| 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. Favorite Blogs: |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 148.70 | 0.00 | 28.81 | 0.00 | 177.51 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| MTB Canyon Hollow to Rush
Quads still quite sore, but I was able to push it pretty hard on the bike.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| Easy eight partially with Traci.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| Math Run.
Devra joined me for this one. She is giddy because her son gets home from his mission today! I would be excited too!
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
| Corner Canyon Ghost Falls loop with Aaron. Such a nice, smooth trail! Quads are finally starting to feel somewhat functional again since trashing them on our mountain run last Friday. Its been an entire week of recovery though.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 11.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 11.00 |
| After being humbled last Friday on the mountain with Aaron, I'm feeling an urge to improve my trail running skills. Conveniently, I live just one mile from Corner Canyon.
This morning I went up Canyon Hollow and down Ann's trail accompanied by my 80s playlist on Spotify.
1,368 ft climbing. 8:21AP
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| Easy flat run with Aaron.
Also went hiking with the fam up at Brighton Ski Resort and had some other friends over for a swim party in the evening. Fun and exhausting day!
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.50 | 0.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| While Abe was in math class.
Ran over to Alta High School and did 12 X 400M with 200 M jog between each. 80-90 second pace.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 9.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.00 |
| Draper rollers A.K.A. Porter Rockwell trail.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| Ghost Falls. Went FAST down the last mile. Just for fun.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| MTB Canyon Hollow to Rush
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Layton Classic 10K (6.214 Miles) 00:37:46, Place overall: 3 | | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.30 | 0.00 | 6.21 | 0.00 | 11.51 |
| Racing myself into shape. That was an awesomely stacked local race! Offer a little bit of prize money and all the fast locals come out to play!
Beforehand I had no idea what time I could run so I tried not to overanalyze it and just raced. Ended up running most of the race 3rd place behind Cynthia Fowler and Marianne Blackburn, and finished that way too.
It was a serious lung burner on a challenging course. I need a nap. Guess I should probably train a little more before trying that again.
Just a couple of days ago, I found out the race director for Huntsville Half will give me an elite entry, so why not? Cynthia is doing Huntsville Half too, so I'm signed up for another pain train in just a few weeks! Cant say I'm looking forward to that one quite yet. I think I'll call Devra to whoop my butt into long-run shape.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 9.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.00 |
| Easy loop around Canal Trail and Porter Rockwell. Legs feel suprizingly recovered considering the race last Saturday.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 9.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.50 |
| Canyon Hollow to Ghost Falls with Aaron. Fall colors are setting in!!
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| Porter Rockwell, Vestry Road, Draper Temple, Canyon View Trail with Aaron. Thankfully the rain held out until after our run to dump down.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
| Thursday-my day for Math carpool. Every Thursday I have the pleasure of driving four 6th graders to their early morning advanced math class. Then I have 55 minutes to cram in a run from Indian Hills Middle school while the kids are in class.
Today I ran over to Alta Track and met Aaron and my sister-in-law, the famous Emily Dunn for a workout.
Strides, 400, 800, 1200, 800, 400, 200, 200 w/200M jog between each.
Pace on repeats was all sub-6:00. I could not seem to run my 200M any faster than 37 seconds. I used to be able to run a 28 second 200M back in the day. Maybe if I worked harder and more often, I could revive some of those fast twitch muscles again.
Cool down back to the middle school to give my son and his fellow advanced mathers a ride back to their home school.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
| Nice 'n Easy with Konda. Good conversation.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 13.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 13.00 |
| Went for a nice run with former BYU teammate Caisa Brown. I've been wanting to catch up with her ever since I moved back to Utah two months ago, so it was great to connect. There are SO many awesome, dedicated runners here in the Wasatch Front. The Utah running scene is alive and well!!
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 9.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.00 |
| Every Monday through Wednesday, I get the pleasure of starting off the first mile of my run with Abe cycling next to me until we get to the church where he is picked up for his advanced math group carpool. Then on Thursday, I get to drive the carpool.
Its good mother-son time. This morning he was wrapping his sweater sleeves down around his hands and making shiver sounds. Then he said to me, "#shouldhavewornpants." He just recently joined Instagram and as such, is not only typing, but also speaking in hashtags. #tweenboy
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Decided to get in a mountain bike ride in order to savor the season before the trails are muddy and cold.
Canyon Hollow to Rush with Aaron.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 3.50 | 0.00 | 9.50 |
| Warm up
3X2 min w/1 min recovery
2X5 min w/2 min recovery
3X2 min w/1 min recovery
Mostly held 5:50-6:00 min pace. Last set was 5:30 pace
Cool Down
Its official: I am falling in love with fast running again.
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| I could have done a recovery run this morning....OR....this:
I couldn't resist. I am SO grateful to live a mile from the beautiful Corner Canyon. My mountain bike was happy to get a little mileage there today.
11 miles up Clark's Trail, down Rush, up Ghost Falls, back down Rush.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| Eary six with Emily and Brittney
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Huntsville Half Marathon (13.1 Miles) 01:20:54, Place overall: 2 | | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.90 | 0.00 | 13.10 | 0.00 | 18.00 |
| Aaron was pacing a friend in the Bear 100, so I slept at my brother's home in Mt. Green the night before the race and arranged for two of my kids to be with my brother and his family for the day. The other two kids went with my sister and her family for the day. Thank goodness for family support!
Thanks to a short 20 minute drive, I arrived early in Huntsville. Found Cynthia Fowler and enjoyed catching up with her on the bus ride to the start. Tried to find Caisa, but we didn't connect until the starting line. Also connected with Sariah Long on the start line.
Unfortunately, we all had different goal paces so we weren't really going to be able to run as a pack for long. Cynthia was shooting for 5:55 pace and I knew I'd be broken by that pace. I wanted to see if I cold hold 6:05ish pace. Sariah and Caisa were shooting for more of a 6:10 pace.
As soon as the gun went off, we all settled into our paces and spread apart.
There was not much depth to the men's field, so I found myself running alone for pretty much the entire race. Felt like a long, lonely tempo run. I could see Cynthia up ahead knocking out her 5:55 pace and I just kept clipping away the best I could. I didn't feel particularly fit and strong, but it was a solid workout anyway.
The course was a nice gentle downhill with some rollers in the middle and pretty much flat the last four miles. Dropped about 800ft in elevation mostly in the first nine miles.
The race didn't start until 9:30 a.m., so it was pretty hot and dry from about 5 miles onward. I took water or gatorade at every aid station so as to not shrivel up like a raisin, but was still quite overheated the last few miles.
Splits were 5:49, 6:06, 5:54, 6:04, 6:08, 6:05, 6:15, 6:07, 6:13, 6:14, 6:20, 6:13 Final .1 in 5:55 pace
It was a very hard effort for me and I feel good about the day. Mostly it was empowering to push myself and run fast again!!
Cynthia was 1:19:30, I was 1:20:54, Sariah was 1:23:41, and Caisa had a rough second half but still finished strong in 1:31:30.
Did a 2 mile warm up and 3 mile cool down with Cynthia, so I had 18 miles for the day. The best part of the race was socializing with friends and enjoying the beautiful Fall scenery!
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| Taken with Aarons iPhone through his Dad's telescope.
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| Legs pretty tired. Opted for some mountain biking in corner canyon instead. Up Clarks, down Rush with Aaron. 10ish miles
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 9.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.00 |
| Easy recovery. Legs still pretty tired.
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| Bre and I shared a sick day.
Fevers. Laziness. Sleep.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 148.70 | 0.00 | 28.81 | 0.00 | 177.51 |
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