vasa

1 mile warmup probs 845 avg

 11.5 min  tempo x 4  at 7:30 pace  for first 9 min 7:24 last 2.5 min then next two 7:24 each and last one 724 to 719 to finishing at 644  for last minute  with 2.5 min jog in between at 922 pace

came to exactly 7 miles in 53:34.  

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work

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work

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last long run taper style

15 miles

 7.5 up/down provo canyon at 755 am  55 degrees wore short, heavy tank long shirt over it, ear bands and my pink gloves (for first four miles), top layer off at turn around.

a little quicker than i was planning but i was bored

no fuel just two watermelon electrolyte gummies and a couple of green grapes and a few pieces of cut pineapple before leaving my house

some water at eternal, campsite area, south fork entrance, same on way back, potty at park near turn around

949, 859, 852, 900, 834, 840, 924, 847, 755, 816, 813, 809, 754, 751, 751

hr avg 160   3:43 min of stops

 

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