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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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Slept 8 hours last night!!  Ate an awesome breakfast made by Troy's uncle in Manti.  Drove home with the girls at 1000am with grandma.  Troy left earlier for a church meeting.  Happy Father's Day to him!!  At least I got the girls packed and unpacked and showered and ready for church on time at 1pm!!  

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4 @ 8:43 AP.  Back/hamstrings bugging me A LOT!!  Physical therapist/ex BYU track runner said I don't engage my glutes when I run, meaning I don't pull thru with my kick off.  Basically I am wasting energy or I do this cause my hamstrings are so tight.  I am supposed to do bounding  running now before and  after every run to practice running like an antelope.  He showed me.  He sure was very smooth.  Oh and I looked AWFUL on the treadmill.  When we went outside he said I was like a whole different runner!!!!  See I knew I hated the TM.  He said some people tense up on the TM and then under stride.  I was going slower on the TM then I usually get up to (6.7) so  that might have changed my gait a bit.   Funny, nonetheless.  I have a lot of work to do.  He gave me hamstring exercises to do and core.  I also have signs of a tethered cord but he said he would work with me with physio before jumping into thinking surgery is necessary to release it.  My hamstrings are extremely tight he said.  I can only lift my legs 40 degrees and should at least be able to do 60 degrees.  My nerve pain is through both legs and hips equally.  My lower back is always in pain now.  A friend on my Ragnar Relay Team gave me a book on Healing Your Back Pain by Dr. Sarno.   He basically says that back pain is due to Tension Myosotis Syndrome, mainly brought on by stress/repressed anger/anxiety.  I haven't gotten to the place in the book that tells me how to "wish" it a way.  I agree to a point but I would rather not have the pain even if I am repressing stuff so I could run like I like to already.  I don't think that I am repressing my real desire to want to run.  Blah, Blah.  

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10 @ 8:09.  Walked two miles.  Back in trouble.  Hamstrings not being nice.  Neck out of wack from post-chiropractic care at Ragnar then 7 Peaks. Went to MY chiropracter.  Ahhh.  Much better but tendons and nerves still ticked off.  Back Book not helping.  Not sure I believe that every thing is in my head.  That's like saying I cut myself--deeply-- and don't need stitches.  He (the Author) is a little over the top.  Its like he puts all people in one category, overweight, poor eaters, exercisers and non exercisers and they are all repressing their emotional pain through their back and if we can just simply realize that voila back pain resolved.  I agree with some of his points but medically AND scientifically it doesn't add up.   BTW now I am trying to repress the fact that my new Hoover Windtunnel-- lowest model, just at two holes in my carpet.  The roller on the bottom doesn't stop rolling when you use hose part of the vaccum.  I had noticed this when I started using the vacuum so I would try to keep it on the highest level (distance the rollers can be from the carpet where it says "carpet") and move my vacuum from time to time.  But this time I was too late.  It ate right through my carpet from overheating and the continuous rolling in the upright position.  Errrrr!!!!!  I am waiting for customer service to call back on Monday.  Just irritating trying to get things done before work and matters were made worse.  It was bound to happen sooner or later. It's only about a month old.  Better when I was using it then one of my kids.  No one to blame but self AND vacuum.  My old vacuum shuts off the roller when I use the hose.  I think most vacuums do.  Geez!!!  

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