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Location:

Rantoul,IL,

Member Since:

May 12, 2008

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Marathon Finish

Running Accomplishments:

1/2 marathon  1:43:09--Illinois Marathon, April 2013

10K: 46:50--Safe Kids Run in Crystal Lake Park, April 2010

5K: 22:07--Jingle Bell Run, December 2009

Short-Term Running Goals:

Do another marathon AFTER GOOD TRAINING

 

1/2 marathon in 1:41 or under

 

Break Burt's 5K PR by 1 second

 

10K in 46:00 or under

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

Keep encouraging my family in their development of a healthy lifestyle

 

God willing, I will run until the end.

Personal:

I run with God. I use my running time to contemplate, to pray and to listen for His call. I'm married to a non-runner, but a supportive one, and we have four children.
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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Iso Lifetime Miles: 133.20
Sun, Dec 07, 2008
Race: Jingle Bell Run (3.1 Miles) 00:24:16, Place in age division: 3
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
1.003.104.10

I ran with a couple kids from my team.  We started off slow and ran I would say tempo for the first 2 miles.  I forgot my watch in the car, so I don't know our splits.  Then roughly around the 2 mile mark, Gregg Rose came by with his heavy breathing.  At first I didn't know it was him, but as soon as he passed me, I knew there was no way that I was going to let him blow by me.  He told us afterward that he was annoyed that we were talking during our race so he thought he'd spur us on.  I'm glad he did because we weren't going hard.  The last mile, though, we were.

I ended up only 26 seconds slower than last month with a lot less effort.  Even though I was disappointed at myself for not really racing, I was still okay with the fact that I took 3rd in my age division (and another 10 seconds and I would have taken first in my division--I thought there was no way I'd even be close to a medal.  But hindsight is 20/20).

BTW, it was about 20 degrees. 

Asics Miles: 4.10
Comments
From Becca on Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 22:13:11

Brr! That must have been one cold run! Where was the Jingle Bell Run? I just folded a couple of my Jingle Bell Run t-shirts...from a race in Kenosha, WI.

From Tracy on Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 22:17:58

I'm in Champaign. The funny thing about this race is that, even though it's always the first weekend of December, the weather changes so greatly. Last year it was in the 50s.

From Tracy on Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 22:23:48

Sorry. I should have specified Champaign, IL.

From Carolyn in Colorado on Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 12:28:48

Champaign, IL is one of my favorite places.

Great job getting 3rd in your age division without really trying. I hope I can do that some day when I grow up.

Was it windy? The windy can get really nasty in Champaign, as I recall. I remember wind chills of -40 as being fairly common there.

From Tracy on Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 16:11:51

I don't know if it's just my age division just not being that competetive in this area? I don't feel like I deserved a medal for that race.

That's what I mean on my profile about being noncompetetive. Some days I feel like I want to be fast and then other days I'm just glad to be out running. Yesterday was one of those days where I was just glad not to be on a treadmill and to be conversing during the run.

It was pretty windy, but I didn't look at the wind chill.

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