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Location:

Orem,UT,USA

Member Since:

Nov 10, 2008

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

19 Marathons!

2007 St. George Marathon 3:07

2009 Boston Marathon 3:11:17

2009 Bryce Canyon 1/2 Marathon 1:24:48

2009 Top of Utah Marathon 3:03

2009 Halloween 1/2 Marathon 1:22:38

2010 Bryce Canyon 1/2 Marathon 1:23:48

2010 Top of Utah Marathon 3:01:51

2011 Bryce Canyon 1/2 Marathon 1:22:16

2011 St. George Marathon 2:58:19

2012 Provo City Marathon 2:59:24

2012 Bryce Canyon 1/2 Marthon 1:22:08

2012 St. George Marathon 2:54:39

Long-Term Running Goals:

I love to run!  I want to feel good and run for a very long time.

Personal:

My husband Brent and I live in Orem with our three kids ages 12, 10 & 7.  Brent is a Marriage and Family Therapist and I'm at home with the kids.  I used to be a CPA, but now I just do a little bookkeeping from home.  For a lot of years running a marathon was something I did to get back in shape after having a baby.  Just finishing was accomplishment enough, now I want to finish faster.

I ran the St. George Marathon in 3:18 when I was 18 and set a record for my age division 15-18.  Now I train with the girl who broke my record.  I love the marathon and half marathon.   Long runs are what keep me from going crazy.

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4 miles on treadmill.  It was zero degrees this morning!

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10 miles on treadmill at Legacy Center with Melanie.  Only 8 degrees outside and the smog is back.  2 mile warm-up, 7 x 1 mile @ 6:15 pace with 1:20 rest between.  I was supposed to have a 1 min rest, but it always ended up being a little longer, 1 mile cool-down.

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Met Melanie at the Legacy Center for a spin class but the class was ful.  We decided to lift weights first and Melanie got us going on a bunch of Body Rock stuff, basically doing one thing for a min, 10 sec rest, do another thing, etc.  We must have done that for over 30 minutes then we lifted a few other weights.  I was exhausted.  Melanie is a lot stronger than me.  Then I biked for about 20 minutes while she ran 3 miles.  I was so sore the next day.

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Ran 10 miles, 7 of it with Melody.  I was miserable. average 7:25 or so, I'm not sure. 

The night before I went with the church youth group while the youth sledded.  The hill was really steep and bumpy and I didn't want to get hurt so I stood there and froze as I visited with people.  All I could think about was the pioneers, since I just saw "17 Miracles" last week.  I was miserable with double layers of my warmest running clothes, snow pants, coat, big hat, gloves, etc.  The pioneers didn't have near as nice of clothes.  

It was just way to hard to freeze for hours in the evening and then get up and go out in the cold again.  It was only 8 or 10 degrees outside and I had a bad attitude about it. 

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4 miles on my treadmill.

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14 miles with Kim and Melody.  It was 6 degrees!  I wouldn't have gone if I wasn't meeting people.  I used to say "I don't do single digits," but this year I've done that several times.  I think this was my coldest run, but it didn't seem as hard as Thursdays.  I had to remind myself I won't go back out in it again until at least Thursday since I'm planning to go to the BYU indoor track on Tues.

After 11 miles Melody wanted to tempo and I said I didn't think I could make myself go any faster.  I wasn't breathing really hard, but my body felt like it could hardly go.  We started to pick it up and I felt like I was running in Jello.  Managed to pull out a few faster miles, but only by about 15 sec.  Average pace for the run 7:05. 

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