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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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9:38, 9:13, 9:09, 8:53, 8:42, 8:26, 8:23, 8:44, 8:26

This 3 week training cycle has not been as great as most of my others (and I'm on week 3 of 3...next week will be a rest week). I've stuck with my 40 miles/week and don't have plans to increase it. I've felt very creaky and just off. My left foot has been bugging. I've done a lot of scraping and ice. I think the tendons are just stressed. At least I hope so.

This morning was just alright. I felt like my form was off. Form has always been a struggle for me. It is done and over. I was WAY over dressed this morning.

I did use my turkey coupon for my win on Saturday...it was worth $12.44. Sweet!

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I decided to run on the home TM ....the wind just didn't sounds appealing! Easy miles. My SIL is always reading a book on her iPad while she runs, so I decided to give it a try this morning. It definitely made the time go by faster, but I had to hold onto the side while I scrolled through the pages. It took some coordination :)

3x

10/side step ups on bench with weight

15 hamstring curls with ball

B6

60/60/60 plank

Pikes with ball-I'm not very good at these, but they did seem to help stretch out the tops of my feet

20 dips

Quick stretch

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30 min hard push on spin bike. It is much easier to read my iPad on the bike than on the TM!

3x

10 ball squats

10 lunges with back foot on bench

10 single leg hamstring lift

LLL-both

1x

50 crunches

15 push ups

60/60/60 plank

1 min bridge

 

1 mile run

 

After my workout on Tuesday morning, I sat down to read with my daughter.  We read for a long time.  When I stood up, I couldn't put any weight onto my foot.  Honestly, it felt like it was broken.  It was a bit achy on Tuesday's run, but nothing crazy.  

I couldn't put pressure on it all day.  This totally stressed me out.  I've been working so hard since May to be slow and smart with my training.  I called my PT was able to get in on Tuesday afternoon.  He said that I had some serious tendonitis in my Peroneal Brevis.  It felt a smidge better after he worked on it.  He told me to modify my workouts by adding more cross training.

 

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20 minutes on the spin bike

4 miles on the home TM

TT:37:00

AP:  9:15

 

My foot was a bit achy when I first got on the TM, but it did feel better after awhile.  I went to the PT again this morning.  Though it doesn't feel like it is broken, it is still very sore.  I know that if I don't chill for awhile this could turn into a tear or a SF.  I'm going back to the PT on Saturday morning and he's going to watch me do my running workout and film me again.  

It is only December and I still have time.

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Mental health day

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I went to my PT again this morning. He had me do 20 minutes hard on the bike as a warm up. Then I did 6 miles on the TM. I had to stop after each mile and walk 1 minute. He filmed me running durning the last mile while I was tired. He said my cadence, trunk rotation and arm placement were good, but my hip internal hip rotators were weak. The weak hips were bringing my foot/ankle down funny. He showed me an exercise to help strengthen it. We'll see. But my foot did feel a lot better on this run.

We took our kids up to the Utah Food Bank today. Then we ate lunch at Freebirds. Yummy! This chain was down in Texas and we used to go there all the time.

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