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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
3.500.000.000.003.50

Slept in 'till 9:30 a.m. (7:30 a.m. M.S.T.).  My race will be over half-way finished by that time tomorrow.  So again, no E.S.T. adjustment but the 9.5 hours of sleep felt like heaven.

Aaron and actually ran TOGETHER today for the fifth time this year!.  As we went downstairs to leave for our run we bumped into the Elite Athlete coordinator, Clay and his assistant, Steve.  Clay walked us over to the race finish and gave us some race day info and directions.  Just a couple of blocks from our hotel is the street that is the final few miles of the race and takes you all the way up to the finish line by the baseball stadium.  The name of the street?  A State that holds a special place in my heart as my homeland and stomping grounds of younger years....Eutaw.  Spelled just how it ought to be spelled.  :)  

While walking down the quiet finishing stretch void of any spectators cheering and flailing their arms over the finish line railings my heart started pumping and I got a smile on my face as I envisioned the crowds and excitement in store for tomorrow. 

Clay went into the baseball stadium for the Expo and we did a short, easy run with 4X1 minutes at marthon pace.  Aaron kept commenting on how great his lungs felt and how easy 6 minute pace was.  Gotta love sea-level baby!!

After our run we went to the elite athlete suite in our Hotel to get my race bib and say hi to Carolyn (good friends of the De Reuck's, she and her husband, Steve are Clay's friendly, helpful assistants).  Carolyn is probably in her mid-50s and has personally run over 100 marathons!!

For lunch we walked over to the harbor and ate yummy sandwiches, took a couple of pics, and rented a bike so Aaron can pedal around on the course tomorrow and be able to take pics at multiple points along the course.  As we were walking back to the hotel we bumped into two very fit, tiny ladies with matching Nike jackets (very likely my top competition for tomorrow). The conversation went something like this...

Aaron: "Hello, are you running the marathon?" Yes.

"Where are you from?" Krygyzstan.  Russia.

"Have you run this race before?"  Blank stare.  Crinkled eyebrows.  Some rambling about going to Europe.

"Well, good luck!"  Good luck!

The temperature looks great for racing tomorrow morning.  The start will be in the high 40s and it will get up to the mid 50s by the finish (perfect).  The only thing that may affect any or all of the 2,000 marathoners and 18,000 runners in other race distances is the likelyhood of wind.  Its been windy all day today and the forecast indicates steady winds all day tomorrow as well.  The good thing is that there are sections of the race that go through the city with high rise buildings breaking up the breeze but it may get ugly out there on the harbor.  Without knowing what kind of race pack is going to form and whether or not it will be within my pacing plan to run with a group of women, I'm hoping to at least find an unsuspecting male to tuck in behind and pray that he showered beforehand.

Ready or not, here I come!

Comments
From Burt on Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 17:21:06 from 206.19.214.144

Or that he didn't eat a burrito beforehand.

From Jon on Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 18:02:49 from 174.52.120.52

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity"

Good luck!

From Scott Ensign on Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 21:36:06 from 65.100.210.69

good luck Nan, will be anxiously watching for results! hope you can get some good sleep tonight. nice Aaron is there and has a bike, he is the ultimate support crew and cheering section. and a pretty good floor sweeper too...

From Rob on Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 12:54:25 from 72.254.59.228

Hey, that was cool. The Baltimore Marathon was the #2 Google search request this morning so I clicked on it and saw your name in number 3. Congrats, that is an awesome time. 1 and 2 look like Russian names to me, so you must have been right about your competition. Good job one more time, can't wait to read your report.

From Rob on Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 12:57:12 from 72.254.59.228

Oh, here is the link. http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/health/fitness/2010/10/under_armour_baltimore_maratho.html

From RAD on Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 15:09:43 from 67.172.229.125

CONGRATS Nan! I can't wait to hear all the details - simply amazing! I hope the race felt as good as your time reflects! WOW!!

From Paul on Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 16:59:01 from 174.27.187.235

Congrats, can't wait to hear details!

From Sasha Pachev on Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 17:17:15 from 192.168.1.1

Nan - congratulations on a solid standard A and developing a fist to shake at the Olympic spot contenders! You have become the first blogger to qualify for Women's Trials. This actually is the fastest time I am aware of by an LDS woman on a non-aided course, and a repeat of the fastest on any course, the other performance being that of Maggie Chan-Roper in the Salt Lake Marathon 2004 with the exact same time of 2:35:49.

From catherine on Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 19:05:15 from 69.169.157.242

Wow Nan...that's amazingly fantastic. I'm so excited for you!

From Little Bad Legs on Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 21:28:34 from 67.170.153.203

I can only imagine how excited you are right now. Congratulations!

From Nan on Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 22:09:18 from 69.18.151.138

Thanks, you guys! It was super fun and rewarding in many ways.

Sasha-funny that Maggie and I have the exact same PR, what are the chances of that?! Thanks for the encouagement!

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