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Hobble Creek Half 2026

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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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knee bugging me....ugh

so went out slowly and ran a mile walked a minute x 8 miles so 7 min walking

never went fast  here and there around neighborhood

avg pace 9:33  avg hr 143

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10 miles with Melanie starting at her house and to willow park and heading left

went until hot springs

avg hr 150

easy recovery pace but then per her fun app we did a little speed off her phone talking to us on peleton

4 x 30 seconds with min recovery jog then 4 x 1 min  with 2 min recovery jog ending with 4 x 30 secs again

1.3 miles left to her house

avg pace overall 8:53 first five miles 931 to 904 paces

muggy entire run /stale air and warm but not boiling

 

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went to chiro yesterday for right knee and came out with left hurt rib right under left breast no bueno, at work 

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not able to run

rib pain

lots of splenic flexure gas pain too belching tooting 

from special k cereal, too much iron

joints achy too  had this cereal three times this week a lot this am

also chicken salad with no bread yesterday and chia seed coconut pudding all ganged up on my digestion

went back to marc chiro 

really no help 

knee however a little more help

hard to sleep with this pain and belching

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called in sick for the pain and intense pressure and joint aches in knees mostly right stiffness, some sort of flare

slept until 730 am  

at 930 ibuprofen and tylenol taken at 5 am kicked in an rib pain not as intense so tested out stiff knee/body and rib in the 82 degree grossness, some cloud cover

ran super slow first mile 10:36 then 9:41, 9:29, 9:09 and 9:01.  avg hr 142

got out some kinks and rib i could feel but not have to stop pain, energy level low but certainly too hot for my liking but tolerable since cape cod runs

avg pace 935  stopped at uv peds potty 

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Race: Hobble Creek Half 2026 (13.1 Miles) 01:42:04, Place in age division: 1
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broken rib??  super painful after ajustment at chiro tues went back thursday no better and pretty painful all friday night also belching a lot just overall malaise

jogged one mile up canyon from bus drop off   

then another 1.5 miles

very painful running the first 8 miles then i walked 12 times

hr got up to 190 at one point

muggy had rained on way to mapleton  and streets all wet

muggy at race felt not really hot but more out of breath and no adrenaline and a high heart rate so just walked

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the walking twice during mile 9  x 2 ??  8:14

3 x walking in mile 10 - 8:15

three times again mile 11- 8:36

3 x mile 12 and longer- 8:59

and x 1 last mile - 8:04

last 0.05  I forgot to stop my watch.  so don't know pace. I was gingerly joggin.  it took 20 seconds to get to finish from mile 13

always this race is off by first mile bc it cant pick up in canyon.  

got 13.05 without it picking up so it would be right on.

first age

iced in ice water at finish

got rib taped after chiro checked it.

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