| Location: Kowloon Tong,Hong Kong Member Since: Jul 02, 2007 Gender: Female Goal Type: Olympic Trials Qualifier Running Accomplishments: Unaided:
5K - 17:11 (track Pre-kids and at BYU) (1998)
10K - 35:48 (track Pre-kids and at BYU) (1998)
10K - 35:34 (road - Shek Mun 10k 12/12)
1/2 Marathon 1:19:44 (UNICEF HM 11/12)
Marathon 2:47:08 (ING Hartford Connecticut 10/10)
Aided:
St. George Marathon 2:50:40 (10/08)
1/2 marathon - Hobble Creek 1:17:14 (8/08)
10K - Deseret News 10K - 35:02 (7/08)
Short-Term Running Goals: PR 1/2 marathon AGAIN
Long-Term Running Goals: Break 2:46 in Boston! Personal:
I used to run for BYU, but only after trying out three times and finally walking on, so I was never a star. However, it was wonderful to run with great people and under Coach Shane. When you run with fast people, you can't help to improve! I graduated BYU in 1998, and didn't run a race until 2002, after having my second child. My hiatus and other crazy life commitments have made my competitive running suffer, but the last couple of years I have tried to get back into it the best I can. I have been married since 1996, to Paul Lowry, who is a runner himself. I have three boys (my three rascals), ages 12, 10, and 8. After a great 2008 season, I was injured and eventually diagnosed and cross-diagnosed with Ankylosing Spondylitis, a type of arthritis disease, which precludes running for all but the most stubborn. So I am on medications, trying to stay healthy, and seeing my PT often. And running! Now beating the streets in Hong Kong. |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 36.47 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 37.47 |
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| 2009 Driving Miles Miles: 57.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 13.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 13.00 | Weight: 127.25 | |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| Ran with Sasha and Carolyn, and MaryAnn, and Jeff, and a Matt I don't know. I got to work at 5am, then realized I had no shoes (but had a running outfit). Knowing you can't do something makes you want it even more, so I borrowed Sarah's shoes for the run. She's an 8.5, I am an 8. I probably shouldn't have done it. Legs felt fine the first have, kind of sore second, but nothing sharp. |
| 2009 Driving Miles Miles: 9.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 11.12 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 11.12 |
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Ever feel like you are writing your own obit? Well, so met with MacK after a 4 mile bike ride warm up. Legs felt fine the first half, last half my bum got more and more sore. I got to 4.75 miles with MacK but she could tell I was sore, so when I tried to tag on the .25 she said to go back to my car and she is right. So I ran 4.77.
For a couple of weeks I have been doing 5 milers, but I feel by the end of the run like if I run more than 5 my legs are going to fall apart. So my question is: WHAT THE FREAK GOOD IS A FIVE MILE RUN TO A MARATHONER? It's no good at all, except perhaps for a very minor fitness atrophy rate reduction, and I'm not gaining more weight. The status quo cannot stand. I have a Friday doc appt and will insist on a bone scan. I will likely be out of commission for awhile. If I just had a diagnosis it would help, but Dr. Brady originally said
it was an SI joint issue, then said it was acting more like a pinched
nerve.
I have goals. This doesn't fit into the plan. I feel like the hulk ready to morph. PM: The Hulk's been tamed by a gruelling (ok gruelling for me) afternoon bike ride. 15.07 miles in 1:01:59, ave pace 4:07, I finally figured out how to ride this bike a little faster, by holding the side handle bars-genius! I got an appointment with Dr B for tomorrow, so that will be nice. I just need to remember to not take it out on him. I get way moody and somewhat unstable when I can't run and have no prospect of running.
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| 2009 Driving Miles Miles: 9.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 127.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.50 |
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So I went to the orem rec center to do CROSSTRAINING. 19 minutes on bike (warmed up then kept HR above 150) 26 minutes elliptical (HR in upper 160 most of the time) then changed and hopped in the pool. 40 minutes pool running. By this time I was tired and thirsty but forgot to get a drink. Did intervals after I got bored (took like 2 or 3 minutes to get bored), 1 length (well these are all half lengths, but it is an olympic size pool) hard, 1 easy, 2 hard, 1 easy, 3 hard, 1 easy, 2 hard, 1 easy, 1 hard, 1 easy, 2 hard, 1 easy 1 hard, then ran out of time. Went to Dr. Brady, he agrees to bone scan to rule out stress fracture. Scheduled for tomorrow, will have results by my Mon appt with him. Have a Tues appt with another dr, Dr. McLane, I think, and she'll prescribe me some steroids if she follows Dr. B's recommendation. I'll be on Aleve until then. No running. No more ab workouts, at least the kind I have been doing, because they require stability on the ball, which aparently I don't have. We'll see how it goes.
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| 2009 Driving Miles Miles: 20.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
| Went to Josse Gym (Josse's house) to bum off her nice elliptical machine, since it was too snowy to bike outside and I am off running. Ode to the bone scan machine: I want to feel all the chemicals inside, I want to feel. I want a stress fracture just to know that I'm alive, to know I'm alive. (italicized words modified, Ensign style).
(Name that band, winner gets the exclusive rights to Michelle's "We're cooler than everyone else" club). Got a bone scan today. Full body, and pelvic areas two ways. I could see the image as it scanned on a screen but couldn't interpret it. Must take some schooling or something. Bet who ever interprets it makes more than a Wal-mart checker :) (or a CPA for that matter).
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| 2009 Driving Miles Miles: 10.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.50 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.50 | Weight: 129.00 |
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Squat today.
Did get my results of my bone scan: "There are no areas of abnormal uptake of the neuclide that would suggest metastatic or inflammatory disease (actually the last word was d________e, the word was blurry but that's my guess)." Translation: I get to run tomorrow! Ha, ha, that was funny. But it does mean no stress fracture, right? So steroids here I come! Lyrics for today: "Show me what I'm looking for. Show me what I'm looking for." (no cheating)
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 126.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 8.85 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.85 |
| biked the Salem to Genola there and back, with a detour in a Salem neighborhood going up a side street to chat with Andy G. 26.54 miles. I really think on Sasha's 15 year old mountain bike with one gear I should get 2/1 credit for bike miles to run miles conversion, but my miles don't mean much right now anyway. It took about 2 hours (2:08 with breaks). I've always wanted to see Genola, but its a small town and there wasn't that much to see. I rode through downtown Santaquin and saw a mom and pop restaurant I'd like to try out. I'm stretching for anything interesting to write about. I guess I best shut up. Lyrics from my ipod, from a band which was only together for a few years, late 70's to early 80's, one of my favorite all time bands for their lyrics: "Learn to love me, assemble the ways, now, today, tomorrow and always. My only weakness is a list of crimes, my only weakness is . . . well, never mind, never mind." Anyone know it?
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| 2009 Driving Miles Miles: 9.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 7.50 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 7.50 | Weight: 127.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 36.47 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 37.47 |
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| 2009 Driving Miles Miles: 57.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 13.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 13.00 | Weight: 127.25 | |
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