| 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. Favorite Blogs: |
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It's Stake 5K time again! So, for this morning's workout I decided to see how my legs would do at the race in a couple weeks - and get used to the course the 'normal' uphill way and not the way I like to run it from my house. Did one warm-up mile to the church (8:31), then stretched then started out. The first 2 miles are the worst of the uphill, but kept the splits descent (7:57, 8:19) then the third mile is mostly down (7:35) with my .08 run to the finish -it's just a little short- I finished in just over 24 minutes. Not too bad for the uphills you have to kick through. Then I took a nice leisurely jog home...I was tired! (9:32) That killed my AP for the run and I finished with an 8:24 for the five miles. This was a fun 'tempo' run, and it's fun to have a close course to gauge speed on over time. I'd like to hit 23 minutes on race day...we'll see what my legs have to offer then. Now I'm off to the gym to do step class and ab's class...I was thinking I'd run another 5K on Milley, but I may just do the ab's class instead. Still undecided, I'll update later. *Went to do ab's, I didn't get a chance to eat much before step so I was a little light headed. Decided it would be better to do ab's than kill myself for another 3 when I have a full day with kids and volleyball tonight!*
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| | Nice slow miles with the BBK's this morning...I LOVE that they know how to recovery properly! I definitely needed these slow miles this morning, I think my lead legs were from volleyball last night. Either way, it was nice to just get out! AP: 9:08, splits: 9:24, 9:02, 8:54, 9:12, 9:18, 8:57 Then went to the gym for resistance/weights. Mostly arms, so I'm afraid of Thursday. Then I did the recumbent bike for 25 minutes - 6.5 miles - at an even resistance. | |
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| | Kick-boxing, then 4 miles on Milley...we ramped it up today, 1.5% incline at the steady 8:30 pace. It's feeling better, but mile 1-2 is still the hardest for me to get through. Felt kind of 'out of it' today...almost didn't run, but I talked myself back into it.
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| | Another nice 'n easy with the BBK's - they're all still recovering and I'm just enjoying it!!! :) Although there was the promise of no hills, we still hit a couple good ones, but looking at my paces I did a good job of keeping them steady (it's easier at a 9m pace than a 7mm pace!) AP: 8:48 splits: 9:31, 8:54, 8:51, 9:08, 8:54, 8:10, 8:11 Run felt good and I honestly wished I could've gone a little further this morning. Now I'm off to the gym for 45 min of personal training, Zumba, then I'm going to take 30 min afterward to stretch since I have to miss yoga for training :(
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Normal Friday routine - 22 miles in one hour on the bike at consistent resistance (3.5%) then a short quick 5K - 8:20 pace at variable inclines (the new TM's have a '5K run' program, so I tried it out). Then I put it up to 7:30 pace for the last .25...I was just done. Now to decide where to run 16 tomorrow.....
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| | The 'outskirts' of Herriman tour this morning - I think I hit or passed the North, South, East and West borders of the city! Long run, complicated morning coupled with anxiety and frustration and bad eating the night before...needed the run, but kept threatening myself that I just wouldn't do it! Got up anyway and headed out in the dark, having a headlamp at 6:00 is nice, but at 8:00 the sun was shinning in my eyes giving me a headache and I'm sure a few people got a good laugh at seeing me running with it still on my head - but what am I to do with it at that point? Had to make a park pop stop at mile 7.5, and thought I was going to DIE on mile 14 and 15 when I was completely out of fuel and had to run my last 2 mile hill! I did stop at the gym at mile 9 to grab some water, but I've now learned I need fuel (gatorade, gu, jelly beans, etc) to keep myself from feeling like I'm going to fall over on a long run! Pace wasn't bad, but I wasn't setting any land speed records for sure. I kept it good until about 10 when I could feel myself needing that fuel, but I just pushed through NOT willing to quit, but again threatening myself that I was just going to cut it short or call Craig to come pick me up. AP- 8:47 splits: 8:59, 9:02, 8:05, 8:37, 8:42, 8:26, 7:56 (NICE downhill!), 8:28, 8:54, 8:43, 8:38, 8:52, 8:53 (starting to slow...then comes the uphill), 9:43, 9:53 (still kept it under 10! :) ), 8:42 (last flat/down push). Finished at a 7:42 for the 50 ft I went over 16, so I guess I finally caught the spirit of the finish! I'm glad it's over, but would like to try to do 20 next week...we'll see how that goes. It should be a better Friday night/Saturday morning mentally for me, so I should be able to get through it. PLUS, I will bring fuel to consume while running!
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