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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
6.50

Another Lovely windy run. I slept in - par for the course during taper week - and so I had to run when baby went to pre-school. I ran him there and half way I noticed that the tire on the stroller was flat. Crap. So, I ditched the stroller at the pre-school and took the long way home. At least it saved me from pushing the empty stroller home :)

Just had a nice run going with the flow. Legs always feel good on taper week. I like it! Throat was dry from running in the wind and my lovely congestion that has taken over, but other than that it was a wonderful cool afternoon run...in the wind.

AP: 8:14 splits: 8:15, 9:04, 8:24, 7:10 (which one was uphill into the wind?!?)

Tonight was Iron Dean night at Chick-fil-a and I found out that rungr8 was doing a 3 mile run from the store to Chick-fil-a, so I figured why not?!? I picked up Lauren from swim at 6:00 with Kristy and we headed down to rungr8. Since dad was late I had to take baby with me in the jogger (I changed the tube in the wheel earlier), but I was running with Kristy and Lauren so it is almost a good thing for me to have a little handicap, especially on taper week :)

It was a nice little run to chick-fil-a (2.5ish) then we got to give our best wishes to Dean and I also got to talk to Kris a little bit too, which was really nice. We ate some chicken then rode the RunGr8 bus back to the store and headed home. It really was a great evening and I was glad I'd made/found the time to go. I had to ditch pack meeting, but luckily dad picked up my slack for me.

I'm getting excited/nervous about SGM, but figure I'll take what it'll give me. I just want a good race. Nice and relaxed racing. Nothing uptight, crazy or nervous. Just relax, sit back and enjoy. When I did that last year I hit a PR - lets hope the same magic happens again!

Fargo Nikes Miles: 6.50
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Smooth on Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 04:40:40 from 121.44.5.17

Good luck on Sat. will be thinking of you!

From Bec on Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 09:05:34 from 70.115.197.197

The magic WILL happen this weekend, so excited for you!

I wish I could see the crazy lady pushing an empty jogging stroller... hee hee.

Miss you. Just having some really boring runs here.

From The Quiet Pirate on Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 19:27:46 from 71.53.111.105

Hope your congestion was gone and you had a great run in St George.

From Russ on Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 19:14:55 from 70.208.5.103

Congrats on a huge PR! And you won the "Rachel" or "Rachelle" division BTW (seeing as I can't remember your last name until I see Herriman). Nicely done.

From Toby on Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 18:27:41 from 74.81.235.5

Race report...it's been a week sister!!!!! :)

From Scott Wesemann on Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 10:27:15 from 66.232.64.4

SLACKER!!!

From Smooth on Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 06:50:31 from 101.119.17.92

Hi Rach! You ok? Miss ya! Thanks for the letters you and kids sent me! It meant the world to me! Love you! :-)

From Scott Wesemann on Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 14:58:23 from 66.232.64.4

I mean blog SLACKER BTW. :)

From RAD on Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 14:32:56 from 76.27.82.202

okay, okay...I'm sitting down to do it! I'm catching up now :)

From Scott Wesemann on Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 14:35:04 from 66.232.64.4

Good. Hope you're doing well.

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