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Location:

Mesa,AZ,

Member Since:

Apr 04, 2007

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Marathon Finish

Running Accomplishments:

Prs:

1 mile: 6:31

5K: 23:37

Half Marathon: 2:04

My first post-high school 5K, in which I thought I was going to die

The first time I won my age division. Yippee!

My first half marathon, in which I attack Sasha

The time I beat my high school PR for the 5K (as a 31 year-old mommy of 3!)

My first 5K barefooted

Short-Term Running Goals:

I'm just getting back into running after a long break to have my last child. I would like to race some 10Ks, a half, and a marathon in the next 2 years.

Long-Term Running Goals:

Be the oldest woman to complete a marathon. Yea! But hopefully I will also complete some BEFORE I geezer up, like, before I'm 40 for sure. I think it would be fun to dress up really strange for marathons, like impersonating celebrities and stuff. Except I don't really like celebrities, as a rule, so maybe I'll have to stick to the age old question of ninja, or pirate. I say ninja. *Hyah!*

Personal:

I am happily married to James W (Cool Runnings). We have 3 boys and 1 opinionated little girl. I love reading and I'm also a news junkie. I am a stinker.

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Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	0.00

Mon, Jul 02, 2007

Slow miles	Fast miles	Total Distance
2.00	0.25	2.25

2.25 on the treadmill.

1 mile at 5-5.5 mph

1 mile at 6 mph

.25 at 7 mph

I was happy to see that I could still run at 6 mph with my mouth closed. It feels about the same as 5.3 used to feel. And REALLy interesting to me was that 7mph (about 8:30 pace) feels as 6 mph felt 2 months ago. So there must be progress going on here. Yea!

I must confess that I was up really late last night. I read a rather spooky book about Vampires and I think it kept me up. "Twilight." Very engrossing, but extremely mushy. Anyone here read it? I'm still trying to decide if I would recommend it. Delicious reading, but made me blush for fully a third of the time I was reading it. Much like a twinky kind of a read. May taste good when you're reading it, but probably not good to consume too much! I'm a little bit of a book snob. My favorite books are ones that are meaningful, like "The Hiding Place" or "To Kill a Mockingbird." Favorite recent book is "The Secret Life of Bees". Ooooh I really like books that illuminate a foreign culture, too. "Wild Swans" is probably my favorite in this genre. Anyway, Happy Monday.

Night Sleep Time: 0.00	Nap Time: 0.00	Total Sleep Time: 0.00

Comments

From Heber on Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 18:09:20

Glad to hear you are getting faster. That's very gratifying isn't it?

Debbie loves "Wild Swans" also. If you like foreign stuff you might like "A woman of Egypt" which Debbie read a while back. More recently she read "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri (the one who wrote "the Namesake"). It's a collection of short stories. They are mostly sad but pretty good Debbie says.

From Sasha Pachev on Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 18:23:43

Aerobic fitness improves with consistent training. You should see huge improvements in the next 6 months. How did you enjoy the smell of James' socks?

From Lybi on Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 21:03:02

How cool! I am just starting to read "The Namesake."

Sasha, I'm glad you reminded me. Only because of you, I will actually do it. (Athough any woman married to a runner knows the socks are not really a deterent. It's the shorts.) Lets just admit it. Man-sweat could concievably be refined into a chemical weapon. Ewww! We give up! We give up!

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