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Hurricane Half Marathon

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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 got a sub for my zumba class, and got in a 10 miler around the watertower loop that evening.  abs still felt tight, but do-able.  slow miles  My little guy evan who's 4 rode his bike for the last 2 miles of it with me, and my little chihuahua came along as well.  I was so impressed that they both kept up.  i loved it:)

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core class - again abs did not hurt

6 miles on the tread - lots of ab massaging - abs ok - not great

flex class - only did some of it

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Tempo run on the treadmill with varying hills.miles slowly imcreased pace. miles 2-3 - 7:00, miles 4-6 - 6:08, 

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easy run around the neighborhood.  abs tightened up whenever i headed down any sort of incline, but legs felt good.  I called another p.t. and will meet with them tomorrow to get a second opinion on what's going on.

I taught zumba and amazingly abs were ok.  maybe all the massaging is helping???

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I met with a new p.t. and was disappointed  to hear that the one who would be helping me was a new therapist...ahh...i need someone with experience!  the last thing that she said to me was, sorry i don't feel like we helped you much.  Thankfully though, she did some research and called me later.  i may know what is causing my problem.  It has to do with the diaphragm and the liver -if i don't take breaths into my abs and it stays shallow in my chest, it can cause the ligaments in the diaphram to strain.  I've been under lots of stress lately and that could cause it as well.  soooo, concentrating on deep breaths into my belly when i run may be the fix.

while at the p.t. she also "scraped" my abs, which may have helped the next day during my race.

I decided to go ahead and run the hurricane half the next day.  i'll take some ibuprofen and get through it.

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Race: Hurricane Half Marathon (13.1 Miles) 01:27:09, Place overall: 1, Place in age division: 1
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Well it aint called Hurricane Utah for nothing. The wind did the city proud today.  Unfortunately I had to run in it today - Fortunately i had a decent race.  I got to the starting line 15 min before the race started, and really didn't feel that bad about not getting much of a warm up in.  The wind was bone chilling!  I felt perfectly dressed for the race, but had forgotten my gloves - I have never wanted them more during a race!  (wore arm warmers, race singlet, shorts, headband, and compression socks).  That was one of the first races were i had less on than my hubby:)

It was great to see so many familiar faces at the start -lots of friends and  a bunch of my ladies from class were tackling their first 1/2 marathon today and it was so cool to see their commitment!  I felt pretty confident in my race that day - I was hoping for a 1:24 or 1:25 - With a strong, cold headwind that day, a  hilly 1st 5 miles, and nemisis to be climbed, that sort of time would have been a tall order.  As I toed the line, i looked around and didn't recognize anyone that was going to challenge me for 1st (but you defintely never know).  I tried to not hold myself back like i tend to do.

I saw that i was right as i stayed out in front of even the guys for the first 8 miles. Here are my splits.

1 - 6:24 - flat

2 - 6:33 - flat -slightly up - i was already thirsty and the first aid station didn't have any cups!

3.- 6:33 - rolling up - I kept eyeing the lake and was glad that i wasn't the one doing the ironman next week - that lake is going to be freezing!!!

4 - 6:35 - up then down, starting to turn into the wind - my hands were painfully freezing

6 - 6:55 - started up nemisis - nasty, nasty hill - now wind is straight on, ugh!

7 -7:51 - end of nemisis - had to get legs moving down the other side - we now are running into a headwind for the rest of the race;(

8 - 6:40 - down then up - 1st guy catches me here, next guy is a ways back next girl  is not even sight

9 - 6:38 -

10 -6:45

11 -6:45

12 - 6:33 - i knew i had secured 1st woman at this point, but i wanted to catch the 1st guy - just to say i did.  He continued to speed up and I finished about a minute back.

13 - 6:26

.2 - 6:24

My body wanted to go harder on the last 5 miles, but the wind was puting up a good fight. I had taken some ibuprofen, so i'm not sure how my abs handled it.  I tried to concentrate on the deep breathing, and it may have helped.  My diaphragm area still felt tight during the race, but i was definitely manageable.  My abs twinged at the end, but that's it!   hopefully this means that they are on their way back:) 

Ran 1 cool down mile and got to pace my hubby in - so proud of him:) and cheered my friends in.   I changed into some fresh clothes right when i finished, but i still froze my tush off until after the awards ceremony.

I'm happy about how i did today.  i would've liked a faster time, but felt like i did what i could today.  I wish the Hurricane half would step up and improve their race as their were many things i'd change.  it does have potential.  the old course was much faster and drew more competition - classic sports did a much better job sponsoring it!  They we\re not the most organized or enthusiastic crew today either - but maybe they were hating being in that wind as much as we did.  Anyways , there's my 2 cents.  I was happy to get a $50 gift certificate to both Classic Sports and Hill Sports! 

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