| 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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| Night Sleep Time: 28.50 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 28.50 | Weight: 144.17 | |
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| pain 0-1 Had guests over for dinner, pork with a plum sauce and sweet potatoes, rice, salad, and oreo chocolate trifle (last hurrah, start diet tracking tomorrow).
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| Walked 1.7 miles in 32 minutes. Starting to track my eating with mypyramidtracker.gov, where I will input my eating and exercise for a couple of weeks to help me get back on track and lose weight. Kind of hard to lose weight just walking like this, but hopefully I'll be able to ramp up my exercise consistently. I plan on buying a digital scale today. |
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Pain notched up, 0-2.
2 miles walking with Marion in 39:47. Marion helped keep the pace easy by stopping every once in a while to demonstrate a yoga pose :) She's trying to convince me I need to do yoga, but it is so dang time consuming. I'm sure I can do a 30 minute stretching routine which will give me all that I need and give me the time to train that I need. I can feel a difference between my two sides but no pain. I did good with my eating yesterday, and I intend to keep it up. Part of of losing weight is reteaching your brain that it is ok to be hungry at times during the day, and exercise helps. I have a digital scale and today's weight is my first morning weigh in.
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.75 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.75 | Weight: 144.80 |
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Yesterday some soreness in SI, slight, but more pronounced than the prior week. It wasn't concerning in itself, if I always had this niggling at this level I would be peachy, but I am concerned that I might be affected by the minimal exercise I've started. I called the rheum office to see how the preauth for enbrel went, and they hadn't started it, but they submitted it to my insurance yesterday. Since my soreness was quite low still (1-2 max yesterday) and my exercise is reasonable, I will keep going with it. One of the things to work out over the next month or two is whether I need enbrel, and I must train, or have a flare up in trying to train, to find that out. Anyway, today walked 1.7 in 30:05. Had to remind myself to take the pace easy. 17:41 pace today. I'll start fast walking next week. Light abs - easing into core training again - planks, bridge, and superman light stretching 30 min weeding
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| Night Sleep Time: 7.75 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 7.75 | Weight: 144.00 |
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| 2.35 miles walked in 40:05. 17:02 pace, wanting to walk faster. Walk felt a little better on SI joint. Some pain at same place in the road as yesterday, but for less long, its like a burning after you get an immunization, not the pain during or right after the shot but the residual burning. Since it's at the same place in the road, but not at the same place in my walk, it may have to do with slant in road, I'll have to pay attention to this. I could not fall asleep last night! I was so hungry, it's like I could feel my body consuming itself. I've been eating 1700-1900 cal/day this week, and its tough relearning that I will be hungry at times. I am about to be really full of oatmeal in a few minutes, though.
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.50 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.50 | Weight: 143.20 |
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| Woke up an hour late, no time to blog this morning. Squeezed in 1.65 walk, then off to work. My hair is fire engine sassy red (Marion says there are pictures on her blog, I'm going to check it out now). Thank you Marion for being my hair styling/dying/washing/conditioning specialist!
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| Night Sleep Time: 7.50 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 7.50 | Weight: 143.80 |
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| 3 miles walking in 48:11, 16:04 ave pace. Then weeded for 30 min, then some light stretching. I can walk fast next week, meaning I can cock my arms up a bit and go in the 15's. Cool! I have all the pieces to my elliptical out in the basement on the floor, now I need to inventory and assemble the beast. I think its the nordictrack elite 1300. I was suprised it doesn't get plugged in but runs on gerbal power, and I am the gerbal. Ate out a Chili's last night. They have some good guiltless selections: bbq chick sandwich, veggies and a skewer of six shrimp (which I didn't know, but they cost $6something, almost as much as my sandwich). When we got home from our date, I spent some time calculating out the PF Change menu (their nutritional info is online, but most dishes are claimed to have 3 servings, I now know that 258x3=774 and 273x2.5=682.5). So there's quite a few dishes that Paul and I can share, and if we also get hot & sour soup and/or spring rolls, that would be enough food and within caloric guidelines. I sure like food. Onto other topics, can anyone name this band? I’ve been living out of sanity
I’ve been splitting hairs and blurring lines
I am a house that is divided
In my heart and in my mind
I use one hand to pull closer
The other to push you away
If I had two hands doing the same thing
Lifted high, lifted high
I have a broken disposition
I’m a liar who thirsts for the truth
And while I ache for faith to hold me
I need to feel the scars and see the proof
And if we just keep digging we can reach the foundation
Of our souls
And if we just keep cutting all the chains from our hearts
We’ll lose control
And it feels like giving in
It feels like starting over
It feels like waking up, and you know it’s coming
It feels like a brand new day
Open your eyes |
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