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Kahtoola Bigfoot Snowshoe Festival 5K

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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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Sat, Jan 26, 2013

Race: Kahtoola Bigfoot Snowshoe Festival 5K (3.1 Miles) 52:35:00, Place overall: 9, Place in age division: 3

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
6.50	0.00	0.00	0.00	6.50

Got the okay from my doctor to do showshoeing this week (of course - he also said it would be fine because people "don't snowshoes non-stop without breaks"). Signed up for the 5K at the Kahtoola Bigfoot Showshoe Festival. Figured the 10K would be too much. And I wanted to get above the muck.

Really foggy when I headed out. And the course was icy - so not groomed and you had to try to stay in the ruts or break the crust off the main trail.

There were 25 total participants in the 5K. I took 9th overall, 6th in women and 3rd in my age group. It was fun learning how to snowshoe. Biggest complaint - when the 9:00 races went off there were a bunch of people who were up near the front that had no intention of running a step and were walking side by side with friends. Get a clue folks! Start at the back.

For most of the race I alternated running 100 steps with walking 100 steps.

I had fun and did another lap of the 5K when I was done.

Next year - I plan on trying the 10K.

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

Comments

From leslie peterson on Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 07:55:04 from 67.166.127.63

That is awesome Maurine! Glad to see you are feeling better too!

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