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Location:

UT,

Member Since:

Oct 14, 2008

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Age Division Winner

Running Accomplishments:

85 marathons, 5 times Utah Grand Slam finisher (division winner twice).

7 Bostons (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2016).

Two 50Ks, one 50 miler (Pony Express).

A handful of AG wins in all distance races.

Marathon PR: 3:57:09 (Boston'08)

Half Marathon PR: 1:48:41 (Bryce Canyon '11)

10K PR: 47:50 (Spectrum 10K '09)

5K PR: 22:31 (Nestle 5K '08)
 

Short-Term Running Goals:

2017 Races:

June 10 - Utah Valley Marathon (5:13:43)

June 24 - Morgan Valley Marathon (5:49:01)

July 8 - Hobbler Half (2:19:37, 2nd AG)

July 24 - Temple to Temple 5K (27:43)

July 29 - Timp Half (2:08:01, 3rd AG)

Aug 26 - Mt. Nebo Marathon (5:16:16, 3rd AG)

Sep 16 - Huntsville Marathon (4:48:53)

Oct 7 - St. Geroge Marathon (4:57:11)

Nov 4 - Canyon City Marathon (5:30:07)

2018 Races:

Jan 13 - St. George Half (2:19:45, 3rd AG)

Mar 3 - The Woodlands Marathon (5:01:35)

Apr 6-7 - Ragnar So. California

June 1-2 - Ragnar Wasatch Back

June 9 - Utah Valley Marathon (5:19:22)

June 30 - Morgan Valley Half

Sep 1 - Pocatello Marathon (6:00:43)

Sep 15 - Huntsville Marathon (5:37:08)

Oct 6 - St. George Marathon (5:25:43)

Oct 20 - SoJo Marathon (5:29:23)

2019 Races:

June 1 - Utah Valley Marathon (5:44:24)

June 22 - Morgan Valley Marathon (6:15:13)

Aug 31 - Pocatello Marathon (5:38:47)

Sep 14 - Big Cottonwood Marathon (6:03:51)

Oct 5 - St. George Marathon (5:57:46)

Oct 12 - SoJo Marathon (5:55:45)

2020 Races:

Jan 18 - St. George Half (2:38:28)

Feb 15 - Sun Marathon (5:51:54)

May 5 - Conquer Covid-19 Virtual Marathon (5:49:07)

May 16 - Clear Creek Canyon Half Marathon (2:32:15)

May 25 - Utah Valley Virtual Marathon (5:33:110

June 9 - Independence Run Virtual Marathon (5:55:22)

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

Run happy and healthy all the days of my life. Be an example and inspiration to my family.

 

Personal:

I'm 64, retired RN, happily married, nana to 14 beautiful grandchildren, mother to 6 children (1 daughter, 5 sons) who are kind, hardworking, caring, wonderful people! Wish they live closer!!!  :)  :)  :)

Picked up running in 2005 at age 50, to stay healthy so I can take care of my husband who had endocarditis resulting in AVR and MVR in 2004, end stage renal failure in 2014, kidney transplant on Dec 30, 2015.  Six months after the kidney transplant, we discovered that he has a rare auto-immune disease that was probably triggered in 2004 with then the undiagnosed infective endocarditis.  The doctors had to make up a name for this rare disease, Monoclono Gammopathy with Renal Significance (MGRS).  It is not curable.  After desperately trying different chemotherapies, the doctor finally found one immuno-therapy, Daratumamab, that works to treat the MGRS.  It is a miracle!!! 

Grateful for the gift of life, blessings, dear friends and loved ones!!! Thankful for the ability to move, walk, jog, and yes run!!!!

 

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Saucony Guide ISO Wide Lifetime Miles: 311.91
Saucony Guide ISO Lifetime Miles: 313.31
Sacony Guide ISO (2) Lifetime Miles: 225.26
Altra Torin (sz 7) Lifetime Miles: 44.49
Saucony Guide 10 (2020) Lifetime Miles: 60.91
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
20.4519.305.002.0046.75
Wave Rider 7 Miles: 16.20Mizuno Inspire 4 Sz6.5 Lime Green (B) Miles: 15.20Mizuno Inspire 4 Sz 6.5 (A) Miles: 15.35
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
2.005.003.000.0010.00

4 weeks 'till Boston!!!

Winter returned this morning.  So I scrapped my VO2 max workout (was going to do 9 Yasso's).  Opted to run a tempo run under "controlled" environment.  Warm up for 2 miles then ran 5 miles at 8:34 and 8:27.  Ran the last 5K at 8:20.   Felt good throughout the run.  Drank 6 oz water after 60 min of running.  Walk for 5 min. cool down.

10 miles in 1:26:25  AP:  8:38

AM/PM Yoga

Push up: 50, 15, 15, 20 with 5 seconds pause between sets

Breakfast: kashi cereal with milk, yogurt, banana, gatorade.  Lost 0.5 lb post run.  Drank 24 oz water.  Lunch:  stir-fry of sugar snap peas, sweet red peppers & chicken breasts over rice, apple, almonds, blue berries.

Found out my oldest son (eric) is on this blog.  Too bad he lives so far; or he could do some training runs with Sasha and talk Russian.

Wave Rider 7 Miles: 10.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
Comments(11)
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
9.000.000.000.009.00

Just like Spring weather in Utah which can't decide to be warm or cold, calm or windy.... I had a hard time deciding what to run this morning.  Should I do intervals, hill workout, medium long run, or what?  I started out with just a l/s shirt and tights, brrr, it's colder than I thought.  Went back to get a jacket, brrr, the hands were cold, went back to get gloves, the sun peeked out, went back to get sunglasses.  I must have run over 0.25 mile to make wardrobe adjustments.

I finally headed west to do the hills first.  It's funny how after couple of warm up miles your body just tells you what you should do.  The legs were sluggish.  I ended up running 9 miles at an easy recovery pace.  There was an intermittent headwind the entire run.  It didn't matter whether I was heading north, south, east or west, the wind would come up then die but I never got a tail wind.  Good thing I had my jacket and gloves. 

9 miles in 1:27:58  AP: 9:46

I wonder...Is it common or normal to have uneven wears on your shoes?  My left shoe heel always wears out more and faster than the right one. 

Mizuno Inspire 4 Sz6.5 Lime Green (B) Miles: 9.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
Comments(16)
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
1.001.202.002.006.20

26.2 days 'till Boston!!!

Nothing like adverse weather to get the creative juice going.  I really don't want to get another headache like I got yesterday from that wicked head wind and springtime allergy.  So, what to do?  Head down to the trusty mill, set it at 2% incline, crank up the fan, with channel 11 blasting away (there're several KBYU channels now with the digital converter box, cool) I ran a 10K with 8x400m intervals.

Warm up 1 mile ~ progressively increase every .25 mile (10:00, 9:40, 9:22, 9:05, 8:49).

8 x 400m intervals from mile 2 to 5.75 ~ Did .25 mi intervals @ 7:30.  Recover .25 mi @ 8:34 in between.

Cool down ~ slow pace down every minute by 7 sec. increments (8:00, 8:13, 8:20, 8:27) 'till I reach 6.2 mile.

TT 51:39  AP: 8:19

Around the world + fast abs core workout 30 reps

Brain Training phase 1, 2, 3, 4, omitting the single-leg box jumps (I'm a real clutz)

Wave Rider 7 Miles: 6.20
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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Hail, snow, wind, white-out blizzard!  Need to run errands today.  May be a short run later, probably not!  Stay safe everyone!!! 

Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
Comments(9)
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.200.000.000.006.20

Beautiful sunny cold morning. T in the high 20's, no wind.  Wore tights, l/s shirt, thermafit jacket, headband, gloves & sunglasses.  6.2 miles recovery pace with 4 x 100m strides.

TT: 58:30.  AP: 9:26. 

AM/PM Yoga

 

Mizuno Inspire 4 Sz6.5 Lime Green (B) Miles: 6.20
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
Comments(31)
Race: Riverton 1/2 Marathon (13.1 Miles) 01:56:42, Place overall: 23, Place in age division: 1
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
2.2513.100.000.0015.35

 THANKS EVERYONE for such a FUN RACE and PARTY afterwards!!!!

What great friends!!! Kelli picked up my packet, Bec picked me up at my house, all I had to do was show up to run this thing.  Behold, so did the cold wind!  I wish I had my running fleece; but all I had was my Boston jacket which was a bit heavy.  It kept me warm 'till mile 8.  In the process of taking it off, I had stopped the Garmin inadverdently for about 0.25 mile; so my splits are a little off.

What a delight to see so many friends and bloggers, RivertonPaul, Walter, Jose, Allen, Nancy and many others.  Marion and I pinned on our bibs in her car and hit the bathroom.  At the start, Marcie N. found me and we lined up together and chatted 'till "gun off" and so did she, the speedster.   My plan was to do this whole thing at marathon pace.  There was a nice tail wind and gentle descend so everyone went out fast.  I kept my pace within 10 sec of mp.  I chatted with a few runners about Boston who noticed my jacket.  We hit the first hill where I saw a gal in my age division.  I passed her as we crested the hill and made it a goal to keep her at far distance behind.  On the trail, a gal ran up to me and we chatted the whole way.  She's trying to BQ at SLC in 3 weeks.  It was fun to encourage her and give a few pointers.  That made running up the hills and wind bearable.  I was right on pace at the half way point.

I took a Gu at the aid station where we got off the trail, about mile 7.  BQ gal took off.  I gradually reeled her in and resumed talking.  We chugged up the S hill and was surprised at how easy my breathing was compare to hers.  With 5K to go, I decided to make the move to drop her.  My legs felt great so I ran those at 8:30 pace (about 1/2 marathon race pace).  After I crossed the finish, I kept jogging for another 2.25 miles.  I wanted to run 4 but was worried that my bro-in-law, Bec, Marion and Kelli had to wait plus I didn't want to get lost.   We had a great time visiting at the Pizzeria.  Hubby was on his way home from skiing so he took me home.  It was a perfect day!!!  It was a nice Sat. long run, no soreness to speak of today.

Question:  does anyone know if division winners get any prize besides a medal?  I didn't have my result card when I went to get my medal and the guy was hesitant to give it to me.  Also, my bro-in-law left without his medal, he took 2nd in his AG.  He flew in to run this thing and flew out the same night.  I wonder if they still have his medal.

Mizuno Inspire 4 Sz 6.5 (A) Miles: 15.35
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
Comments(20)
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
20.4519.305.002.0046.75
Wave Rider 7 Miles: 16.20Mizuno Inspire 4 Sz6.5 Lime Green (B) Miles: 15.20Mizuno Inspire 4 Sz 6.5 (A) Miles: 15.35
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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