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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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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 13.00 Year: 506.12
Brooks Pureflow Lifetime Miles: 309.19
Altras Zero Drop (lt. Blue) Lifetime Miles: 366.29
Mizuno Precision 11 (orange) Lifetime Miles: 610.05
Saucony Mirage 2 Grey Lifetime Miles: 223.70
Nike Pegasus Charc/lime Lifetime Miles: 487.77
Nike Pegasus Grey/blue Lifetime Miles: 428.92
Mizuno Precision Pink Lifetime Miles: 479.56
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
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
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check out the sleeping hours.  MASSIVE INSOMNIA.  I finally decided to fill my ambien prescription from the summer.  Didn't work the other two times I tried over the years. Wishful thinking.  I was awake and coherent to my 10 year old daughter 1.5 hours after I took it.  I told Amber I was taking it and she was to take "notes" if I did anything weird.  We were in my bed watching mindless tv.  Drifted off after 10 woke at 0100.  Took another half a pill (total one 10 mg) and slept only an hour.  Laid in bed and decided to text some running friends to see if they would run with me.  I wasted time to 7:20 wondering if I should run on NO good quality sleep in over a week.   I can't believe this. Thought hormone replacement would help me sleep bettter but it is having opposite effect.  Making me very HIGH strong and weirded out.  Have a thirteen year old daughter's party to watch over til 11pm but may just last til 9pm and let my hubby take over as I hopefully crash tonight for like 16 hours please!!! Anyway did just go out and run at 7:20am and ran up 1100 North in PG to Canal trail (murdock) and ran North. A guy passed me going quickly so woke me up and I decided to try and hang with him...by that decision he was already 20 seconds ahead.  He managed to stay that way for the three miles I trailed him.  Didn't have garmin but did have stop watch.  It was probably about 6:50 pace for three miles then I was like HELLO I need to just run easy which I think was about 7:40ish pace.  I also picked it up for my last mile and since I had my stopwatch and know where the mile to go to my house point is I ran it in 6:38.  AP for run 7:33 (10.28 miles per course tool).   Then it was on to Brooke's last tournament game. They won 5-1.  They won all but onebeing a tie in their season games. They finished their Division 2 season in 1st!! and move on to Division 1 automatically.  : D.  Troy (my husband) is the coach.   Amber's Celtic team has had a rough go.  They lost their last game.  But Amber played hard.  It is fun to watch them play soccer D:  BUT it drains me of all remaining, if any adrenaline, because I am super competitive in game sports.  Not so much in running except against myself...hence why I like running-- ME against the clock,, if I happen to pass people along the way  that is fine..but it is not my goal.  I  like to win master's but it is usually a win because the speedier gals didn't show up.    Just want the marathon PR.  Subthree someday.

Night Sleep Time: 4.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 4.00Weight: 0.00
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