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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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Altras Zero Drop (lt. Blue) Lifetime Miles: 366.29
Mizuno Precision 11 (orange) Lifetime Miles: 610.05
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Nike Pegasus Charc/lime Lifetime Miles: 487.77
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Nike Lunar Flyknits RED Lifetime Miles: 893.47
Nike Lunar Flyknits MULTI GREY Lifetime Miles: 369.20
Mizuno Sayanaras Lifetime Miles: 292.58
Asics Gel Lyte 33-2 (blue) Lifetime Miles: 163.09
Altra Intuition 1.5 Grey Lifetime Miles: 55.31
Altras Pink Intuition 1.5 Lifetime Miles: 79.00
Kinvara 5s Peach Lifetime Miles: 576.20
Kinvara 5s YELLOW Lifetime Miles: 346.56
Kinvara Blue/lime Lifetime Miles: 578.77
Kinvara 5s Green Lifetime Miles: 47.31
Kinvara 6 Turquoise Lifetime Miles: 531.20
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This was an EARLY STARTER for only a 16 miler.  Drove up to Nunn's Park in Provo Canyon with Kim at 445am.  Met Melanie and JulieE and began running at 5:17am.  Went on the Highway UP or rolling hills UP for 8 and turned around about 1/2 mile past the Deer Creek Dam.  The others ran longer, Kim 20, Mel 21.  I ran completely alone with my oldies music, Meat Loaf and Carly Simon, just rockin' out : D.  Left foot ailing QUITE BADLY and thought if Only I had another right leg.  It is always feeling so good.  Then my left hip started to get involved.  This is partly to blame on my run down the AF canyon yesterday.  It is pretty uneven on the sides of the road and steep in places.  So this run was supposed to be easy, and it was, actually, except for the painful foot I had to overcome with my mind.  Almost caught the threesome at mile 6.75  water stop even with a potty break.  My first mile is always so slow but it was quite uphill, so they pulled away from me right from the start.  This was not an easy course and vehicles, including eighteen wheelers were blowin' by me.  Even turning around didn't help, some climbs on the way back WITH a headwind.  Dang.  AP for 16 miles = 8:02.  Splits: 9:43, 8:02, 8:06, 8:03, 8:06, 8:08, 7:40, 8:34 (big climb passing over the dam), turn around- 7:35 (really feeling the foot now on this downhill), 8:02, 8:01, 7:41,  8:00, 7:50, 7:45, 7:19.  Done, or so I thought.  Ran back up to Bridal Veil falls 1/2 mile.  Soaked for ONLY THREE MINUTES because it was ICY cold and totally intolerable.  Got my shoes back on and ran another 1 1/2 miles on frozen legs.  Took a bit to unthaw, seriously.  Wowsers!!  Turned around just as I caught up to Josse's mom and said "hi" and it was time to turn back to see if the gals had returned.  I got back to the car and they arrived a few minutes later I could see them up on the freeway, Melanie trying to catch Kim in her last mile.  Her running 21 and Kim 20.  We soaked again in a little milder temp river right by the cars, it was a nice blocked off portion. Self-made with rocks.  Still pretty cold.  I am still hungry even after eating three bowls of cereal.  Total miles= 18.  AP for last two miles nice and freezy= 8:49.  

Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Smooth on Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 22:07:37 from 174.23.203.161

WOWSERS!!! That's an epic run especially a day after an awesome AF Canyon run! You are so strong!!!! You ran the toughtest part of the UVM course backward and forward unaided and with scary traffic! AMAZING!!!!!

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