The Shadow Racer

August 2012

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Location:

UT,United States

Member Since:

Jan 13, 2012

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Highschool Champ

Running Accomplishments:

Three Year Varsity XC and Track runner at Desert Hills High School

School record in 3200m

Some road racing medals


Short-Term Running Goals:


Long-Term Running Goals:

Qualify for Boston Marathon

Finish an Ironman

Run until I'm dead!

Personal:

I am currently attending Southern Utah University and absolutely love it there!  I am not running for the school, but am training for road races. I love being outside and am always looking for new adventures!

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Time to bring myself back into the RunningBlog community! I was going to go back and fill in the miles from track season and summer running, but instead I'm just going to start over today. 

Life has changed a ton over the last few months! My track season had a disappointing ending when, out of nowhere, my mile times slowed down by at least twenty seconds.  I was constantly tired and dizzy.  I figured it was just burn out and tried to push through it.  Finally, Region came and after a horrible mile race, I tried to come back and do well in the two mile but ended up fainting with a lap and a half to go. This led to a series of blood tests.  At first, we found that I was low on iron as well as quite a few other essential vitamins and minerals.  The plan was that I take a month off of running and take some supplements.  When none of this helped, I was given another series of blood tests and on top of the anemia we found a combination of different blood glucose problems.  Things still aren't completely sure, but the official diagnosis for now is a mixture of Hypoglycemia and Pre-Diabetes.

This, along with many other discoveries, events, promptings, and gut-feelings led me to decide not to run in college.  It's not that I was quitting because I was realizing that it would be hard and that I'd have to be very specific in my new lifestyle to be able to run so much and keep my health in check.  It's just that this whole experience finally humbled me enough to listen to my gut that had been warning me for months that running for Dixie State wasn't right for me.  I won't go through all the emotions that came with this decision since I posted all about it on www.freshman19.blogspot.com, but I will say that it was unbelievably hard for me since I knew that I could be successful on the team and that it was something I had dreamed of since I was a child.

After deciding not to run, I realized that there really wasn't a whole lot for me at Dixie State and after a lot of pondering, I decided to go to SUU.  I ran with the high school team all summer and had a blast.  Now, I'm up here in Cedar and really liking it.  Until today, I've only been running 3 to 4 miles a day since I got here last Thursday.  But with the soft rain and great weather today, I decided to go a little longer and hit 6 miles. 9:31/mile.  Nice and slow, but extremely enjoyable.  Even though I'm not going to run on a college team, I know that I will always love running and will hopefully have a lot of success in road races, Summer Games, etc!

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What a crazy week it's been! I started classes and work on Monday. I have 5 classes right in a row, then work an eight hour shift.  It hasn't been awful, but i know that I won't be able to keep it up when classes are in full swing, so I asked my boss to bring me down to part-time status (that's what the manager told me it would be anyway!)

4 miles today on the Main Street Dorm Loop (I guess it's time to start naming the runs I do up here!).  Not sure on the pace, but I know it was slow. Have not been putting in enough miles, it's time to get back into shape.

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