| 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 | | 57.44 | 0.00 | 6.00 | 0.50 | 28.12 | 35.82 | 0.00 | 63.94 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 42.50 | Nap Time: 2.25 | Total Sleep Time: 44.75 | Weight: 0.00 | |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 10.15 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.15 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.15 |
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Just me and my music and lots of sprinkles. It sprinkled the first 4 or so miles, strengthened to a rain in the middle, then lightened back up toward the end. I got slowed in miles 6 and 7 because I got on a dirt road accidentally, which was turned mushy from the rain. Thus I had mud up and down my calves. I forgot to stretch after warming up, thus when I stretched at the end I was pretty tight. I can feel my groin lightly and felt some tightness in my right quad toward the end of the run. Ave pace 7:51 124 weight |
| Night Sleep Time: 7.75 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 7.75 | 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 | | 9.75 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.50 | 0.00 | 10.25 | 0.00 | 10.25 |
| Ran on my own again. Ran into Payson and decided I felt good enough to do some strides. I did 4 and then felt like that was enough. Just reminding my legs what fast feels like. I kept the pace quicker than my tax season shuffle, but it still felt comfortable. I'm going in again to get my groin worked on. It felt sore for about .5 mile in the first mile, but then the soreness subsided. As I sit at my computer I can feel it, though it is very mild. The sun came up over the mountains and I ran straight into it for the last three miles of my run. It was nice to have the sun, but I'd rather have it to my side than in my face like that. I saw Clay at the very end. HALLLOOO Clay! Ave pace 7:41
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| Night Sleep Time: 7.50 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 7.50 | 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 | | 11.95 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 11.95 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 11.95 |
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I ran up and down Payson Canyon with MacK, 5.5 up then down, then we added 1 mile at the end. Last summer I would tempo up then run down easy, but this was just an easy up and down, to reacquaint myself with the canyon and so I will be able to tempo it better when I do. I was able to do this in about 45 minutes up last year (my stopping point is really 5.4 miles), and today it was an easy 49:36. That should be pretty easy to beat next time up. My first tempo should be 5 minutes faster. That will stink. Its a gradual uphill for 4 miles then gets steep and nasty the last 1.4. The good news is that I didn't need a pit stop. I think I'll start to note when I DON'T go potty--it will save on typing. When I took my running socks off at home I thought I detected a sock tan line and I asked Paul it he could see one, he stared at my feet for a minute, and I was like, "What? There's not?" And he said, "There's lily white, and then there's very lily white." Oh well. Ave pace - something slow - ok it was 8:29 Weight 124
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.75 | Nap Time: 0.75 | Total Sleep Time: 7.50 | 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 | | 9.15 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.15 | 0.00 | 9.15 |
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Ran with Josse in SF. Her garmin was dead so I'll post splits for her info. We started off super easy then broke into a more fast pace but still easy. 8:39, 8:12, 8:03, 8:01,8:14, 7:37, 7:39, 7:32, 7:38 I'm not sore any more, so that bodes well for my first speed workout after the marathon, Saturday. There were lots of people out. When we saw Steve King and Chad (I think that's his name) Josse joked that we should speed up so of course I did :) Little snot (that's me!) on the road! Ave pace 7:58 |
| Night Sleep Time: 6.50 | Nap Time: 1.00 | Total Sleep Time: 7.50 | 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 | | 6.02 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.02 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.02 |
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Woke up in the middle of the night with pretty tight calves. They felt less tight when woke up for good. Slept in, then ran pretty little road loop. Stretched diligently after mile1 and at the end. Ave pace 7:47 |
| Night Sleep Time: 7.50 | Nap Time: 0.50 | Total Sleep Time: 8.00 | 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 | | 10.42 | 0.00 | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 16.42 | 0.00 | 16.42 |
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I have been looking forward to this run all week! First speed workout after marathon! Met Josse and Kent at the mouth of Provo Canyon, then we drove up about 4 miles to Vivian Park. There we met Steve from Heber and ran up that South Fork Canyon for 4 miles, then back down 1 mile to the start of the 10 mile race we'll be doing in two weeks. My goal was to do a six mile tempo in 6:00-6:15 pace. I also wanted to check out the course and better set my expectations for the race. I am also going to be quicker tempos through July to try to quicken my marathon pace by October. It turns out this course is 3 miles of good downhill, then you hit the Provo River trail, and the trail is downhill but doesn't feel like it. Mile 1 - 6:07, Steve and I set our pace, Kent and Josse are behind us taking it easier (ok so Steve was taking it easy too, it's just me who's going to kill herself today)
Mile 2 - 5:58 Mile 3 - 5:56 already starting to work in this mile to keep pace Mile 4 - 6:10, much flatter, Steve and I don't see the turnoff for the trail at the beginning of this mile at Vivian Park, but find it pretty quick Mile 5 - 6:22 (tempted to lie on this split :) , but it is what it is) a struggle the whole mile, wanting to quit, tons of walking pedestrians we get to weave through. This mile shows I am not fully recovered from the marathon.
Mile 6 - 5:58, see the light at the end of the tunnel and am able to pull out another sub 6, 36:33 for 6 miles or 6:06 ave
We stop the tempo and I cry a little. That's when I know I gave what I got. It felt pretty similar to a 10K pace, though I think I could have gone a little faster in a race scenario. So though I would love to break 1:00 in the 10 mile race coming up, this workout says I'm not ready to :( I am guessing I am closer to 1:02. The race seems like it will be hard, like a bait and switch, first three miles fast downhill then more rolling/downhill but much less grade. We ran the rest of the run easy, though we did clock a 7:15 in one of the remaining miles. A special thanks to Josse for organizing the run and driving us up, and to Kent for driving us back to Josse's car. It was nice to get to know Steve C.
Ave pace 7:41 Jamba juice (orange/strawberry/banana with protein) and pumpkin chocolate chip bread from Great Harvest on the way home :) Ice bath at home. Good times! |
| Night Sleep Time: 6.50 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.50 | 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 | | 57.44 | 0.00 | 6.00 | 0.50 | 28.12 | 35.82 | 0.00 | 63.94 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 42.50 | Nap Time: 2.25 | Total Sleep Time: 44.75 | Weight: 0.00 | |
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