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
15.750.000.000.0015.75
Brooks Advantage (Blue) Miles: 5.75Montrail Vitesse (9.0) Miles: 7.50Mizuno Wave Ascend 3 (2009) Miles: 2.50
Night Sleep Time: 37.50Nap Time: 1.00Total Sleep Time: 38.50Weight: 0.00
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2 miles walking the dog this morning after baking 2 cakes for my nephew's mission farewell and before heading up for the farewell.  It was cold out.  Ankle feeling okay after yesterday's run.

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Really tired when I went to bed, but got an emergency IT phone call that kept me awake another 2 hours.

PM

45 minutes actual workout time on my Wii Fit.

67 minutes on the stationary bike.

 

Rachel and I have been sharing emails this evening. Sad story of a person we know who passed away unexpectedly on Christmas Eve at 38 years old.  He had so much to live for but wouldn't take care of his Type I Diabetes and drank too much and ended up having some kind of heart failure.  That is way too young to die!  I've been passing along memories to my ex-husband who is the main speaker at his funeral.

Night Sleep Time: 6.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.00Weight: 0.00
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RHR 58.  Woke up sick.  Decided it would be best to take a rest day.  After work I took a nice nap.  Between that, vitamins and Emergen-C, I think I kicked the virus out pretty quickly.

Night Sleep Time: 7.50Nap Time: 1.00Total Sleep Time: 8.50Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.750.000.000.005.75

RHR 48. Feel a lot better this morning.  Did some calculations and if I run 13.11 miles in the next 2 days I will pass 1600 miles for the year.

PM - 5.75 miles on the treadmill.  Had to stop to get to a viewing.

Brooks Advantage (Blue) Miles: 5.75
Night Sleep Time: 6.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.50Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.500.000.000.007.50

RHR 49.

Needed to get in 7.5 miles today. Started my run at 2:30.  It was sunny and gorgeous out and I was taking off layers.  First two miles around Wheeler Farm.  Running through the snow was fun, but my achilles was making little whimpers, so thought I would try a new route from there.  Of course, shortly after that it got cloudy and started cooling down.  Ran down 9th East from Wheeler Farm to the Van Winkle. Then turned onto Van Winkle and ran up it to Golds Gym. Did a quick pit stop and water break there.  Headed back over to 9th East on 5600 South and took that to Vine Street, then over to 9th again and back to Wheeler Farm.  Nothing spectacular but I passed the 1600 mile marker.  Haven't used cross training miles in months as part of my running miles.  

Stopped by Wasatch Running and picked up a pack of heel inserts.  I've been reading that raising the heel takes pressure off the achilles and they agreed with me, so will give this a try.

Later - if I get ambitious - I might do Wii Fit.  I will be blogging my year end summary in my other blog, so check it out later tonight.

Thanks to all my wonderful running friends for supporting me this year!

Montrail Vitesse (9.0) Miles: 7.50
Night Sleep Time: 8.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 8.00Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
2.500.000.000.002.50

Slept in - sure felt good.

The dog and I did an easy 2.5 mile recovery run.  Tried the heel inserts and that seemed to help.

50 minutes on the Wii Fit.

Mizuno Wave Ascend 3 (2009) Miles: 2.50
Night Sleep Time: 9.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 9.50Weight: 0.00
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Achilles was a little sore today, so went to the gym and did 120 minutes on the stationary bikes.

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
15.750.000.000.0015.75
Brooks Advantage (Blue) Miles: 5.75Montrail Vitesse (9.0) Miles: 7.50Mizuno Wave Ascend 3 (2009) Miles: 2.50
Night Sleep Time: 37.50Nap Time: 1.00Total Sleep Time: 38.50Weight: 0.00
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