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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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Walked with Wendy.  Stretched a ton.

 


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Ran 4.5 with Karen.  Walked 0.5 with Jessica.

Missing Emi, Eric and Marianne terribly! :(  But we'll see them later this week when we flew to Des Moines for his graduation and help them drive/move to Cleveland!

Lots of stretching while cleaning the house!

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5 easy with Karen.  Beautiful blue sky!  Shin were bothersome, R worse than L.  Wearing compression sleeves.  Gentle stretching throughout the day.  Need to register for PCM soon.

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After a long day of flying, finally arrived at Des Moines around 4:30.  The hotel is within quarter mile to the airport.  Eric and I went for a quick run before dinner.  It had rained the day before so a bit humid.  Looks like today's the only sunny day this week. 

We had dinner at Waterfront Restaurant in Ankeny, a nice seafood restaurant.  Note to shubby, do not take a toddler to fancy restaurant! :)

Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 3.00
Night Sleep Time: 4.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 4.00Weight: 0.00
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30 min. elliptical in the hotel's fitness center.  

The University hosted a picnic for all the graduates and their families on campus.

Emi loves picnic! :)

After taking the family back to the hotel, while Emi napped, Eric drove us to Gray's Lake for a run.  It was a very pleasant run in the rain around the lake twice.  The parkway has imprints of birds and butterflies.  I don't know if it was short on time or running at sea level, I ran it progressively faster.  The legs felt pretty good. :)  

In the evening, hubby and I and Emi had our own dates while Eric and Marianne went to a dinner and reception for the graduates and their spouses.

Elixir 5 (charcoal) Miles: 7.00
Night Sleep Time: 5.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 5.00Weight: 0.00
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Eric and I got up at 5:45am and drove to Gray's Lake for an early run before Graduation Commencement which began at 9am and we had to leave the hotel by 8am.  We ran along the Des Moines River out and back for a little over 6 miles then around the lake once.  It was overcast with a misty rain, the sun peeked thru the clouds for a brief moment while we ran at the lake.  This was a very memorable and beautiful run.  Eric used to run here when he was a med student with couple of his classmates.  This will be the last time he'd run here.  Many emotions went through my mind as we talked about the past, my childhood, his dad, his experience at DMU and his future.  I would treasure our talks and this beautiful run forever! :)

The commencement was great; but a little too long (3+hours) for a wiggly two year old Emi.  My legs got stiffened up and my feet very sore from walking in heels.

Dr. Eric J. Lew

After the graduation ceremony, we grabbed a quick bite; then went to get the rental truck.  We loaded Eric's and Marianne's household items and furnitures from a storage unit onto the 16' truck.  Thankfully the rain has stopped when we were loading the truck.  My arms got pretty tired.

Marianne hadn't seen her stored contents for 18 months.  I think they did a fantastic job dejunking and boxing up their things.  They had to move their furnitures across town twice while they were in Iowa.  They're grateful for our help to move across States this time.

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