| 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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| | ZUMBA! With Becca, the new certified Zumba instructor :) If I would have gotten to bed before 3AM I would've joined Kelli at the gym for some early morning miles.
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This morning's run with the Newtons was not about the pace per mile...but how many times I screamed and woke up the sleeping occupants of the homes we were running by as I slipped on the ice and almost killed myself :) The first few and the last few miles were probably the worst scream/mile ratio. It was like an ice rink out there! Don't trust 'wet' looking roads...black ice is worse on runners than cars. I kept just trying to run on the snow. Snow = good; ice = bad. The pace was super slow too, because of the conditions (or that is my excuse anyway). Either way, it was just nice to be OUTSIDE! It wasn't too cold and I have to remember that next time I try to chicken out and go inside. Then I went down to Lehi to do another Zumba class! Becca is an awesome teacher.
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| | A nice sleep in day, then met Becca at the gym. 1 on the track 2 on the TM 8:34 2 on the track 2 on the TM 16:40 - 8:20AP 1 on the track We get bored easily...can you tell? :) Stretch and now off to finish up Christmas shopping...
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| | Holy Coldness! It took all I had to get out of bed and not be a pansy this morning, and NOW I'm glad I did :) 16 is bitter cold...at least I think it may have been that warm. Urban Trail Loop with George and Chad. Despite multiple layers the wind bit right through! Questions I pondered on this run: Why is it that your FAT is what always gets and stays cold?!? Shouldn't it keep you warm? But mine is cold for HOURS afterward and even when I can tell my muscles are warm the outsides (fat) on my legs is cold...what gives? Why do you run so slow in the cold? Is it because you can't really warm up? I swear I can't get moving in the cold! Finally, why do I always get dizzy when I switch from dirt to road running? Is it because I don't have the ground to study in front of me so my mind finally relaxes and I can look up? Yeah, all that thinking and a lot of talking too :)
AP: 8:45 After finally warming up I headed off to spin class. I loved the kick-butt workout! 55 solid minutes of sweaty goodness!!
Today is my oldest child's birthday. My baby girl is 12....TWELVE!!! How or when did I get so old? When I turned 12, I asked my parents for a boy/girl party and went roller skating. My 'boyfriend' held my hand on the couples skate. I knew just about everything: what I was going to be when I grew up, who I was going to marry, where I was going to live, how many children I would have, the many ways I would change the world and show people how to do things and, most importantly, who I was! HA! I really think about turning 12 and feel like it was a huge milestone and changing point in my life. Because I was SO grown up. The world was my oyster. How in the world can I have a daughter that old and that can even THINK those kind of thoughts?!? I'm still learning how to be a good parent and there are LOTS of things I don't even want her to remember about me right now! :) Poor girl. Having her when I was 20 (almost 21) really forced her to grow up along side me as I did so. I don't know how I deserved such an amazing child to come into my life and I don't believe I deserve it most days. I guess I should just be glad she is more put-together, mature and forgiving than her mother is. Someday I hope she can forgive me for being such a crappy mother! I do my best, but man alive...that poor girl should only be 6! I should only have a 6 year old, maybe in 6 more years I'll be ready for her to be 12 and remember more :)
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I really didn't want to get out of bed this morning. Today is a whiny day for me. I just want to go to bed and eat the peanut brittle that Paul brought me! It is SO absolutely amazing...oh, if you like peanut brittle you MUST try Tiff's...yuuummmm.
I laid in bed thinking "no one would even know if I didn't run, no one reads my blog anymore, well, maybe because you don't read anyone else's blog you stinker! Maybe I can find a good excuse? I don't want to get dressed, it is late, shoot...I've got to get the kids to school. I don't have time to get ready first, I'll just come home and get stuff done and not go to the gym. Uggghhh, fine...I'll go."
So, I took kids to school, came home got laundry started, changed my clothes, made some phone calls and left for the gym. Just a short 6. Plug into the music and do it.
1 on the track
2 on the TM 16:45
1 on the track
2 on the TM 16:00 (8:20, 7:47+progressive finish)
Then I had to rush off to home to get my Kindergartner. Now I need to do about 5 weeks worth of cleaning, laundry and dishes. I'm tired of my husband working until midnight and playing single mom around Christmas. I'm burnt out and turning into more of a Scrooge than I normally am at Christmas. We finally got a Christmas tree Monday when dad got home at 8PM, but because he has been working so much he never gets home early enough to decorate it! So, I have a tree, undecorated sitting in my front room. NO other Christmas stuff up, because I need to clean first, but between my new calling at church, crazy life and lack of motivation can't get the cleaning done! Stink. So, today is the day. I'm going to get it done. I want my kids to enjoy a FEW days of Christmas anticipation at home...maybe? :)
Sorry I've been such a bad blogger lately. I get FB lazy - check on a lot of you there and just don't get on the blog enough! | |
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| | 6 up and back in Provo Canyon with Rachelle's Christmas Eve run. Met some fun new people and got to see some ol' familiar faces too. I had a good time just chatting and pulling up the rear, oh well, speed eludes me lately. Just after Nunns park the trail is closed...and unplowed. Stink. My calf/ankle/foot was not ready for more snow running. But, I plowed through the super slow uphill snow miles...despite the whining. Thankfully, Becca convinced me not to stop and turn around early. The way down was wonderful, except I felt like crap. I hate my horrible, yucky feeling days. Lightheaded, stomach yuck, fatigue...this is getting old. Lunch at Kneaders was wonderful! It is always yummy and wrapped in my stinky blanket (my go-to blanket when I'm sweaty/stinky and cold) with a hot cocoa in my hands I avoided the uncontrollable shaking. AP: 8:49; splits: 8:48, 8:43, 9:02, 9:22, 10:00, 10:41, 9:04, 8:25, 7:56, 7:58, 7:59, 7:56
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