Training for a Belt Buckle

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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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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Vibram FiveFingers Lifetime Miles: 452.95
Montrail Streak Lifetime Miles: 195.69
Montrail Vitesse (9.0) Lifetime Miles: 89.75
Mizuno Wave Ascend 3 (2009) Lifetime Miles: 228.50
Brooks Advantage (Blue) Lifetime Miles: 271.42
Crocs Black Lifetime Miles: 80.85
Vibram FiveFingers - Black Lifetime Miles: 65.50
Hoka Mafate Lifetime Miles: 36.95
Hoka Stinson Evo 2012 Lifetime Miles: 53.50
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
39.200.000.000.0039.20
Mizuno Wave Ascend 3 (2009) Miles: 5.00Vibram FiveFingers Miles: 14.00Brooks Advantage (Blue) Miles: 13.40Montrail Streak Miles: 6.80
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.000.000.000.005.00

Had to go in to work to finish a project that had to be done for a client after EOD Friday. 2.5 miles each way.

Mizuno Wave Ascend 3 (2009) Miles: 5.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
9.000.000.000.009.00

Still no energy this morning.  Tried to push my pace, but my lungs and throat just wanted to make me puke.  I really hate the gaggy feeling I have between snot running down the back of my throat and mucus coming back out.  

Enjoying some lovely butter pecan Ensure on the rocks and then off to work.

PM - ran to the gym, did a chest, triceps and core workout. Ran home. 10 x around the world core workout.

Tuna fish is calling my name.

Vibram FiveFingers Miles: 9.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
3.000.000.000.003.00

Too lazy to get out of bed today.  

For the first time in a week and a half I am starting to feel better today.  Still have lots of mucus and crud coming out of me - but I don't feel horrible all the time today. Yay!

I will fit in a workout this afternoon if I can and then am going to see Hello Dolly at Hale Center Theater tonight.

PM - Did Back and Biceps lifting tonight.  3 miles running on the treadmill.

Brooks Advantage (Blue) Miles: 3.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.800.000.000.006.80

Met Leslie and walked the first 2 miles uphill on the Little Cottonwood Trail this afternoon. Between the uphill and the heat, it was toasty.  Les turned around at mile 2 and I continued to the top - running as much of it as I could (about 2/3 of the remaining trail). Ran the entire 3.25 miles down and then walked the little side trail as a cooldown/stretching period.

Around the world core x 10.

Montrail Streak Miles: 6.80
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.000.000.000.005.00

Just ran 3 miles with the dog this morning.  

I don't know whether to be concerned about my lungs or not.  The past three days have been 'different'.  I go to bed at night with high expectations for my workout in the morning. Then I wake up and my lungs feel 'tired'.  I can't explain it - but I can really feel my lungs when I wake up and they are not happy.  They don't bother me later in the day, but take away my motivation for working out in the morning.

Also, I have had the ball of my right foot hurt for the past 2-3 weeks.  It is most sensitive when I walk barefoot, but I can also feel it when I am running.  Strangely enough, it hurts less running in the FiveFingers than in padded shoes.  I felt the ball of the foot several times on my trail run yesterday.  It is not a painful hurt, but feels like a bruised foot would - however, it doesn't get better or worse and it does not stop me from working out.

Maybe I'm just getting old and falling apart.  Any thoughts?

Update: Went to the doctor who says my lungs are clear - no sign of infection or asthma.  However, considering the amount of training I do and my fitness level, she says that maybe there is some kind of upper respiratory infection/inflammation, so we are trying a combination of antibiotics and inhaler to see if they help.

PM - 2 miles with the dog.  We headed down to a snowcone shack and shared a sugar free snowcone.

Vibram FiveFingers Miles: 5.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.400.000.000.0010.40

2 miles running with Twilight, then another 8.4 on my own.

Brooks Advantage (Blue) Miles: 10.40
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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Too tired to do an early morning run.  After 15 hours of work yesterday in an office building with a dead air conditioner, I got home after midnight and didn't fall asleep until 1 a.m.  Got up with enough time to do a quick puppy walk and back in the office by 6:45 a.m.  

Maybe later????

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
39.200.000.000.0039.20
Mizuno Wave Ascend 3 (2009) Miles: 5.00Vibram FiveFingers Miles: 14.00Brooks Advantage (Blue) Miles: 13.40Montrail Streak Miles: 6.80
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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