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Location:

Pleasant Grove,UT,USA

Member Since:

Aug 04, 2008

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

PRs: Fleet Feet Turkey Trot 5k- 19:46;  St. George Marathon  3:07:11(2013-- coming back from the dead)  Utah Valley Marathon 2011- 3:09:13 : D  1st place Master Division, 7th Overall; Mt. Nebo 1/2 Marathon 2011- 1:19:35- 2nd Overall,  first master. Ogden Marathon 3:14  (2010); 10K 2011 Speedy Spaniard 40:47.  I have run 33 marathons: 15 St. George (1995, 2006-2019). Utah Valley (2011, 2014), Eiluj (2011), Deseret News (2015, 3:40 pacer),  Ogden (2009, 2010), Boston (1996,2012,2014,2018)Top of Utah (1999, 2011 pacer), and SLC (2006,2015), Pocatello (3:40 pacer 2012),park city marathon 3:41:53 (2013), and Big Cottonwood pacer (2017,2018)and three Ultras-Squaw Peak 51.25 miler 2010 in 12:05:27 (9th woman) and  Antelope Island  (32 miler) in  March, 2011 (4th overall in 5:10:25) and in 2009.

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

2020 Marathon Madness

April  Salt Lake City Marathon April 18

May  Ogden Marathon  May 16

June Utah Valley Marathon  June 6 

July  Deseret News Marathon  July 24 

August  Top of Utah Aug 22 

September  Big Cottonwood  Sept 12 

October Saint George Marathon Oct 3  

November New York City Marathon  Nov 1

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

Marathon--  PR (3:06 or better)

10k--  PR (under 40:47)

5K-- PR (under 19:46)

RUN FOREVER!!!

Personal:

Married to Troy since 1997.  We have three daughters- Courtney 21,  Brooke 19, and Amber 16 and one dog-Cocoa (15). Troy works and cook lots of yummy dinners and desserts.  Courtney is back as of Aug 2019 from 18 months in England.  Now working as a CNA and going to BYU. Brooke graduated from PGHS IN MAY 2019. Attending UVU in Fall. Called to serve in the Michigan Landing LDS church mission. Leaves Jan22, 2020. Amber plays for Olympic Montreux Premier 1 soccer team.  And is a junior this Fall 2019. I  work full time (27 years in June 2019) as a registered nurse. Currently working in the special care nursery  at American Fork Hospital.  Our family loves to camp and go to Disneyland.  
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Tue, May 07, 2013
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
3.100.003.10

still cant sleep.  and sadly foot pain back full force.   yay.   cant race ogden. iron level well below normal. found an informative write up on chronic pain and chronic iron deficiency anemia.   apparently the deficiency causes brain stem deficiency......leading to pain all down the spinal nerves to the feet. rbis is a very recent article/finding and fits me to a tee. intense nerve pains down spine and chronic pains in legs. oh man i felt so awesome after 8 weeks of intavenous iron tberapy in 2010 winter...that lasted one year and my level dropped again.  i highly doubt too many people would have run through tbis cbronic pain.  hence why from time to time i cant take it anymore. i actually feel worse than 2010.  5pm- tbought hey nice day out why not try a run? not good. felt awful. it saddened me the longer i ran. is this what burn out feels like? seriously i have no drive. no adrenaline. tbis sucks. bad. my legs and mind are on two difcerent bad wavelengths. i m trying to think or rest but nothing but runninglessness. how can this be?

Night Sleep Time: 6.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.00Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Neasts on Tue, May 07, 2013 at 12:53:20 from 75.169.56.70

I'm so sorry, Julie. Not good news. I'm sure not many would have done all you've done with such low levels. Do you know if stopping running/exercising altogether increases your iron levels?

From julieesplin on Tue, May 07, 2013 at 13:24:48 from 75.169.176.220

Can you get iron injections again? Is that the type of thing you can be on long term? It really sucks to be in pain and it sucks even more to feel depressed about it. I'm thinking of you. Hang in there.

From JulieC on Tue, May 07, 2013 at 14:04:49 from 70.208.32.61

Thx girls. Neasts, sedentary people would go longer, almost undiagnosed unlesz visited the dr and had blood work done....so in essence i may feel better but problem still there...like unable exercise well. Julie, thinking of u too. I am comong to grips that low iron is the issue and not just me a weak person. Man it hurts, and now my mind isnt able to overcome it. I am trying to store up some energy for ogden...but afraid too many days off will set me back a decade or something. But i cant run anyway witb tbis stinkin plantar fascitis which i m sure is related to poor oxygenation to the heel due low iron .....crud and i had such high hopes...for ogden. Oh well more to life then running...but wish i was younger :)

From runningafterbabies on Tue, May 07, 2013 at 14:12:01 from 71.195.219.247

I'm so sorry, Julie! I hope you can get to the bottom of this. You have always been able to rebound.

From Rachelle on Wed, May 08, 2013 at 09:31:01 from 199.190.170.31

Hang in there Julie! I am thinking of you and know that you are strong and you will get through this.

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