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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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
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Recovery day.

I've been reflecting a bit upon the past season, yesterday's 'fun run', training advice from Sasha and all that stuff (I had a long drive home alone).....

Starting tomorrow I will do what Sasha recommends and run 4 miles a day 6 days a week and then take Sundays off.  I am starting to see my potential as a runner after years of feeling I would never be able to run because I was too slow and too heavy.

Also - time to get back on my diet and eat healthy again and see if I can get a few more pounds off - or else pack on the muscle.  Until the end of the year I will switch over to my strength training workouts (weight lifting) and then will switch back to the endurance training in January.

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Route A - townhouse to work 

Mile 1  - 11:07 - feeling good - working off stress from work

Mile 2 - 10:57 - feeling tired already

Mile 3 - 11:20 - starting to drag

Mile 4 - 10:52 - uphill, not bad, but tired

 

Later: sauntered the 2.2 miles back home after work while visiting with Leslie on the phone and planning our training.

Mizuno green (6.2)


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Route B - Out and Back on 7th East

Dragged my little body out of bed in the cold, dark morning.  Put on all my flashy thingies and headed out the door.

Mile 1 - 12:20 - zombie phase

Mile 2 - 12:04 - hungry

Mile 3 - 11:59 - glad no one jumped out at me from the cemetary as I ran by

Mile 4 - 11:34 - anxious to get home

It was kind of peaceful running with less traffic around. I could just listen to the pitter patter of my Vibram FiveFingers hitting the ground. And - cars in Sandy don't aim at me as much in the dark as they did in Layton.

Must apologize to the neighbors.  My cell phone alarm had been ringing for 30 minutes when I got home.

I'll have to get up a little earlier.  It was a tight fit getting in the run, showering and getting dressed and making it into the office by 7 a.m.

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OK - I didn't want to run this afternoon, but forced myself to get out the door.  I had no energy when I got home from work - but that may have had to do something with the fact that I got busy with computer and database issues at work and forgot to eat regularly, so think I was only at 600 calories.  I swigged down an Ensure and headed out the door.

I was going to find a 4 mile route around some of the neighborhoods near where I live.  Didn't quite work out how I planned. I ran along 7th East to 9400 South, then down to Trax and along the Trax line to 8000th South. I needed about 1/2 mile extra (I thought) to make my loop, so turned into what I hoped was a route behind my condo complex that would loop me around. It turned out to be a no exit subdivision and dumped me back and 1/2 mile from where I entered it. Needless to say - I got in more than I wanted or needed.

Mile 1 - 11:49 - no energy

Mile 2 - 11:54 - feeling a little better

Mile 3 - 12:04 - tired and bummed out that I was back where I started

Mile 4 - uphill - 12:16 - can I stop now?

Mile 5 - more uphill and no energy - 12:30


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I was not happy when the alarm clock went off at 5:30 - but knew that I had a hair appointment right after work and then am going to Provo for the Homecoming Spectacular with my dad - so it was either drag my butt out of bed now or run at 10:30 at night.

I ran my out and back loop today without taking my Garmin. Shortly after the turnaround point, I took off my gloves because I was getting warm.  Then, around 2 1/4 miles, I started dry heaving. (NOT fun). I slowed down a little and pushed up the sleeves of my long sleeved running shirt to see if that would help. The feeling finally passed before the 3 mile mark. (Of course, under Sasha's definitions - water is bad for me because that is the only thing I partook of before running :)). Finished in 47:18.

I either need to get up earlier or start work later because it is such a rush around to run, shower, inhale a bit of food and get to work before 7 (plus I had to stop at the store this morning). If I want to start riding my bike to work, I might need to do both. As it is, I am the first person in the office each morning and the last person on the IT Team to leave each night.

Weight - 143 - getting back down there.

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Did the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk/Run at Liberty Park this morning with Leslie, Harold, Odee, Marion, Marion's crew of girls, Kelli, and Lynn.  I know there were more names - but I forget them.  Lynn is hopefully going to join the blog today.  

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