| 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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| Mizuno Inspire II Miles: 36.60 | Mizuno Miles: 3.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 43.00 | Nap Time: 1.50 | Total Sleep Time: 44.50 | Weight: 0.00 | |
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Not quite sure I could call this morning's run a run...more like a nice jog :) I went out not wanting to push or be pushed...just nice and easy, and that's what I got. I really need to get Lucy out more, she's getting bored and starting to find things to do/dig in the backyard to entertain herself, so I want to try to get up and do 3-4 each morning with her. She's kind of forgotten how to run with me, pulling a little too much when she gets 'excited' about something, but when she started getting tired around mile 3 then it got much better :) AP: 9:34 splits: 9:24, 9:16, 9:58, 9:35 - I did the stake 5K loop with an extra mile at the end. Now I'm going to go to the gym for step class and I may do another nice and slow 4 on Milley to make it a nice easy eight...stay tuned. **Finished the gym. Did step and another 4 easy on the TM 9:30 pace **
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| Mizuno Inspire II Miles: 8.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 7.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 7.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Woke up to get to early miles, but my 5 yr old had other plans...he filled his bed with puke as I was getting ready, so I got to clean up :) I BARELY made it to regular miles and had to run to catch the group. The weather was lovely (spoken very sarcastically!), I'd forgotten how nice it was to run with the sleet blowing into your face. Because I had to start out fast the first couple miles were faster than I would've liked, but then I took it back to a nice easy jog. AP: 8:59, splits: 8:29, 8:31, 9:16, 9:28, 8:52, 9:18, 8:55 (last .5) Came home and got a nap, because kids are off track and I didn't have to get them up and showered! Hit the gym (kids stayed home, Dad's work has asked that if anyone in the family is sick to telecommute) and did a training session, a little of everything, and then did 5 miles/20 minutes on the bike. I think I'm going to have a nice lazy day at home :)
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| Mizuno Inspire II Miles: 6.50 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 7.00 | Nap Time: 1.00 | Total Sleep Time: 8.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | All of you who were praising me for running outside yesterday can now take it back. I got up, saw the snow and got scared and went back to bed :) I figured the TM would be fine today, poor Lucy would just have to suffer! Went to the gym for kick-boxing (soon changing the name to boot camp class) and did mostly circuits, but kept the heart rate up! Then did the TM for 3 miles at an easy 9:30 pace - taking it easy to gear up for tomorrows BBK day. The cold and snow doesn't scare them, so tomorrow I'll have to be brave...or wear 10 layers of clothing!
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| Night Sleep Time: 9.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 9.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | After going to bed I decided to not do the early miles, but just do the main workout with the BBK's. However, I guess I don't think well in the morning. I got all confused about re-setting my alarm clock and woke in a panic thinking I was late for main miles! I had 2 minutes to get out of the house, I raced and grabbed and raced in the car. When I got there I saw 3 people running away from the cemetery...not towards it. I actually stopped and inquired where the rest of the group was. Confused they said "the cemetery is the MAIN miles" - DUH!! The whole drive there it didn't dawn on me that I was trying to get there by 5:15 and not 5:45! Not until that moment did I realize I was now in for the early miles and missed out on the extra 20 minutes of sleep! Seriously...where is my brain?? So, I did get going and when you have to jump right out of the car and head off to running you have no time to think about how cold it is! I didn't feel cold at all (with my 4 layers on) until we stopped at the cemetery to do the relay race. I wasn't quite racing this morning...as my splits will tell and poor Melanie (my partner) had to put up with my being last...BAD last! :( After that we did 3 hill climbs/loops then another big loop back to the parking lot. Nancy R had brought doughnuts for everyone - what a lovely halloween treat!! YUM! Oh, just as a funny side note (for all of you who may not know what an amazon I am) I wore a clown wig and my halloween shirt to 'dress up' today. I ran 2 miles with Julie in the early miles and when we got back to the parking lot I was commenting about how I was hoping I wasn't the only one goofy enough to 'dress up' - Julie looked at me and laughed "I didn't even realize you were wearing a wig!" I just had to laugh. Seriously, is my head really that high up? :) Came home and got a quick nap (I'm going to miss these when the kids go back on track!) then went to the gym for yoga and zumba. I really like zumba, but really just wasn't feeling it today... oh well, maybe next week. I'm taking my Thursdays off of training and just doing Tuesdays until my money runs out. AP: 9:21 splits: 9:24, 9:05, 9:26, 9:49, 8:31, 8:31, 9:56, 9:48, 9:36 - nice and easy...I'm loving it!
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| Mizuno Inspire II Miles: 9.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.50 | Total Sleep Time: 6.50 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Nothing...had to work at 8:30 and I set my alarm to get up, but I didn't want to...so I didn't. I may go on a walk with all the kids, we'll see. I guess I'm rationalizing it by using it as a 'taper' day for tomorrow's race...not that I'm racing, but I'd like to take a good 8mm pace. |
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Halloween 1/2 marathon (13.1 Miles) 02:00:32, Place in age division: 47 | |
WHAT A FUN HALLOWEEN RUN! I had a great time! Again, let me remind you I wasn't 'racing' just having a great time with friends on a lovely Halloween morning. Met Walter, Becca and Shelly on the bus up and then at Aspen Grove found Josse, Julie, Steph and Heather. Finally, after wondering if my bride would ever show...Luz and Katherine came! The race started an HOUR late. I was hungry and tired of standing by the time we finally started, that's a new one for me. Started out slow and at the back of the crowd (chip start time didn't work, so I'm using my Garmin time instead of their time) and it was really fun to see all of the costumes and how fun runners can be - we DON'T have to be seriously competitive all the time!! Stopped once down the canyon to do a little 'bridal' shoot of Luz, then at mile 5 stopped behind 4 or 5 people for a potty break. Then at Bridal Veil Falls we HAD to stop and do another bridal shoot and some action shots. Stopped again at Vivian park to check bathrooms and do another photo op of me to reply a pic text to my sister (Quiet Pirate) who ran a 10K this morning. Finally around 10 it warmed up and we were getting hot and miserable (Luz in her dress, Katherine in her 'bug' and me in my wig). Decided just to finish it out, but saw Katherine's hubby and kids and made another pit stop to say hello, then took off again. At mile 12 Katherine's long awaited wish was answered with a pop available so I finished the last one on my own. It's great to have enough energy to push fast through a crowd that has paced out to 9+mm...a few of them didn't see me coming and it's a lot easier to catch people at that pace :) When I crossed the finish line I'd always wanted to have enough energy to 'hitch kick' at the finish line, so I finally did! I don't know if they got a picture of it though...I don't the photographer saw ME coming either -hehehe Overall it was a wonderful race and I had the best time ever! Seriously, the miles just FLEW by thanks to Luz and Katherine!! Afterward looking at the race board, I knew on this course with the CRAZY downhill at the start I could've taken at least top 5 in my AG (3rd was 1:38 I think, so I may have busted that!). That kind of got to me and I started regretting my finish, but then I realized that if I had done that I would've missed the AMAZING experience, conversation and fun that was had for those 2 hours with those 2 ladies. No regrets...no regrets! AP: 9:12 splits: 8:59, 9:19, 7:43, 8:11, 12:02 (pop), 8:56, 10:09, 10:16, 8:38, 10:04, 9:04, 7:54, 7:38 (last .1) - so, it looks like our miles w/out stopping were really around 8:30-9:00, so somewhere in there must've been our REAL AP for running. However, this wasn't a race...it was a photo op :)  
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| Mizuno Inspire II Miles: 36.60 | Mizuno Miles: 3.00 |
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