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Location:

Millcreek,UT,

Member Since:

Jun 21, 2011

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

800m- 2:23

1600m- 5:10

1 Mile- 5:12

3200m-11:03

XC 3 mile-17:55

XC 5k- 19:00

XC 6k- 22:25

Local 5k- 18:42

Local 10k- 41:31

Local 15k- 1:03:55

Unofficial Half (2020)- 1:45:46

Official Half (2021)- 1:49:28

60% (5 miles)- 32:32 (6:30 average)

80% (3 miles)- 18:52 (6:17 average)

16x400s- 82.0 average

20x400s- 82.6 average

SUU Road Race- 23:30 (3.9 miles/6:02 average)

Short-Term Running Goals:

Get up to 45-50 miles/week

Run a sub-19:30 5k again

Train for and race a half marathon

Long-Term Running Goals:

18:45 or under 5k

Run a marathon

Personal:

26 years old, not married, no kids. Going against the norm in Utah.

Mental health advocate, LGBTQ+ rights supporter. Newly identified bisexual woman. Ex-mormon

Former college runner for Southern Utah University

Current Employment and Community Engagement Manager at a special needs company called Atlas Advocacy Services.

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Adidas Distancestar Spikes Lifetime Miles: 3.00
Adidas Boston 7 Lifetime Miles: 430.33
Nike Pegasus 34 Lifetime Miles: 493.60
Nike Pegasus 34 II Lifetime Miles: 365.31
Nike Pegasus 36 Lifetime Miles: 480.43
Nike Pegasus 36 II Lifetime Miles: 319.00
Nike Pegasus 37 Lifetime Miles: 188.01
New Balance FuelCore Nergize V1 (walking) Lifetime Miles: 219.85
Nike Pegasus Turbo Lifetime Miles: 31.68
Total Distance
4.00

VA loop. Legs felt tired again, but it was also warm enough for shorts! As was yesterday. Today it was windy and started to drizzle at the end of my run.

This week I've been at a stable place mood-wise, which I think has helped me with motivation. I adjusted medications on Tuesday to hopefully stabilize my moods further- to have less frequent dips into depression and less intensity within those dips. The meds I've been on seem to have eliminated hypomania almost completely, interestingly enough. I wonder if that's possible for bipolar 2 depression, at the right dose and on the right meds. One can hope. To have only the occasional dip into depression, that would be amazing. 

Nike Pegasus 34 II Miles: 4.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
Comments
From Sasha Pachev on Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 21:56:30 from 72.250.218.114

For the half marathon, in your current condition if you just get out and run that is the best way to train it. You have plenty of speed to run down your fuel supplies and destroy your quads and calves. So the more miles you put in (reasonably), the better result you will have as this will improve your fuel storage and muscular impact resilience.

For the depression, while you will likely never completely get rid of it, your ability to control it greatly depends on how well you do at being able to convince yourself to get out for a run daily. Think of your run as part of your medication routine. That is actually how I think of mine. I do not know what would happen to me if I did not run, and I do not want to find out - I never missed more than 3 consecutive days since I started. I do know, though, that at 40 miles a week I become more irritable. Before I started running at the age of 11 I had a hard time concentrating in school, and a modern doctor would probably have diagnosed me with ADHD or some other disorder. With that, I never needed the type of medication that you have to buy at a pharmacy - consistent running has taken care of it so far.

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