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Location:

Bountiful,

Member Since:

Oct 19, 2008

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Age Division Winner

Running Accomplishments:

Marathons - 15

Marathon pr 3:54:50

Short-Term Running Goals:

PR at St. George Half (painters) 1:51:20

 

 

 

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

Qualify for 2010 Boston - I did it!!!!

Personal:

Married for 28 years with three wonderful children, and two darling grand children.

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Elixir - 08 Lifetime Miles: 35.10
Elixir - Aqua Lifetime Miles: 91.90
Elixir - Metalic Blue Lifetime Miles: 70.20
Elixir - Red Lifetime Miles: 93.60
Elixir - Gray Lifetime Miles: 135.10
Nexxus Lifetime Miles: 19.50
Elixir - Light Blue Lifetime Miles: 184.80
Nike Free Lifetime Miles: 19.00
Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
30.000.003.000.000.0033.00
Elixir - Gray Miles: 6.00Elixir - Red Miles: 7.50Nexxus Miles: 3.00Elixir - Light Blue Miles: 13.00
Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
6.000.000.000.000.006.00

Leg felt great again but my endurance is gone...not sure if 9 weeks is enough to get into marathon shape!

Elixir - Gray Miles: 6.00
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Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
0.500.003.000.000.003.50

.5 mile warm up and then 3 miles at 8:41 3% decline.  This really felt good.  It was only three miles but it felt a 100% better than yesterday.

Lifted for legs - added the walking lunges and squats again

Spin

Comments(2)
Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
7.500.000.000.000.007.50

Ran with Brenda today.  I have been trying to get her to run with me for a long time now.  She is training of St. George too.  I this will be her first St. George but I think she had done 4 other marathon.  I had a great time it is so much more fun to run with someone than to run alone.

Elixir - Red Miles: 7.50
Comments(1)
Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
3.000.000.000.000.003.00

Three easy miles on the treadmill

Legs - walking lunges squats and then usual leg lifts

Yoga

Nexxus Miles: 3.00
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Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
13.000.000.000.000.0013.00

I drove to Orem, stayed with my mom and Kimmy.  I wanted to run 16 miles, at mile 9.5 my leg started to hurt again out of nowhere.  We had  3.5 miles to go just to get home.  We played it safe and just walked those miles.  By the end of the 13 miles my leg was really bothering me even though I had taken 800 mg of Advil.  The drive home was the worse part I had a hard time keeping pressure on the gas petal.  When I was almost home I remembered that I had cruse control silly me!  I iced my leg all day and today (Sunday) it feels a lot better.  

I do have to say that the best part of the run was the 3.5 mile walk with Kim.  We laughed and talked like we used to when we didn't care about our times.  I know that I am very competitive and not keeping track of my times will be hard but that is what I am going to do from now on.  I have been to Boston twice and if I never go back I am totally OK with that.  Starting Monday I run for fun and fun only.  That doesn't mean I wont push myself because, seeing how good you can be is fun.   I just don't care any more how fast I am and if I don't meet a time goal I won't beat myself up over it (how fun is that!!!!)

I am also going to start to go back to my spinning classes.  I have always loved spinning but I have cut back only going once a week so I can run more.  I am now going to run 3-5 miles before spin and then go to class at lease 3 times a week.  If I am slower, so be it I will be happier!!! (Yea me!!!!)

I have also decided to only run a few more marathons.  If I get into Boston this year I will run it again.  I will run St. George until 2014 when I get into the 10 year club. After that I think I will run a half marathons several times a year until I die or can't run anymore.

This is my plan for now and my main goal for St. George this year has gone from 3:45 to having a blast!!!!!  I am so looking forward to trying to reach this goal!!!!  If you see some slow runner with a smile on their face it is most likely to be ME!!!!!

Elixir - Light Blue Miles: 13.00
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Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
30.000.003.000.000.0033.00
Elixir - Gray Miles: 6.00Elixir - Red Miles: 7.50Nexxus Miles: 3.00Elixir - Light Blue Miles: 13.00
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