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Location:

UT,

Member Since:

Dec 31, 2007

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Marathon Finish

Running Accomplishments:

I ran my first marathon as a teenager in 1981 with my Dad (The Coronado Marathon). Since then I've run St, George (3x) Utah Valley (3x) Ogden (1 full, 2 halves) Park City (1 x) Boston Marathon (1x) Washington DC (1x) Moab Half Marathon (6x) ,Ye Old Freedom Festival 5 & 10K (a million x) and many others.

But I'm all done with that now.  I'm officially a jogger.

Short-Term Running Goals:

My running goal is to keep on keepin' on.

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

Jog into the sunset.

Personal:

I like being outside.

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Saucony Ride Lifetime Miles: 307.50
Wed, Jul 16, 2008
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6.004.0010.00

No one is more thrilled than me that Josse's recovery day is a perfect training day for me. Not quite deserving the term tempo run quite yet.  But Josse performed her service project for the day by pushing me (whining and wincing) through two fast miles (I'm usually not that big of a baby I swear it, but I'm happy to say that I'm now past the fear of completley coming apart in front of others). That's where the weakness lives and I'm going to conquer it and smooth it over.  I can, can,can :)  That was for Josse. Thank you!

Even though today felt a little low energy for me, I'm confident to report that my new threshold is 7:19-7:30 as opposed to the 8:02 of just last month.  I do want to average 8:15's eventually for long runs, but I'd like to be able to tempo 4 at sub 8:00 before summer's over without over training before St. George. 

Ave pace 8:29 (with 3 stops). Whew.

Comments
From marion on Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 11:45:57

Fantastic! That is just plain WOW!!

From luzylew on Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 11:59:01

See! Anything is possible once you come off the soda! JK. Let's not kid around here, I was practically crying. But thank you! I've just got to keep doing that so I can prove to myself that it wasn't an anomaly.

From josse on Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 11:59:47

You did so great today! I would be very proud of myself if I where you:) I very much enjoy running with you.

From luzylew on Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:01:28

Likewise Josse. Thank you!

From marion on Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:06:04

I haven't had a diet pepsi for about a week :D So how long do I have to be off it before I am as fast as you are ;)

Hey and if you are crying during the run, does that mean you will be less likely to cry when you find your kids eating noodles off of the floor? (literally off of the floor like puppies? :)

From Shauna on Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:10:14

Wow, great job today! I need to find a superfast person to push me down here. Actually, for me, just a plain "fast" person will do for now! You are turning into quite the speedracer!

From luzylew on Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:11:55

Yes! Get the crying over with early in the day, and then you're ready for even Ididntwashmyhandsafterthebathroom days--worse by far than floornoodles....

From luzylew on Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:17:09

I'm just so lucky to live where I live and to have found the blog after all these years of running. It's connected me to some pretty amazing and facinating people. If you're ever in Utah, you can come by for a run and I'll show you where all the fast superstar runners train....I can't promise to go fast, but I can show you where they run!

From Lucia on Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 09:33:29

WOW girl you are rockin'! It's amazing what we can do with some fast people motivating us. Nice job!

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