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Cottonwood Heights Thanksgiving Day 5K

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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:

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Thu, Nov 26, 2009
Race: Cottonwood Heights Thanksgiving Day 5K (3.1 Miles) 00:31:17
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
2.500.003.100.005.60

RHR 49

Probably a mistake to run today as bad as I felt, but I was tired of paying for races in 2009 and not running them.

Did 1.75 mile warmup, including part of it with Odee and then passed him back to Harold and Leslie as they started their walk of the course.

I knew that I would not PR because this is a tough course.  Battled nausea during the warmup, so decided to hope to break 30 minutes and do a tempo run instead of racing.

They asked walkers and people with strollers to stay near the back. Of course, no one listened, so a lot of the first mile was spent trying to gain some position.  Easier to do on the uphills when even more people were walking.  However, at that point I also knew I had no energy and wasn't going to break 30. The body was just too wiped from being sick.  Did what I could to push on the downhills, but by the end I was totally out of energy and couldn't even sprint the last .1 mile.

31:17 total      10:14 (uphill), 10:16 (mix of uphill and down), 9:58

Better than a couple of years ago, but not a race time I am very happy with.

 

3/4 mile cooldown including part of it with Rachel.  Leslie gave me some wassail to drink on my way home.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Brooks Advantage (Blue) Miles: 5.60
Night Sleep Time: 7.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 7.00Weight: 0.00
Comments
From gdoc on Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 13:21:46 from 98.202.207.87

Nice one. I agree this is a tough course. First time I have run it and was impressed with how many show up. Nice on you to get out despite being under the weather.

From leslie peterson on Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 13:32:46 from 174.52.158.81

Good job, I would be proud of that time! Have a great Thanksgiving!

From Teena on Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 22:47:21 from 174.52.45.85

Sorry you still aren't feeling all that hot! So like you to race anyway!!! :)

Congrats on the race -- even though you are not thrilled with your time.

Hope you had a great Thanksgiving!

From RAD on Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 00:43:33 from 76.27.12.70

You did SO well considering. I probably would've walked feeling that way :)

Thanks for running me in, it was SO great to see you at the end...I've rarely had people there to run me in and I LOVE it! THANKS so much, you are amazing!! I hope you're feeling better and t-day was good - one way or another.

From Maurine/Tarzan on Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 09:50:09 from 97.117.58.207

We actually had a great Thanksgiving. We did join my sister's family and I started feeling better. It was nice to spend a lot of time with my son in the car too :)

From marion on Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 10:48:46 from 71.213.112.70

Nice race :) You are trooper! I am sorry your weren't feeling well :( Being sick is such a BUMMER.

did you have a nice thanksgiving?

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