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Location:

Herriman,UT,USA

Member Since:

Jan 01, 2009

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Age Division Winner

Running Accomplishments:

St George Marathon: 3:23:54 (10/6/12)

Half IM: 5:44:03 (8/25/12 - course was long!)

25K trail - Buffalo Run (16.5) 2:34:50

Half Marathon: American Fork - 1:30:44  6/23/12

Spectrum 10K 43:42   3/17/2012

Best 5K: Spanish Fork 21:55 05/30/09

Short-Term Running Goals:

Okay, so for 2013 I am going to have FUN! Not that running isn't always fun, but I had a wonderful breakthrough year last year and I want to play this year :) AND get faster! So, my first goal I'm going to put out there is my yearly mileage goal.
It is 2,186 miles from my driveway to my sister (QP's) driveway! I want to spend this year on a virtual trek cross country running those miles. So, that is how far I will run in 2013...from my house to QPs. It will take all year and yes, this is measured on Hwys so it isn't really exactly how I COULD run it, but good enough. 43 miles/week...totally doable, and a fun goal to track how far I've traveled as I go along. Who knows...maybe I'll even run PAST her house :)

I will do more trail runs, Boston, Pacing duties, another Half IM and some other tris. I'm excited for this next year and look forward to having fun with all of you out on the roads, and trails! Maybe bag a few peaks this year too!!

Long-Term Running Goals:


Big Dreams: 5K in 20:2X; 10K in 39:XX; Half in 1:29:XX; Full in 3:15:XX; complete the Rim2Rim2Rim run and not die; Comrades; Iron(wo)Man.

Run for the rest of my life!

Personal:

4 children: twelve, eight, five and baby Fartlek - 2 1/2. Wonderful supportive husband that lets me drag him and the family all over for race after race!

Finished 13 marathons and LOVE running that distance! I'm definitely hooked to the marathon monster and hope to constantly improve my endurance, speed and stay injury free!

I've also found a love of trail running! I hope to keep improving on this front.

After being injured with a broken foot at the first of 2012 I found a tri group and started training with them and am now loving tris! The half IM was harder than I'd ever imagined...and am ready to do it again. I'll earn my bike butt and someday have enough time to train for a full IM.

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
BIKE MILES Lifetime Miles: 1168.40
LUCY MILES Lifetime Miles: 25.25
Adidas Lifetime Miles: 319.66
Orange II Lifetime Miles: 390.41
Boston Mizuno Lifetime Miles: 568.97
Fargo Nikes Lifetime Miles: 500.03
BEANS Lifetime Miles: 755.00
Orange Bostons Lifetime Miles: 527.59
Solomon Trail Lifetime Miles: 363.98
PI Tri Shoes Lifetime Miles: 4.00
Boston Mizuno 10s Lifetime Miles: 140.75
New Orange Lifetime Miles: 157.05
Total Distance
9.00

I did end up going swimming yesterday, and after about 10 minutes finally got into a good breathing routine. After about 40 minutes went to the hot tub and then the steam room to stretch .... oh, it was lovely!! If I didn't have to get wet I'd go to the steam room everyday.

This morning, I woke up early and met BBK's for extra miles. Did a nice easy warm up then about 4.5 miles (2-2.25) of tempo runs. Peggy said it should be comfortably hard, didn't understand until I was about a mile into the run, THEN I decided what I was running was comfortably hard! Finished up at a nice round 9, went home to grab 30 min more sleep then showered for my 'pretty day' at the gym. Did yoga then stretched and chatted for my last 30 min of nursery time. The best part is that after when I did my ritual weigh in at the gym I was down to my lowest weight!! Only 4.4 pounds left to get to my goal. That seems so much more reasonable than the 50 plus I started with. I'm feeling pretty good now, although another nap this afternoon will probably be mandatory if I'm to be amicable at all this evening.

I did have to put up my splits for this morning, because I'm so stinking proud of myself for getting ONE under 8! Here they are: 9:32 - 9:30 - 9:18 - 9:00 - 7:57 - 8:35 - 8:05 - 9:01 - 8:26 The overall AP was 8:49 but look at those pushes! A pat on the back for my 'tempo' today!

Night Sleep Time: 6.00Nap Time: 0.50Total Sleep Time: 6.50Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Kelli on Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 13:21:18

You did great today, and yeah on the weight! I was watching you in Yoga just being disgusted with how thin you are!!!

From Smooth on Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 17:00:08

Nice tempo run. Fun fun fun class. Awesome job on the weigh loss. I want your life, oh, did I say that yesterday?

From Nancy on Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 18:54:06

I enjoyed visiting with you this morning. I can't believe you go to the gym to exercise more after you have already run 9 miles. Have you really lost almost 50 pounds?

From erico on Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 21:31:45

Rachel,

Great to see you this morning. Thanks for keeping me company. When is your half-marathon? Seems like you are good and ready to do some great things.

From Cal on Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 18:20:56

BTW Rachel, huge congrats on all of your hard work and the inprovement in speed and especially all the loss of weight. (i'm about 50+ lbs lower than my high point a few years back - so i can relate)

From Rachel on Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 18:36:01

Smooth, thanks, but trust me if you really knew all the crap in my life you wouldn't want it! I'm just good at making it look cool, it is after all, all I've got.

Eric, its always good to have company on the run. Thats definately why I keep coming back to running group ... good people and good times! The 1/2 is on Valentines day. I'm flying to NC 2/12 to stay with and run with my sister then coming home midnight 2/16 so I'll probably miss both Thursday and Tuesday.

Cal, isn't it great to get that weight off! I was carrying my 28 lbs 2 yr old in a carrier the other day and I got so tired so fast! I don't know how I ran with all that extra weight last year, I just hope its gone for good.

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