| Location: Salt Lake City,Ut, Member Since: Jun 11, 2012 Gender: Female Goal Type: Other Running Accomplishments: Races and Progress
2006 Salt Lake Marathon-4:10:53
2007 Top of Utah Marathon-3:52:17
2009 Ogden Marathon-3:43:46
2012 Utah Valley Marathon-3:21:59 *PR*
2012 Provo Half-1:28:54 *PR* Short-Term Running Goals: Working my way to get faster.....
10K: 41:00 or better
Half Marathon: 1:27 or better
Marathon: 3:15 or better Long-Term Running Goals: Run into old age. Personal: Married with 2 lively boys. I love running and I love getting faster. Just trying to figure out how to balance life between being a mother, wife, part time nurse, and runner. :)
When I was in 6th grade I filled out a Getting to Know You sheet. Under nicknames I wrote, "My brothers call me Boo Legs, I think its because I run fast." (It really came from the movie, Strange Brew) And its been my family nickname ever since. Favorite Blogs: |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 125.30 | 35.40 | 160.70 |
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| Brooks Pureflow Miles: 24.00 | Brooks Pureflow 2 Miles: 20.50 | Brooks Pureflow 2 X2 Miles: 71.20 | Red Saucony Fastwitch Miles: 10.00 | Superfeet Orthotics 2 Miles: 61.50 | Mizuno Wave Rider 17 Miles: 9.00 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
| Easy treadmill miles. Weight lifting. I can do three unassisted pull ups. Boo yeah. I'm so strong. :)
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| Brooks Pureflow Miles: 4.00 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| Out and back along the Porter Rockwell Trail.
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| Brooks Pureflow 2 Miles: 10.00 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 19.50 | 0.00 | 19.50 |
| Blasted 0.5 miles! We were already late to a soccer game and I didn't have it in me to make another loop. I drove up to Wasatch Blvd to do this run. I guess I didn't realize how hilly it is. Running up hills in the early dawn=a tumble. I totally ate it. No serious harm done. This wasn't my favorite run. But....now that I've got another (well, almost) 20 miler under me, I think I'm going to do SoJo in two weeks. Lets hope the "sickness of death" stays away this time.
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| Brooks Pureflow 2 X2 Miles: 19.50 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| I love the weather this time of year.
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| Brooks Pureflow Miles: 8.00 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 2.80 | 3.20 | 6.00 |
| I won't even try to explain this workout but I gave up.I don't know what my problem was but I couldn't get out of my own head. Stupid. |
| Red Saucony Fastwitch Miles: 6.00 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| Great weather! |
| Superfeet Orthotics 2 Miles: 8.00 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 2.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 |
| Leg day and plyos. |
| Brooks Pureflow Miles: 2.00 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 3.00 | 10.50 |
| 3 tempo miles (7:30 pace) in the middle of my last long run before SoJo.
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| Superfeet Orthotics 2 Miles: 10.50 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 |
| Early morning miles with the dog. My new wave rider 17s came in the mail today. Trying to decide between those and the newest pureflows for the marathon on Saturday...decisions are the worst. :) |
| Brooks Pureflow 2 Miles: 3.00 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.00 | 3.00 | 6.00 |
| 1 mile warm up 3x1 mile repeats with 1/2 mile recovery between. Repeats were 6:47, 6:42, 6:40. 1 mile cool down.
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| Mizuno Wave Rider 17 Miles: 6.00 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| My husband and I got massages last night and the lady said I have lots of "congestion" in the plantar fascia of my feet. |
| Superfeet Orthotics 2 Miles: 5.00 |
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SoJo Marathon (26.2 Miles) 03:25:08, Place overall: 5, Place in age division: 2 | | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 26.20 | 26.20 |
| Hard. Left it all out there. Didn't give up when I really wanted to bail. More later.
When Huntsville didn't work out due to the "great gamboo" that I got the day before, I knew that trying to get a 3:15 on this course was next to impossible. So I readjusted my goal to PR (under 3:21:5X). I felt like the week before I did really well at hydrating, resting, and fueling. I was optimistic because the weather was going to be great (minimal wind! Woohoo!) and overall, I felt that I was in shape. Plus I had three extra weeks of training I didn't anticipate so I was so ready to just do this thing.
Here are the splits:
7:56, 7:19, 7:45, 7:53, 8:14, 9:10, 7:51, 7:16, 7:15, 7:15, 7:35, 7:36, 7:34, 7:47, 7:41, 7:16, 8:14, 7:38, 7:48, 8:15, 7:52, 7:40, 7:48, 8:09, 8:09, 8:25, and I don't know what the last 0.2 was because I forgot to turn my garmin off.
During the early miles, I felt good but I did feel like I was breathing pretty heavy. It didn't feel hard but I think my nerves were just working themselves out. Me and skinny blond girl (who ended up coming in shortly after I did) kept leap frogging. After the hills on miles 4-6, I knew this wasn't going to come easy. I turned on my music and tried to drown out my mind. By about mile eight, I left all the people I was running by. It was a lonely race. There were a few people I would pass here and there.
At about mile 15 I started picking off half marathoners to catch up to "Pass red shirt guy. Just get to him." "Okay now pass tutu lady, you can do that." At one point I was saying things to myself like, "Just disconnect your brain from your legs. Your legs can run all day. ALL. DAY. at this pace. Easy." Funny the things we come up with.
Mile 17 was demoralizing. My legs were ready to stop. I was wanting it to be over and then came another hill by the Oquirrh Mountain Temple. My sister and brother in law live in the neighborhoods right by there and I remember thinking, "I could just run to the Kings house, that'd only take like 2 minutes, that'd be okay right?" Thank goodness for the downhill after the temple, I used it and tried hard not to fight against the downhill. The hardest part of this course in my opinion are the last two miles along the Jordan River Parkway. The wind was blowing slightly against you (very slightly, but at this point, I felt every bit of resistance) and it is ever so slightly uphill. Longest two miles ever. My calves were cramping and balling up. I finally heard and saw the finish line, saw the husband and boys, and went as fast as my bambi legs would take me to the finish.
Although I got my PR at Utah Valley in 2012, I really felt like I did a better job at keeping it together in this race. I totally broke down and gave up mentally at my last marathon and ended up walking a mile before I pulled it together. I am proud to say I didn't quit when I really wanted to quit. When negative thoughts came, I immediately pushed them out. Sometimes this works and sometimes it doesn't. Today, it did. I am proud of the race I ran. It wasn't a PR but I did give it everything I had. My gait shows it. Going down stairs proves that every bit of my quads was left out on that course. I'll take it. And I won't be doing laundry downstairs for a few days.
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| Brooks Pureflow 2 X2 Miles: 26.20 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
| Crazy case of plantar fascitis. Self diagnosed. Massaged my calves all day and rolled my foot on a golf ball every chance I could. |
| Brooks Pureflow Miles: 4.00 | Superfeet Orthotics 2 Miles: 4.00 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| Miles before work. Foot feels a little better. Not as angry. Calf stretching like a boss. |
| Brooks Pureflow Miles: 6.00 | Superfeet Orthotics 2 Miles: 6.00 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| Windy! I totally didnt mind. Just glad it wasnt last Saturday. That would've been just my luck. |
| Superfeet Orthotics 2 Miles: 10.00 | Brooks Pureflow 2 X2 Miles: 10.00 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| Felt good. |
| Brooks Pureflow 2 Miles: 7.50 | Brooks Pureflow 2 X2 Miles: 7.50 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 |
| Treadmill miles and a weight lifting class. |
| Mizuno Wave Rider 17 Miles: 3.00 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
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| Superfeet Orthotics 2 Miles: 8.00 | Brooks Pureflow 2 X2 Miles: 8.00 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
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| Red Saucony Fastwitch Miles: 4.00 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
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| Superfeet Orthotics 2 Miles: 10.00 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 125.30 | 35.40 | 160.70 |
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| Brooks Pureflow Miles: 24.00 | Brooks Pureflow 2 Miles: 20.50 | Brooks Pureflow 2 X2 Miles: 71.20 | Red Saucony Fastwitch Miles: 10.00 | Superfeet Orthotics 2 Miles: 61.50 | Mizuno Wave Rider 17 Miles: 9.00 |
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