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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 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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Miles:This week: 5.53 Month: 101.03 Year: 460.12
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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Just one of those twilight zone runs.  I was going to do a 5x7:05 pace TM run after good warmup then a good cool down so called Kim at 810am.  She said "hey why don't you come with me, my husband has the day off and is driving me up AF canyon 8 miles".  Of course I dropped everything and hurried over there.  We began our run at mile marker 12 up AF canyon before the fork in the road a ways.  We took off at what felt extremely easy 7:17 for the first mile (we were trying to go slow, a warm up, then do 5 to 6 at 6:30).  We quickly were able to pick it up to 6:30s no problem.  Tried a caffeine gu (I don't even think it is that much, have to look it up) just before taking off, never again.   My heartrate soared on the major uphill out of the canyon at mile 5.  I have always had this problem with caffeine, plus I took it on an empty stomach, so I don't know why I did that.  Just thought I would see.  Wouldn't want to take that at SGM unless after Veyo where the downhill doesn't affect your heart.  Here are our splits:  1:  warmup  7:17   2:  6:27  3:  6:26  4:  6:30   5:  6:54 (huge incline, we were booking it, Kim did her's at 6:50)  6:  6:23  7:  6:17   8:  cooldown 7:24  (this actually felt ridiculously easy, even slow)  9: 8:10  (This felt like we were running in slow motion and there was a good hill up to Kim's house).    We were really happy with this run.  Especially for me since I just ran 18 on Saturday at 7:33 pace.  So getting excited, hoping this is a good sign.  Kim felt way awesome too.  We are getting in the zone.   Got to work tonight so that puts a damper on things but I see the light.  SGM is not far off now.  I can hold on for these next few weeks.  

Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
Comments
From AmberG on Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 15:59:53 from 209.33.225.76

Holy SHmowsers Girl! What a great run for a Monday morning! THat's a great confidence booster, you are going to do great in SG, I know it! That's amazing, , ,oh and nice run on Sat too! Glad you are feeling so good , , , ,!

From seeaprilrun on Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 16:39:52 from 205.172.12.229

Wow you are really putting in some fast miles. Amazing. I am absolutely amazed. You are in such great shape and you just keep getting faster and faster!

From Smooth on Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 17:02:39 from 71.32.238.75

WOW! What an awesome Mon morning run! You're on top of the world now! What a confidence booster! You're gonna be a ROCKSTAR at SGM.

From Teena on Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 13:08:01 from 155.97.96.173

Superwoman!!!

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