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Location:

SLC,ut,USA

Member Since:

Apr 12, 2008

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Half Marathon Finish

Running Accomplishments:

FINISHED my FIRST (and maybe LAST) Marathon!!

Short-Term Running Goals:

Get back into better running shape.  Train to run a good 1/2 marathon sometime in the nearish future (no commitments yet) 

Long-Term Running Goals:

Get into good shape and stay there. 

Personal:

I am married to the greastest guy and I have 5 awesome kids - 17, 16, 13, and 5 yr old twins.

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Total Distance
38.11
Total Distance
3.32

tough Monday run with Desiree and Jenny. 

We did 3.32 miles in 40:15 minutes with a 12:07 avg pace.  It was a 15/1 interval.

Hopefully tomorrow's 13 mile run won't kill me.

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Total Distance
13.46

Stats: - 13.46 miles / 2:43:41 / 12:09 avg pace on a 10/1 interval.

This was the toughest run yet.  It was just me and Jenny.  It's hard to keep up with her pace and i feel bad slowing her down.  I really struggled the last 3 miles and started feeling like I was going to throw up and had stomach cramps so I walked the last almost 2miles.  We went over 13 miles because of where we parked the car.  I am feeling  a lot better now.

I had trouble with my knees for more than half the run and my quads were burning.  It was just HARD!!  And discouraging.  How in the world am I going to make it through a marathon?  When I have this hard of a time with a half marathon distance?

The route was great though -we did the Old Mill to Murray route but instead of going to Mimi's we just kept going down Vine St to State then over to 4800 S and west to the Jordan Parkway trail and then followed that south to Winchester where we had parked my car.

Does anyone know how many miles you can run on the parkway?  I know there are interruptions in the trail at some points but I don't know where.

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Total Distance
4.20

Went for  a power walk with Jenny and Desiree.  We just did laps around the park/field near our house.  It felt good to stretch some very sore muscles.  we were out for an hour.

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Total Distance
4.00

Did a nice little easy run with desiree this morning.  We did some walking and I actually felt better running that walking.

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Total Distance
4.00

did the same little easy route again today.  jenny and Desiree both came.  We were a little slow to get going and did some extra walking.  But at least we still got up and went.

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Total Distance
9.13

It was great to do an "easy" long run today.  Our group went to the Jordan Parkway.  Desiree and Jenny went ahead and leslie and I took a little slower, easy pace.  That was great for me.  It was so good to catch up with Leslie and  hear more about her 1/2 marathon at Bryce and hear more about how Paul is doing (her son-in-law).

Generally I don't like doing an out and back route but i don't mind it on the parkway.  It doesn't seem the same and it's so nice to run that mostly flat course in the shade.  it would be great to live along there.  It was fun to see other runners that we knew.  We met Kim and her friends, fellow blogging runners.

Stats from today: 8 miles in 1:40 with an avg pace of 12:31.

 I finally got a picture of me on my blog.  This was taken this morning on the Jordan River Parkway.  I was with my friend, Leslie, our mother hen.  Her husband, Harold, was biking the trail with his grandson and stopped to take our picture.

Went on a short, 1 mile bike ride with my hubby.  We were just testing out our bikes that have not been in working condition for awhile.  He got them tuned up because we are going camping next week.

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Total Distance
38.11
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