| 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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| Very much the same. I am getting sick of explaining my injury to all my acquaintenances. I know they mean well, but explaining it over and over is like pouring salt in my wounds. On a positive note I think I am coming to grips with losing all fitness and with perhaps never being as good as I was in 2008. It was a great ride. I hope to be able to return, but I need to find peace with the path God has placed in front of me and worship the running idol no more. I've got to keep it all in perspective. It would be nice to get my health back so I can be a functional mother, but even that is not up to me. I have something to learn yet from this and I resolve to learn it ;)
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| PT appt this morning. e stim, very lower back ;), then ultrasound, massage, Steve maasage and discussion, then more bum e stim and icing. Plan is to walk10 min really easy in the pool on Wed and swim with my arms. Then take Thursday off, then Friday do 10 min spin with no resistance if I don't get a negative reaction to Wednesday. I saw KellieS at the grocery store when shopping with my family and I was in a wheel chair (the jazzy was in use). My first reaction was mortification, being caught in a wheel chair at the grocery store. But then we had a really nice chat. Thats the difference real friends make. They help you feel at ease and accept you however ridiculous you are. It was like a ray of sunshine and it made me realize how starved I am for interaction beyond my tight circle of home-work-doctor. Thanks for not laughing at me Kellie :)
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| Temple this afternoon, wow they have a whole row of handicap spaces and I can't use them. It is hard crutching up that hill, and hard to put on the brakes going down the hill. So I did get my workout today :) Feeling spiritually in the zone. Rediscovered K-LOVE (I always stop listening when there's pledge drive, I do this with NPR too). Too much repetition, but definitely positive and uplifting.
Went to KellieS and TylerS' home for tevoing of American Idol (I invited myself over and they graciously agreed). I drive up and there's a bright blue handicap sign on the front door, a hilarious touch. It was fun to hang out with them and dispute who should be the next AI, edgy boy or sweet meek boy (I vote edgy). Then we had a nice chat. They tried to fatten me up through various snacks but I was strong :) Pain was really nonexistant today. Lower back soreness right from morning straight through the day. Funny how when my SI pain goes lower back pain emerges. I could feel some slightish dull pain by late night (about a 1). I am very encouraged!!!!
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| About 14 minutes of swimming with arms, scuba mask, and running belt around waist. I look choice, especially when you add in the crutches while getting in the pool. The good thing is people hardly ever ask to share the lane with me. I look too odd. 500m total freestyle, first 400m in 10:07. I was taking it pretty easy, but got heartrate up to 108 by the end. This is the longest I have used the scuba gear while swimming. My mouth got so dry from breathing into that pipe, noticable after 10 min. Then 10 min of walking in the pool with water about 4" shy of shoulders. My weak leg is weak. Go figure. No pain. Right side just feels different everywhere, but noticably in the bum, not pain, just a feeling that its different.
Will do nothing tomorrow, see how body reacts to this, then will try to repeat Fri. Steve wanted me to spin with no resistance Fri but I bowed out. Even without resistance I think the rotations are risky for my joint. I'll give in and do it next week. He is the PT after all. I didn't even know what an SI joint was until Feb 2009.
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| Felt pretty good, tired and allergies. pain/discomfort would occasionally come to SI area, 0-2, but mostly 0. Did rotational exercises with no ill effect.
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600yds swimming, first 400 in 9:28, and total in 14:30 hr 111 at the end. 10 min walking in pool--just feels wierd to do it. I have some feeling in SI/bum/back area. Its hard to know if its my joint/muscles getting used to movement again or if this even low level of activity is too much for it. Have PT appt this morning. PT says if I feel good throughout today that tomorrow I should walk holding up some of my weight on the arm rests on a treadmill for 5 minutes. I feel like I am in Cinderella: Wicked stepsisters: What you said Cinderella could go to the ball?? Wicke stepmother: I said "IF". (wicked cackle). Well, I started having persistent if mild pain in the evening, up to a persistent 1-2 by bedtime, shifting in bed brought spikes pain up to 4 in pain and some tears too. The bad thing is if I can't handle 10 minutes of walking in the water then what indication do I have that I am healing or that I'll ever get off these crutches?
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Woke up with pain at a 3, then walking around its a 0-1, with pain of 2-3 if I bend, twist, or other such movements. I am trying to keep my chin up and be grateful this trial is of a temporary and temporal nature. I am reading Uncle Tom's Cabin. For how much I love to read, there's so many influential books I haven't read. Pain just a tad better than yesterday.
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