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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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Thu, Aug 14, 2008
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
11.500.000.000.0011.50

I'm giving myself 11.5 miles tonight.  I left at 4:30 and biked 33 minutes to Leslie's house (about 4.3 miles).  I never realized it was almost entirely uphill - boy was that not a lot of fun ?!?!

Les, Harold and I went up Millcreek Canyon and Harold took off biking in one direction while Leslie, Odee (the teeny dog) and I went the other way.  We stopped every 3/4-1 mile to make sure that we gave Odee enough water - so our pace was pretty slow.  We were going to go out for an hour, then decided to go to 4 miles, then decided to see how far the trail went and reached the end at 4.7 miles.  After snapping a couple of pictures we headed back. It was a lot cooler then and I felt really good running. It was actually a pretty leisurely pace because neither of us wanted to carry Odee out if he got too tired. Spoiled dog - he had two women holding up ziploc bags of water for him! (9.4 miles on the trail).

All in all - a great evening (Les even gave me and the bike a ride home since it was dark). I sent Leslie off with my favorite foot massager and she was limping pretty bad - so I hope by now she is icing those heels.

Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
Comments
From marion on Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 12:09:30

Great run. You are a good friend to Les- make her take care of her heels! How are is you knee? Is it all healed?

Which marathon are you doing next week?

From tarzan on Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 13:15:04

Marion - I am doing Park City on August 23rd and then hiking/running Mt. Timpanogos with my son on August 24th.

Knees are still a little tender - but they don't get any worse than when they start hurting - so I just ice them and tape them.

From marion on Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 13:46:24

Hey- do you ever put the ice pack on the knee and then wrap the pack with an ace bandage? THat is my favorite way. I sure hope it gives up and gets better :) You are going to do great in your marathon! When is your ultra?

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