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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:	0.00	Month:	39.47	Year:	532.59
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

Mon, May 24, 2010

Slow miles	Fast miles	Total Distance
4.00	3.00	7.00

and much to my wondering eyes did appear....Santa Claus in May with His Eight Reindeer!! Even a little ol' lady said "Merry Christmas" to me on her way in to the PG rec center as I was leaving. Oh yes of all things today SNOW and HIGH WINDS!!! Snow in huge flakes accumulating on my car. I refused to brush it off. I had had enough of car scraping!!! The poor trees!!! Many were losing branches due to the heaviness of the four inches of snow along with the array of green leaves. Huge branches just hanging on to telephone wire and others just broke off. Despite my mood easily being swayed by the weather, I managed to get a decent work out done on the mill. Wanted three miles at my new MP (LOL) on the TM sandwiched between two warmup and two cooldown miles. This is Melanie's plan to get my butt in shape for SGM and a possible sub-3. Time will tell. I am thinking more of a 3:03-3:05. I am thinking this is my last attempt so I will give it my all. Seriously Melanie and I vow to normalcy after this fall. I hadn't put in any workouts like Melanie so now is the time to get cracking and see if I can do some similar ones and reap the same benefits. I ran the three at .5% grade, paces 6:53, 6:49, 6:40. No music so this felt like I could do several more if I had some music. I get really bored just looking at the junk that plays on TV or at my TM that shakes. My hamstrings were really tight but now they are not. I will take it up by two miles every week to a max of 16 per Mel's plan for me. Got to think about my double 20 miler coming up Wed and Thurs at a nice and easy pace. So not liking the idea of a 50 mile trail run with several miles in DEEP snow!! Hopefull the weather is nice. The snow is gonna be there regardless. No time to melt now. Met a guy at the gym that had to back out of the 50 miler due to a IT band problem. He runs with Carl Metlzer (sp.?) the "not human" human. He has the course record at Squaw Peak I believe. Man, I better start preparing to prepare for this. I need compression socks I was told today to not feel the ice/snow cutting at my legs. This is gonna be good!!!

Night Sleep Time: 0.00	Nap Time: 0.00	Total Sleep Time: 0.00	Weight: 0.00

Comments

From seeaprilrun on Mon, May 24, 2010 at 17:43:42 from 68.103.243.136

Snow?! It was 90 degrees in my neck of the woods today! I'm actually jealous of your cold weather, truth be told. Why can't it just be 50 degrees for my runs all the time? Sounds like a tough plan but must be effective because Melanie is a speed demon! I have secret plans to use my treadmill for similar marathon pace training. Your 50 miler is going to be a true adventure!

From Teena Marie on Mon, May 24, 2010 at 23:45:25 from 174.52.45.85

I just shake my head when I think about how hardcore you are!!!! :)

Sending sub3 vibes your way (now thru Oct. 2).

From Smooth on Tue, May 25, 2010 at 16:56:14 from 174.23.172.155

Sounds like a GREAT SGM plan! You're gonna rock it!

I don't envy you running Squaw Peak with all that snow up there. Compression socks sounds like a good idea. Maynard is running it. He ran it two years ago when there was a snow/rain storm in the morning. I remember looking up at the mountains while sitting at the Springville High stadium after the Nestle 5K and worrying about him up there! He did awesome though! GOOD LUCK with your back to back 20milers this week!

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