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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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What is better than a Friday morning run along the rivertrail.  I never, ever get tired of it, the cycles of it, the comfortable beauty of it.  I'm not sad to say goodbye to summer. I love Autumn.  It's like eating the frosting off the cupcake and chucking the rest in the trash. Pure perfection and exactly what you wanted in the first place.  What compares to the mellowed light, and cooler air?  The fading leaves, the dry alfalfa fields?  The roadside brown eyed susans and silkeweed? The lake's surface is still blue glass reflecting back the Ochre Mountains?  It's such a short moment of the year we get to enjoy the outside world the way it's meant to be.  This is why we run all year long.  To eventually witness, and bathe in the gentleness of the world on a morning like this. Forget the marathon, forget the races, forget everything and just melt into and accept the changing season.

Comments
From marion on Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 13:32:32

Outside is 100% the only reason to run! I am just having a really hard time not focusing on the winter ahead. I LOVE this weather SO much and all I can think is, "I am going to be SO cold, SO soon!" Focus Marion, focus!!! You are such a great example of focusing on each run and the beauty of that day. You have helped me SO much to always remember that each run is a gift!

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