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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: 5.53 Month: 101.03 Year: 460.12
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
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To the rec center with Troy at 9:20am.  Feel bloated and gross.  Was super nauseated ALL day at work yesterday that I skipped breakfast and lunch.  Troy had dinner ready when I got home so forced myself to eat.  Today I just was not in the mood to run.  Kind of feel depressed.  I knew if I started I could get myself feeling better so I just got on and turned up the pace quickly.  AP for 10 miles=  7:24.  First three at 2%, last 7 at 1 %.  It was RATHER BUSY at the gym and I was getting overstimulated with the sounds of basketball games and TMs, and bike wheels turning along with the most ridiculous shows on television and my SHAKING TM.  I think this rec center is slanted.  I tend to run only on the left side of the TM because it pulls me that way and my left leg bothers me after I run on it.  Can't wait to do ALL my SW outside again.  Hurry up warmer weather or just give me some clear roads.  Happy New Year since I am counting this as my first day of the year, having worked the last two days.

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I guess I'll mention it.  My left leg/hip is failing me.  I didn't run Sat or Sun and ran that 15 miler in the ARTIC on Friday and just one TM run yesterday (slanted TM that shook like a dog I tell ya) and its out of whack.  It killed walking around on it yesterday from my hip/piriformis to the inside of my knee (where I fell last Monday) to the outside of my calf to the bottom of my foot and big toe.  The nerves are all on fire.  I so don't want to start another injury-filled year and so don't want to go to the chiropracter but I think the fall plus the ridiculous TMs at PG rec are to blame.  I also need a deep tissue massage.  I guess I know what I am getting for my birthday coming up : D.  Nonetheless I trudged along on this morning OUTDOOR run on the hillsides of PG up and down rolling all around.  I was in pain and it was COLD and the roads  were still NOT clear but I just kept at it, my  left quad was soooo tight.  I just ran easy but picked it up slightly at the end.  The first mile was very slow, 9:24.  AP for 10.1 hilly miles= 8:14.  Now I am icing my  quad.  Just when things were going so well.  I am going to be optimistic though and nip this problem soon!!

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Nada.  But I guess  I could count running non-stop at work for 13.5 hours.  I would have rather been running a 50 miler somewhere but that doesn't  pay the bills  : D.  I had the worst burning pain in my head,stomach, back, and leg, all on the left.  These attacks come out of nowhere.  I mentioned it on Tuesday but it seriously got so bad I had to take 1/2 a pain pill to sleep last night.  I got to work with extreme nausea and burning pain...but as with all my other "attacks" if I keep plugging along it eventually goes away, so I try hard to ignore the pain and just do my work.  It just so happened to be incredibly busy so the action never ended and even stayed over an hour.  I got home to a phone call from Kim to join her and Jane for a 10 miler in the early am.  I was so nauseated and achy all over but OF course I agreed.   A detox run would do me good....if they let me warm up.  Details to follow....see Thursday's report.

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Met Kim and Jane at 5:50am.  THE ABSOLUTE COLDEST RUN I HAVE RUN OUTDOORS THIS SEASON!!!!!  YIKES!!   7 degrees (not including windchill and inversion). My legs were so stiff and frozen.  I had only two layers there but 5 layers on top including the huge 80s pullover.  My cheeks on my face were numb until I pounded them back to life.  I never felt like taking off my top layer in fear of instant ice over of my sweat.  At first Kim and Jane were going too fast for frozen ol' me and after almost three miles I warmed up and was able to get up with them and even push the pace a bit.  We ran the hilly route I ran Tuesday similar to the one I ran with Mel for our 20 miler.  It has some nice "recoveries" and then  back at it for another uphill.  It was tough especially in the cold.  My hair was crystalized white.  The AIR IS HEAVILY polluted.  Inversion made my mouth taste aluminum-like.  Luckily Kim had a cough drop that to me tasted like Cotton Candy.  YUM!!  It sure helped the last two miles.  We ran just over 10 miles together but I had further to go to get home so I got in 11.  AP for 11 = 7:46.  Left leg bugged me for the last 6 miles but it was so cold the pain was not as intense.  Went to the gym later with Troy-- did upper body work x 3 (flys, overheads, biceps (2 types), triceps (2types), and rows.  Finshed with a 2 minute elbow plank, and two left then right 45 seconds side planks (total 90 sec), finale-- straight arm plank x 60 seconds.  This was hard after doing so many weights.  I shook a lot even though it felt easy.  My hands on the hard floor made it too difficult to continue longer than that.  Happy Day.  I feel much better now.  

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TM run with Troy.  Easy run day.  Long run (15 miler) planned with Melanie tomorrow on the FROZEN SOLID EARTH!!!   Ran real slow at first.  2% incline until mile 8 where I put it at 1%.  First mile 9:05, last mile 6:35.    Left hip/sciatica a REAL BUGGER right now.  Guess its time to fork over the mula I don't for an adjustment today.  Blah!!  Felt really strong on the last mile.  AP for 8 = 7:57.  Wore my new shoes, mizuno  precisions.  The current pair are worn thin on the left inside heel.  Hmmmm some problem with that left foot strike.  It drags apparently.  I just don't have time for a bunionectomy on that foot.  My right foot was done in 1996 because it was worse and  I land perfectly on the right and usually NEVER have a problem with that side.  My big toe on the left curves outward into my other toes and makes my push off crooked.  By the time I have time I will be 80 years old-- too old for surgery.  

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18 miles with Melanie.  13 miles out in the frozen tundra, fog, pollution, windchill around Thanksgiving Point.  AP here 7:21.  First mile 8:09, last mile 6:58.  Thighs frozen, face burning.  Then brief stop at Mel's house and an impromptu run (Mel needed to drop something off at the rec center she works at) to the rec center.  Thawed out in 1 minute in my car that I felt like I had jumped in a pool of water when we started back out in the cold again.  1.75 miles to rec center. We were so melting now so we ran on the TMs (impromptu again) for 2 miles at 7:30 AP.  OH so LOVE those TMs.  No shaking.  Felt like I was moon walking. We felt like we could keep going but must be on our way outdoors.  Frozen sweat run back to Mel's house in a swift pace.  Last mile 7:10.   Total AP for 18 miles=  7:24!!!!  YIPPEE!!  Now its time for my 8 year old's baptism!!! All in a days work  : D.  Thanks Melanie for getting me to work hard.  Thanks for the icicle run and the warm TM!!!

PM-- 7 hours later and I feel like I didn't even run yet today.  Leg pain all gone.  It acted up quite a bit during the run and now nothing.  Got adjusted last night at 6pm.  He said my left hip, knee and ankle were all out.  I heard them "pop" back into place.  It still hurt all last night.  I guess the nerve needed some time to realize it wasn't "pinched" anymore. 

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