I Can Do Hard Things

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Location:

American Fork,UT,

Member Since:

Nov 27, 2009

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

St George Marathon

2011 - 4:11:52

2017. -4:01:17

2021 - 4:03:05

Salt Lake City Full Marathon

2013 - 4:23:03

Ogden Marathon

2012 - 3:58:35

2013 - 4:17:20

2014 - 4:02:51

2017 - 3:55:22**

2023 - 3:57:09

Utah Valley Marathon

2019 - 4:05:37

Top of Utah Marathon

2014 - 4:09:27

Mt Charleston Marathon

2019 - 4:05:33

West Mountain Marathon

2015 - 4:42:34

St George Half Marathon

2012 - 1:55:00

2013 - 2:03:00

2014 - 1:46:00

2015 - 1:48:00

2022- 1:42:45**

Salt Lake City Half Marathon

2012 - 1:51:00

2014 - 1:44:01

Hobble Creek Half Marathon

2001 - 1:40:00**

2011 - 1:45:00

2012 - 1:43:00

2013 - 1:43:00

2022 - 1:48:53

Ogden Half Marathn

2024 - 1:48:58 - 3rd place in AG

American Fork Half Marathon

2013 - 1:48:24

2014- 1:53:23 (pacing Tim)

2017 - 1:47:54

2018 - 1:48:12

2019 - 1:47:50

Timp Half Marathon

2012 - 1:47:18

2022 - 1:49:40 (AF Cancer course)

Utah Valley Half Marathon

2011 - 1:55:00

Top of Utah Half Marathon

2010 - 1:48:20

The Haunted Half Provo

2018 - 1:51:28

Goblin Valley 50K

2014 - 5:58

Red Mountain 55K

2018 - 7:31:37

Antelope Island Fall Classic 50K

2017 - 6:14:23

Antelope Island 50 Mile

2015 - 10:10:00

Antelope Island 100 Mile

2018 - 26:53

**Personal Best

Short-Term Running Goals:

Long-Term Running Goals:

To qualify for Boston

Personal:

Married for 23 years. I have 18 year old triplets and a 15 year old. I love to sew, garden, and run!

Favorite Running Quotes:

1.

"Sooner or later the serious runner goes through a special, very personal experience that is unknown to most people.

Some call it euphoria. Others say it's a new kind of mystical experience that propels you into a elevated state of consciousness, a flash of joy.

A sense of floating as you run. This experience is unique to each of us, but when it happens, you break through a barrier that separates you from casual runners. Forever. And from that point on, there is no finish line. You run for your life. You begin to be addicted to what running gives you."

~Nike Poster

2. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

- Lao-Tzu

You’ve no doubt heard this. And you’ve probably recited it in your mind on a run or at the gym when you’re just beginning to get in shape. You have a goal in sight and this quote brings you back to the current moment.

But the problem is that many runners forget all of the steps between the first one and the goal. If your goal is to run under two hours for the half marathon then you need to be honest about all of the little steps to get to that goal.

…and what I’d rather see you do is to get the goal out of mind completely, but rather focus on the process, not the outcome. -Jay Johnson Process orientation, not outcome orientation.

You should have goals, but you should take it one step at a time. And you should be honest about the fact that you don’t know how many steps it will take to get there. ~ Vernon Gambetta

3. Human beings are made up of flesh, blood and a miracle fiber called COURAGE! ~ George Patton

4. Find the courage to be patient.

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Miles:	This week:	13.95	Month:	44.34	Year:	964.25
2014 - Minutes Lifetime Miles:						28605.00

Sat, Nov 17, 2012

Slow miles	Fast miles	Total Distance
5.00	0.00	5.00

I received a sweet invitation to run with Smooth and her gang this morning! I was so EXCITED, but realized that I needed to be home before they were going to be done. DARN IT!!!

SO I decided to text my SIL and see if she wanted to run up the canyon. She just did IVF on Thursday and none of the embryos survived. Having done IVF, I can understand her devastation. I told her we would just run...no talking so she doesn't have to put on a happy face (only if she wanted too).

Then Smoothie's gang moved up their start time. Ahhhh....I really wanted to go with them, but knew I couldn't bail on my SIL. BUT then I received a text from my SIL at 5:55am that her hubby had just gotten home from work and she couldn't leave the kids with him (he needed to sleep).

So I went from 2 running dates to nothing. I guess that is how the cookie crumbles!

It was much warmer than I had anticipated this morning and ended up taking off my jacket.

My first 2.5 miles were HARD. I was going slow and breathing like a monster. But as soon as I turned around, I was able to kick it into the next gear. I was able to maintain an 8:15-8:30 pace for 1.5 miles and then continued to pick up the pace. My last .4 home I was able to hit a 6:30 mile (talk about breathing hard!!!).

Quickly showered and headed up to SL to drive my mom around. I hope she can get a job and car soon.

No stretching or foam rolling.

Weight: 0.00

Comments

From Rachelle on Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 09:42:44 from 159.212.71.25

I am glad you made the best out of your run Toby and great job with the speedy mile. You are back!! Yay!

From Smooth on Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:02:58 from 67.2.119.62

I am so bummed that we didn't make it work! But, wow! Look at you go!!! I would've slowed you way down! The warm up miles is like that in the winter, so no worries about breathing like a monster and going slow. Your speed is back! :)

So sorry about your SIL's IVF not successful! I too hope your mom gets a job and car too!

Have a great week and Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours! :)

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