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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 ProGrid V Lifetime Miles: 479.51
Saucony Ride Lifetime Miles: 841.34
Saucony Tangent Lifetime Miles: 150.93
Saucony Ride Lifetime Miles: 307.50
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Amanda Davis's husband Derek died today.   I ran daily with Amanda in 2005 & 2006. She and Derek and I ran the Ogden Half Marathon (Amanda's First half marathon ever) and then trained with her for the Wasatch Back Ragnar, some time before they moved in 2007.  I am in shock. Derek was just 37 years old.  He was hit while he and Amanda were running together at 6:30 a.m. while using crosswalk. The driver, an 18 year old high school student, who accidentally ran a red light.  Derek was in critical condition, in ICU last week and seemed to improve until yesterday when he took a turn for the worst.  He passed away just a few minutes ago. It seems inconceiveable that you could lose a 37 year old husband and father of 4 to a jogging accident.  I am heartbroken for Amanda and their children.  Just heartbroken. 

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I was able to get out the door at 7 and watched as the sun rose over the valley from the shoreline trail.  I will never get over, how the sun rises the day after a horrible tragedy-- indifferent to the suffering and seemingly end to our individual worlds.  The year or so that Amanda and I ran together each morning was so important to me.  It was when I was taking care of  my invalid and clinically insane father the year he died.  That was a lot of road therapy. We talked about everything important to two married women with small children and strange family histories.  My morning runs will now be tinged with sadness for quite a while to come.  Both Amanda and Derek ran, they were running together the morning he was hit by the car last week. It is incomprensible to me how much my friend's life is changed in just a few days.  We are neither the author of our beginning or our ending which leaves us free to create the narrative in between. 

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9:54 AP (9:24/10:22/10:20/9:18/9:39/10:13)

Temple loop 2.1. Rock canyon bowl 1. Home 2.2

I spent my run thinking about Amanda burying Derek today. I wish I was in NC to do the evening memorial run tomorrow. I've always taught my Kids to make eye contact with drivers while in a crosswalk and to watch for cars making rolling right turns, and cars behind them turning in from the left hand turn lanes. People are distracted while driving and with the increased number of bikes and runners in the road it seems worse than the days of mothers against drunk drivers.

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Single temple loop

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Canyon water fountain

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