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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

Fri, Sep 02, 2011

Total Distance

6.00

Well, the new era at the rec center has begun. Spin class - I didn't really like how the teacher taught. WAY too laid back, didn't push much at all and most of the women in the class barely broke a sweat. I hope I just caught him on an off day. Plus, he spends 80% of the class out of the saddle which isn't realistic. Sit your butt down and WORK. Sorry, I've been to too many tough classes.

Went out to the TM and did 6 miles just to shake it all down for tomorrow. First 3 miles @ 8:57, next @ 8:41. Mile 5 was 8:34, last year's MP, so I decided to make mile 6 this year's MP @ 8:06. AP for the full 6= 8:44

When I got home the real fun started. Friday is our garbage day and it always just bites me that we have to fill our trash with grass on Saturday and have it sit around all week! So, when I realized the garbage hadn't come yet I decided to try and get at least the front mowed before they came.

Well, I got that done and thought...hmmm, maybe I can get some of the back done before they come. I picked up the dog poo (thank you Lucy) and went to work. Our grass is growing crazy lately and so you have to empty the catcher every couple minutes!

As I trudged the catcher back and forth out to the street there was no sign of the garbage man, then about 1/3 of the way through the back I hear him- CRAP! He's headed right down the street, so I start running back and forth. One more load...one more load.

He turns and goes down the other street before doing our dead end and circle. Whew! A couple more minutes. I can still hear him though...so I'm still running, back and forth. Finally, it starts to get louder again - Crap! I'm almost done.

I have only about 1/3 of the lawn in the back left! I run out and back, pull the mower - nothin'. Dang it! Since I was just going to do the front I didn't fill up the gas and it's out now. AAAHHHH! I book it to the shed, grab the gas can book it back and do a quick 10 second fill just to get me through the last of the grass. I'm off again! Still sprinting back and forth out to the street and wishing the lawn mower would go faster.

Then I see the truck heading down the dead end (this means only 8ish cans before he gets to my circle), I throw the catcher on for one last fill and run it out to the street just as he is backing up out of the dead end to head toward our circle! I was SO happy. I beat that garbage man good, and he didn't even know it! :) I did have one load of grass left to mow, but only one. I got all the grass and the dog poo out of the garbage fast! I really feel so accomplished, small victories make my day :)

Inspire Yellow Racers Miles: 6.00

Night Sleep Time: 0.00	Nap Time: 0.00	Total Sleep Time: 0.00	Weight: 0.00

Comments

From Lily on Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 17:08:31 from 67.199.178.210

LOL! Small victories for sure. And maybe eve a little speed work in disquise.

From RAD on Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 17:25:43 from 76.27.16.189

Lily, I was thinking I should add a good 1/2 mile on to my mileage for it :) If anyone had it all on video, you might die of laughter.

From Kelli on Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 18:51:49 from 71.219.67.82

It was Bill, right? He has a tendency to be a bit more laid back. His wife on the other hand....Not sure why he had you UP so much, that is not normal for him. Maybe he was tired.

Great job on the lawn, victory there for sure. Everyone on our street mows their lawn on Thursday night so the grass goes out. It looks a bit like the scene in She's Having Baby, we just need the music. Scott even wears the nice plaid shorts.

From Chad on Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 19:27:18 from 71.199.13.143

It sounds like you should teach the class. And good job on the speed work / cross training.

From RAD on Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 21:34:34 from 76.27.16.189

Kelli, yeah it was Bill. I was just surprised with a lot of things he did, VERY different from anything I'm used to. I guess I'm used to hard A@@ spin teachers and he was like out for a Sunday drive. I'm also used to not getting out of the saddle for the first 25-30 minutes and that you NEVER get out with no resistance (bad for your knees from what I understand) and he had you on the warm up out of the saddle and then always doing fast/no resistance sprints and hoovers out of the saddle. Just a lot different. He did say he taught the 5AM class - so that may have been it. He better step it up though, I'll be there on Fridays a lot :) I remembered you saying that before about Thursdays, I thought a couple times about it as I was mowing the front. No one was out mowing with me though. By the time I got to the back I was just in GO mode!

Chad, I think I would like teaching spin, but I don't know if anyone else besides me would like my workouts!

From DaleG on Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 22:03:32 from 152.216.11.5

Way to beat the garbage man!!! I've done that several times this summer. In the back of my pickup truck I had it loaded with old carpet and padding. Every Monday morning I would take the garbage across the street and as soon as he would empty it, I'd bring it back and try to fill it up as much as possible before He got to my house. Worked pretty good and it saved me a trip to the dump. Bonus.

From RAD on Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 22:09:17 from 76.27.16.189

Dale, That is awesome! I think I'd probably do that too :) But, I do love a good ol' trip to the aviary, ummm...I mean dump. My dad used to make it an outing for us when he'd go! Good times :)

From bye-wing on Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 22:11:12 from 124.121.118.185

Want to come mow my lawn? I can even ask the trash man to come over to make it more fun. :)

Good luck with your run tomorrow.

From DaleG on Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 22:18:46 from 152.216.11.5

Rachel...Aviary. Good one. LOL. My dad used to make it an outing for us, too. Well, mostly just me. it was always fun. I would try and throw things as far as I could. Good times. The dump up here is actually indoors. it's quite strange driving into a building and dumping stuff. But they seem to have it all worked out. They have a bunch of guys working in there, sorting things into different piles.

From Kelli on Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 22:55:34 from 71.219.67.82

Hmmm....that is actually very out of character for Bill. His warm-up is usually very hard, then he eases up a bit. He must have been having an off day. Fridays may still be good, sometimes his wife shows up! You never know which of them you will get.

Heidi will kick your butt! The Tuesday girl was good, too, but she can no longer teach that class because she has to get her kids to school. Not sure who took her spot since I could not go this week.

I would come to your spin class!

From Nancy on Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 16:10:47 from 76.23.21.118

Nice run, spin class and extra running with the grass catcher.

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