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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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Race: St. George Marathon 2010 (26.27 Miles) 03:18:08, Place overall: 61, Place in age division: 9
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
16.0010.2726.27

Was the most relaxed for any marathon or race I have ever run.  No nerve.  I felt calm.  Calm because it was not going to be a PR unless I had some breakthru so if  I did then all the better.  I even slept four hours.  After 2am I was up for good.  So....I decided to take the "EARLY BIRD" bus and see if its worth it .  The marathon gives out prizes randomly to anyone who is on a bus from 4am to 430am. I didn't win anything.  But  I must admit it was kind of cool being on the first bus to the top and the music pumping my blood on the bus-- our driver played some good 80s music.  Then to get off at the top and the air mild, warm even.  No need for the fires or my sweatshirt.  It was basically not a good sign but nice since I was up there early.  I sat outside the Elite corral having met a first timer and feeling young again as she was the same age I was on my first.  It was nice chatting.  Still no nervousness, just anticipation.  The music at the starting line was pumping me up.  I was ready to go and I still had two hours and fifteen minutes.  I tried laying down then I made my way to the Elite area and saw my Ragnar Teammates.  Never saw Mel and Kim until the finish.  We did our good luck hugs the night before.  So I stood at the back of the Elite start when the gun went off.  My goal was to feel good the entire time.  No nagging hamstring/back pain, limping hip problem.  I wanted to feel like running was a part of me again.    I went out by feel.   I pretty much ran a 22 mile training run then coasted slowly to the finish.  In fact I am the least sore of any marathon I have run minus the same old same old with my back and nerve pains to my butt and up my spine.  I was hoping to feel really strong at mile 15 and "fly" the rest of the way down.  But that's a story you are about to hear.  It became a mental game--- pain, no pain, pain , no pain......and I gave in.  I couldn't make my body be in that same pain as that dreaded 20 miler with Melanie.  Just as I was about to feel each vertebrae burn with pain I backed off.  I wasn't stiff and lactic or hitting a wall I was at my back pain threshold and striding quicker would surely rip my back and hips apart.  Wimpy me.  I plan on some hypnosis to overcome this fear  : D.    It all started on that last 7 miles of the Squaw Peak 50 miler....7 EXTREMELY PAINFUL MILES.  Every single step.  And so now.....HOW TO OVERCOME?  running a marathon is painful....I think I am getting to where I can train myself to a point but if the ENTIRE training isn't there I am not going to push beyond the point to where there is NO glycogen and muscle fatigue is too intense and I am sore for days.  I didn't do the work and I most certainly plan on doing it next year if all falls together right.  It makes sense to run smart.  I feel soo much better this year.  I can walk well.  I can bend over.  I can clean.  My back and spine hurt like crazy but that's really all.  Here are my splits:  I ran a huge POSITIVE split.  Too funny and pathetic.  Seriously I think I had my breaks on on the second half.  I am afraid to run fast downhill.  So bizarre.  But again MENTAL!!!  

Miles 1-13--- Felt so easy so wonderful so like really?  will I easily do the second half and come ahead without working hard?  I am just a fool.  7:40, 7:38, 7:07, 6:54, 7:03, 6:56, 6:58, 8:01 (Veyo, purposely slowed it down), 7:37, 7:39, 7:49, those all were with the uphill grade, mile 13--7:13.  Half way 1:37.  Pelvis and nerves in hamstrings beginning to burn.  Back beginning to ache.  Apparently my body is refusing another half. 

14-26.2:  Just keep running.  I just can't bring myself to pick it up in gear.  I thought at mile 15 (aide stations are every odd number miles) I would take some Ben Gay and put some on my hamstrings.  Well I grabbed  the tube from the gal and took a huge wad and rubbed my hands together and placed them on my lower back.  Within a minute I realized what a HUGE mistake this was.  STOP the marathon.  I have to stop.  I am burning up.  Stupid Ben Gay is burning my back.  My back is on fire.  Jalepenos to the spine!!  A million bandaids being ripped off at once.  Holy FREAKIN' MOLY how am I supposed to concentrate?  Every runner that went by me then got an ear full of my experience.  This stuff was penetrating my spinal cord.  Is this a legal med?  Geez.  I haven't used it in years but its powerful stuff.  It did the opposite of helping me.  I even picked up someones wet sock from the middle of the road and tried to wipe as much of it off as possible.  The intense buring lasted for over two miles.  NEVER AGAIN.  Thankfully this wasn't some major PR day for me.  That stuff should be banned.  My mom said Ben Gay shouldn't be applied when you are sweating because your pores are wide open.  LOVELY.  Where were you mom at mile 15?  JK.  Anyway....I pulled through that disaster.  Kept telling myself to hang on til mile 21 then just scale it down to 8s to the finish.  And those were the words my mind and body so muchly liked.  I high-fived little kids, I slowly ran thru sprinklers but I did sprint .27 miles to the finish.  Yup, all my weaving gave me an extra .07miles.  Dang then my time would have been a 3:17.    Last half splits, read em' and weep:  7:25, 7:05, 7:06, 7:19, 7:31, 7:58 (long uphill stretch), 7:43 (downhill and  I can't move my legs since they are attached to my back), 7:26, 7:56, 8:03, 8:01, 8:16, 8:03 and 7:16 for .27  the road I think was actually stretching.  Stood in the sprayer for a good 5 minutes.   High fived my family and hung around the runner crowd for a bit. Swam with my kids and Mel and Kim families at their condo.  Oh did I mention it was hot?  Yes, it was the hottest SGM on record.  Maybe that's why  I tanked?  I am not a good heat runner.  Myself and many other runners that ran today.  I did meet some bloggers that had exceptional races despite the heat!!!  Way to go!!! SERIOUSLY and you KNOW WHO YOU ARE!!! 

 


Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
Comments
From RivertonPaul on Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 17:09:37 from 67.42.27.114

Still, a great run.

From Smooth on Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 19:27:36 from 67.41.235.104

Man O man, you're WAY TOO TOUGH! Great run and respectable time! Everytime I smelled that Ben Gay stuff on the course I thought about you! :) Seriously!

From JulieC on Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 19:33:17 from 70.56.111.1

so basically you were smart and didn't put any on? you'd think cause of my allergies I would have been smart. I washed my clothes and hat and they still smell of BEN GAY!!! total brain breakdown in the heat I guess.

From JulieC on Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 19:38:48 from 70.56.111.1

also I think my race report would have been extremely boring if I didn't add Ben to it. I got no blisters. barely talked to anyone. was in my own world. nearly was plowed over once by another guy runner thinking he needed the water first---he actually elbowed me out of the way, kind of like a side tackle/shove. other than that I had no excitement. I just had to create my own.

From Kelli on Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 20:11:44 from 71.219.65.246

Well, it wasn't me (not that the race was not good, BUT it sure felt awful!!!)

I can not believe how tough you are, seriously! You just keep going like the energizer bunny, you never quit! I so hope all of this pain stuff gets figured out and GONE very soon!

I wonder how I missed you at the start. We went to the very back of the elite corral as well, I bet we were standing right by each other and did not even know it!

Hey, will you send some of your "not soreness" my way pleas? I can hardly walk.

From seeaprilrun on Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 20:55:37 from 68.103.248.145

OH Julie! Congrats on a gritty race as always--you are tough as nails. But really, I am laughing! I just have this mental image of you running while desperately wiping off Ben Gay with a nasty ol sock. LOL! For not being in primo condition you can sure run a fast marathon!

From JulieC on Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 22:06:23 from 70.56.111.1

April- so weird that a sock was conveniently placed down the road from my folly, at mile 15.5 no less!! everyone had already removed them (as arm warmers)the first three miles!!! I was sure lucky to spot it there before me!! : D I can't wait for your awesomeness next Saturday!!! You will for sure PR. Do not take in anything you never did while training and you will run the race of your life cause you are ready girl!!!

From runningafterbabies on Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 10:11:25 from 67.161.249.168

Julie that was a very respectable time given the Ben-Gay/heat barriers placed in your way. I am so proud of you for pushing through and finishing strong. I'm sorry your legs are swollen. Maybe you should try some icy-hot?!

From RAD on Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 16:08:46 from 67.172.229.125

Julie, what an amazing race! Running smart is SO much more important than hitting a certain time. I'm impressed at your will to go on in such pain, I honestly think I probably would've just walked it on in!

The Ben-Gay nightmare is crazy! I thought a few times about stopping and rubbing down my outer quads that were killing, but now I am SO glad I didn't!! It was hot and a crazy SGM, but you with-stood it all and finished in a VERY respectable time in my book!! NICE work!

From allie on Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 19:38:41 from 174.19.51.35

way to go, julie. you ran well and finished strong in very tough conditions! i am amazed by the things you endure while running and yet you always continue on and find a way to get through it. great job.

From Teena Marie on Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 16:12:45 from 174.23.122.157

Man ... how do you do it?

Anytime you mention nerve pain throughout the buttocks and spine, well ... I cringe. I hope the hypnosis works for you. Dang you are tough!!!

Nice job, once again! :)

From Burt on Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 22:14:09 from 68.225.214.248

Nice report Julie. JulieC. I laughed and threw up about the Ben Gay wiping.

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