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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)

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nothing.  I got up like normal people do before work and didn't run in the wee hours.  I think I thought I was going to like die after my sub three marathon.....because now I am depressed as I look around at the remnants of my summer affair with running madness and say to myself "what was it all for?"  as the years pass by and I just keep getting older and not younger....blah,  I am like "who am I really?".  All the fun times this summer crazily running miles-- 4 marathons in less than four months.  Started and ended with PRs.  Some moments I would like to capture in time forever-- running up Sogonamit marathon with Kelli being one and running down TOU marathon with Risa and Nickie the other.  I also think I have an anxiety disorder.  Overstimulated in crowds so the small town races  I am more myself.  I don't even think I focused much on the race during the race until  I realize we were in a race and no one really talked much anymore.  I so loved running with Jane up Veyo.  I ran from running partner to running partner chatting up a storm with many a friend along the way.  That is what running is about to me.  This racing thing is a drag.  No time to chat and laugh and pee.  No worries  I will redeem myself but I honesly do not have a great self image at the moment.  Those marathon photos are absolutely hideous.   Not sure when I will be back for my surprise ending but sometime between now and when I am fifty.  : D.    My analogy for the marathon for me last Saturday:  It was like at one point I was floating down stream merrily along seeing all my good running friends along the way and suddenly a current pulled me and others back and others caught the waves and moved forward swiftly.  I got a lot of debris in my eyes and could no longer see clearly and then out of no where Kelli appears, then Tyler and then Lily--- friends once more in the marathon river to the finish line.  It has been a great year with many a running friend along the way.  No matter how we got there we all ended and started  in the same place, just as in life itself, : D.

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Comments
From Rachelle on Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 14:12:47 from 199.190.170.24

Julie your post brought me to tears. Running should be fun. Take the pressure off and enjoy it as a release from life. We should plan some fun group runs together. Getting faster and improving is great but at the end of the day that is definitely not what it is all about.

Love you and thinking about you.

From julieesplin on Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 10:32:13 from 75.169.173.211

Last year at TOU I had bad allergies which I thought were a sinus infection, and I was so stressed out an anxious about the race that it wasn't even fun for me. I had a PR and didn't even enjoy it. Afterwards I felt mad at and disappointed in myself. I run for fun.

I thought about something I heard Bart Yasso say at a presentation before the Boston Marathon, "never take a finish line for granted because you never know when it will be your last." I recommitted myself to doing that and have enjoyed running a lot more this last year.

My goal for St. George was to PR, but more importantly to have fun doing it.

I understand some how you feel right now. My UVM in June was an unenjoyable flop. But after my experience of the previous year I held my arm up as I crossed the finish line glad I could run at all (and also embarrassed) and thought, "Maybe next time."

I really think you'll have a "next time" and it won't be long before you have that perfect marathon you know you're capable of. Hang in there and enjoy the run.

From JulieC on Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 14:53:23 from 71.35.251.100

Thanks Rachelle and Julie, I needed that!! : D.

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