| Location: toquerville,ut,usa Member Since: Jan 24, 2011 Gender: Female Goal Type: Local Elite Running Accomplishments: -I'm an avid runner and crossfitter turned obstacle racer. This year has brought on new and unexpected opportunities racing in Spartan races. I'm in love with this new challenging part of my life.
Here is what I've come away with so far
1st - Socal Super Spartan 2013
1st - Texas Sprint Spartan2013
2nd- Las Vegas Super Spartan 2013
3rd - Arizona Sprint Spartan 2013
3rd - Atlas Obstacle Race 2013
5th - Spartan World Championships 2013
Future Races
October?? maybe Sacramento Beast Spartan
December - Texas Beast
Short-Term Running Goals: I am working to become the best obstacle racer I can be. If that goes hand in hand with a National Championship title, than I will have met 2 of my goals/dreams.
Long-Term Running Goals: Another sub 3 hour marathon
Sub 1:20 half marathon
I want to complete an ironman and some ultra races.
I Hope to be running until I'm 100.
Personal: I have 2 boys (7 and 4) and a little girl (14 months) that keep me on my toes and make life worth living.. I've been married to my better half (Jim clark) for 10 years. I teach fitness classes and am a personal trainer - my 2nd love is Zumba! I love what i do!
I hold Obstacle Training Groups at my house on saturdays -I feel so blessed to be able to help others. |
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I did it! i gave away 2 of my classes for a while so i can train more. it seriously is such a stress relief.
I did zumba this morning and then ran 4 easy miles in a lightning storm - ahhh. | |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 | 8.00 |
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My dixie track workout.
1st round
30 regular pushups, 30 frog crunches, 30 burpees, 30 jumping lunges - then 5 sprints up the stadium
2nd round
30 decline pushups, 30 oblique cruches, 30 burpees, 30 hindu squats - 5 sprints up stadium
3rd round
20 pushups - knee comes to shoulder, 20 tricep pusheps, 2 min elbow plank
running workout - 2 miles warm up - 7 x 800 m with .25 recovery - had to run around the block since their was a soccer game going on - the first part of the interval was uphill, 2nd downhill
splits 800 m - 3:03, 2:56, 2:55, 2:45, 2:46, 2:47, 2:50
1 mile cool down
abs started bugging on last interval - what is the deal???? | |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
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I am so done with the ab thing i've got going on. I can't figure out how to manage it. My run was not good at all today. i shouldn't have tried to run through the pain, but i did. My abs/ribs bugged the whole time, but were feeling ok by the end. I think they just get inflamed by the end. I ran the cholla creek trail, and had to stop and wrap my abs - which didn't really help. I don't want to have to rest them. this is a big week for me!
On the bright side, i got into UV marathon today - yeah! I wish my abs would stop bugging so i could be more excited. | |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 7.00 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 14.00 |
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I got up this morning and my abs were aching a little. i had planned on doing the club run later, but didn't know if my abs would last. I got up and ran 3 miles on the treadmill. the 1st mile was not so great, but next 2 were ok. so i decided that i was going to try the run.
Went to p.t. today, and had ultrasound, stimulation done on it ribs/abs. He told me that i could still do abs and other cardio - this is not something you tell a runner. I have to find a way to run. So he showed me how to wrap my ribs so they wouldn't bug (didn't help the abs but at least ribs were stabilzed.
I drove over the club run and showed up 7 min late. no one was there so i assumed i had missed them. thankfully clyde showed up, and i got to jump in with him. Even though he just ran a marathon, he pushed me to a solid pace. And may i mention that the freaking wind was blowing! again!
I was wearing the wrap, but right away my ribs and abs were not loving me (and it was way hard to breathe). By mile 6, i was ready to give it up for the day and let clyde go. i took the wrap off, and things started to feel a little better. so i ended up running up the trail til i found clyde coming back. i ended up getting 9 miles or so in (we didn't have garmins). felt like a 6:45 average or so. My abs were ok again, but started up about the last mile. Clyde had a good talk about our similar injury, so i'm hoping his advice will work for me.
I taught zumba tonight,and it was awful. i eeked my way through it and my abs were hurting till the ibuprofen kicked in. they are sore tonight, and i will not run tomorrow - maybe will try to hit up a spin class. I'm so frustrated right now! I've got to get this 20 miler in this weekend and don't know if my abs will hold out. I wasn't planning on tapering for race next week, but maybe i will so it will help my abs get better....again. | |
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| rest day - trying to calm my abs down | |
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I had a 20 miler on the schedule, but i got 1 whole mile in before my abs were freaking out. I felt like being depressed about it and just giving up on the day, but i ran back home, got on my road bike, and went for a nice ride. It felt so good to be back on my old girl after a 6 mo break. i was just going to ride the leeds loop - 27 miles, but got to hurricane and was feeling so good that i added on 10 more. So i ended up riding over 2 hours. my legs were pretty dead but i was suprised how strong i felt. i averaged 17 mph even with a headwind.
Went to see april for a massage that night. i was so sure that i was unfixable, but she got my abs to release again - can i just say that that woman is amazing! I still don't know what is causing my abs to do this, but at least i might be able to run on monday! | |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 22.00 | 7.00 | 2.00 | 4.00 | 35.00 |
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