Mauri's Training

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Location:

Idaho Falls,ID,

Member Since:

Feb 07, 2010

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

2012 City of Trees Half Marathon 1:53:59

2012 Boston Marathon  4:11:24

2011 Top of Utah Marathon 3:55:10 (PR)

2011 Firecracker 5k Run 23:31

2011 Coeur d' Alene Half - Marathon  1:51:08 (PR)

2010 Boise City of Tree's Half - Marathon 1:59:57

2010 San Diego Rock & Roll Marathon 5:37  (this is what happens when you're undertrained)

2009 Spud Day Half - Marathon 2:06

2009 Mesa Falls Half-Marathon  2:15

Local 10k's 2009 & 2010

Short-Term Running Goals:

It's been a challenging year so far since Boston 2011.  When I got home from Boston my world changed when I found out I had some pretty severe food allergies. Since being tested I have been focused on building my health back up which has been a long slow process. What a difference it's made and I feel extremely blessed. For years I knew something was wrong and it's amazing to finally know that food can actually be a persons medicine to live a healthy life. 

Long-Term Running Goals:

"You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement."
- Steve Prefontaine

I'm hoping to start building more miles when I can and be injury free.  Maybe one of these days I'll be fast. Just for now I'm just very happy to be running.

Personal:

Happily married to Marlin Ordway. We've got 4 grown children between the two of us.  It's been fun watching them go through life - making mistakes and picking themselves back up.  I love seeming them happy and succeeding.

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 148.70
Total Distance
9.00

Intervals today.   I glad I don't dread Tue's as much as I used to.  The last week or so I've had a hard time getting my HR up into where it should be.

Ran 7x1200 w/400 recovery. 1 mile warmup. 7:53 (152) - 7:53 (155) - 7:41 (165) - 7:35 (173) - 7:30 (173) - 7:30 (175) - 7:24 (175). Finished with 2 mile cooldown between Zone 1 & 2.

Average HR for the whole run was 158.  I need to do better with getting my HR up earlier!  Hate to say it but I'm enjoying the interval work now.  When I started it was no fun at all.  I'm reading a book out of the library that was written in '79.  Pretty interesting to read what training was like back then.  Who would know running would be where it is now. 

My (younger) sister is getting to run her first marathon in SL in a couple of weeks.  Granted she's a single mom and has two girls.  But, she has not done the needed training!  My other (older) sister just ran her first half marathon. She started running alittle over a year ago.  She did great.   Time was 2:09 hrs.  I'm very proud of her! 

Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00Calories: 805.00
Comments
From Marlin on Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:25:02 from 174.253.163.220

Great workout honey, I have been able to run beside you the last few days and I have to say how impressive your runs have been, you have come a long way from not even a year ago at the S.D. R&R marathon. Keep up the great work.

From Burt on Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 23:12:14 from 206.19.214.144

Nice job guys.

From Mauri on Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 23:41:49 from 174.27.122.6

Thanks honey. Maybe those intervals are paying off. Hi Burt - how are you doing? How's your training going? Any races coming up?

From Burt on Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 01:50:55 from 72.223.90.79

Doing good. No races on the immediate horizon, but I'm plugging along. Hopefully I'll get into the St. George Marathon.

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