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Dirty Girl Run

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Location:

Sandy,UT,USA

Member Since:

Jan 01, 2008

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

PR's: 50 Mile 13:07 (Pony Express 2010), 50K 8:35 (Buffalo Run 2008), 25K 4:02 (Buffalo Run 2006), Marathon 5:09:12 (St George 2008), Half Marathon 2:28 (Provo 2008), 10K 1:17, 5K 27:54

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

After 1/9/2010 - I am taking a year off from marathon length distances and focusing on building up my base speed on half marathons and shorter distances.

2010 Speed Goals:

  • Build up my base speed on training runs to 10 MM miles or better
  • Half Marathon - break 2:05 (9.5 MM avg)
  • 10K Goal 1 - break 1:00 (9.67 MM avg)
  • 10K Goal 2 - break 55 minutes (8.87 MM avg)
  • 5K Goal 1 - break 26.35 minutes
  • 5K Goal 2 - break 25 minutes

Long-Term Running Goals:

Long Term Goals:

  • Complete a 100 Mile race
  • Complete a 100 K race
  • Break 12 hours in a 50 mile race
  • Run all portions of the Wasatch 100 course
  • Break 5 hours in a marathon
  • Break 4.5 hours in a marathon
  • Qualify for and run Boston

Personal:

I need to figure out something inspiring or funny to write here. For now - I'll let the suspense build.

For further unexciting information on my life, check out my blog: Adventures in Running

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Race: Dirty Girl Run (4 Miles) 00:55:00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.000.000.000.004.00

Volunteered and then ran the Dirty Girls 4 mile race at Wheeler Farm this morning.  Lots of fun in the mud.  I ran where it was possible, but lot of times you were standing around waiting for a turn at an obstacle or walking through some deep water and mud where running could have potentially turned an ankle because of knee deep holes you couldn't see.

I was in the very last wave and didn't start running until almost 10:45 - so the course was even more chopped up.  The mud was fun.  The course was fun.  We had to climb over hay bales, run through tires, climb over walls, crawl under webbing, climb over webbing walls, hike through snow melt water and mud, climb over pipes, climb through pipes, rinse and repeat.  

I like these runs because they are not timed and fun.  I'll do more of them.  My only complaints would be that they needed to spread the mud obstacles out to avoid backups and why do people do these runs when they walk around the obstacles to avoid them.  Oh - and lots of people entered as teams - and wanted to stick together as teams which blocked the paths and slowed down the obstacles.

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Comments
From RAD on Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 15:55:52 from 98.202.17.113

You are brave. I HATE being wet...add mud, yuck. I'm not a prissy girl or anything, I just hate being wet. I don't mind playing in the mud, I just have to shower/clean directly afterward!

Glad you had a good time! I love to see the pics afterward :)

From Teena Marie on Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 19:14:31 from 67.2.95.170

Sounds awesome!!! (Except for the waiting.) It helped to get me excited for the Super Spartan on Saturday (which I am very nervous about.)

Nice job, Maurine! :)

From Maurine/Miles on Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 20:03:39 from 97.117.56.132

Teena - I didn't know we had the Spartan races here in Utah. I've wanted to do one where you jump the fire pit and such. Do you have a viking helmet ready? Let me know how it goes.

From allie on Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 01:09:41 from 24.10.191.18

sounds muddy. and fun. nice job, maurine!

From Smooth on Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 01:15:33 from 67.2.82.242

WAY to go girl! Sounds like fun! It must've been pretty hot mud at 10:45! :)

Teena ~ I didn't know you're doing the Super Spartan!

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