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Location:

Draper,UT,

Member Since:

Jun 11, 2009

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

5K- 16:37

6K CC - 19:55 

4 miles- 22:10 

10K- 34:38

15K- 49:57 

Half Marathon- 1:12:03

20K - 1:08:38 

Marathon- 2:35:49

Short-Term Running Goals:

Stay fit and have fun doing some local races.

Get my youth cross country team, www.racecats.org off the ground.

Long-Term Running Goals:

Feel energized. Stay healthy and balanced

Personal:

Four awesome kids ages 4, 8, 10, and 12 years old. Love to run, play, and write. Married to entrepreneurial Aaron.

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Book Dissolved Lifetime Miles: 6539.00
Altra Intuition Lifetime Miles: 35.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.503.500.000.0010.00

My last "work out" before New Haven.  Did it on my own when Aaron arrived home from HIS FINAL SERVICE DAY!!!!  HALLELEUJA!!   Not that giving service isn't great or anything, but 100 hours within a 3 month block was pretty straining on his time.   And now hes FINISHED!!  Yeah! Maybe I should bake him a cake or something.

Anyway...

20 minute warm up, stretching, strides

4X5 minutes at marathon pace (5:56, 6:00, 5:43, 5:50).  Probably a little faster than marathon pace, but my legs felt great.

20 minute cool down

Spent the rest of the afternoon taking Bre to the dentist to hold her hand as she got to breathe through a cool darth vadar-like mask, get sleepy juice squirted on her tooth with a high tech squirt gun, clean up the sugar bugs with a flashlight, and then be rewarded with a shiny princess crown in her mouth.  Now doesn't that sound a lot more fun than going to the Dentist to be gassed with nitrous oxide, poked with two local anaesthetic shots, then having the entire pulp of your tooth dug out with a sharp, light-guided drill and covered up with a small cap of tin?  Its all about how you present it.  She behaved perfectly and felt like a princess as we left.   $425 later and her toothache is gone.

Comments
From seeaprilrun on Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 22:03:29 from 68.103.248.145

Well said! Nice workout--can't wait to hear your race report! I think you will stack up well with the elite ladies!

From Scott Ensign on Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 22:23:55 from 67.41.173.210

the good news is those are all baby teeth too, right?

If Aaron goes through "sweep withdrawal" he can always come here and get a fix in my garage or shed!

From Aaron Kennard on Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 22:36:05 from 24.8.144.22

Fortunately withdrawals are very rare with sweeping Scott, only about 1 in 335 experience them, so I think I'll be ok. Thankfully they didn't have me cleaning toilets because I think the numbers there are closer to 1 in 247 experiencing withdrawal symptoms.

From Scott Ensign on Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 22:41:50 from 67.41.173.210

your starting to sound like Sasha with the numbers- maybe he had the statistics :-)

100 hours... you should count those as cross training miles on the blog to get something tangible out of them. in addition to the warm fuzzy feelings you have from just doing service of course!

From Aaron Kennard on Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 22:46:50 from 24.8.144.22

I assure you there were Zero fuzzy and/or warm feelings gleaned from any moment of my service hours!

From Bonnie on Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 18:38:48 from 128.196.228.134

that was such an awesome story Nan, will you come with me for my next dental visit?

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