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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:	39.47	Year:	532.59
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

Fri, Oct 29, 2010

Slow miles	Fast miles	Total Distance
6.00	0.00	6.00

6 easy at 8:41 pace. Left my house at 535am. Couldn't sleep after 4am and felt some energy so got up. A little sore from core yesterday and upper arms from pushups but the run helped to unstiffen myself. This isn't a big race tomorrow seeings how it is unofficial and I am highly unmotivated when its not official so I am trying for MP not half pace. Anyway got to get a future schedule for me to adhere to race wise in order to reach some goals before I get too old : D. Tentative goals: a 5k to do a check on speed or lack there of in November, Painter's half (Jan.), Antelope Island 50K or Riverton 1/2 in March (if they fall on different Sats I will do both if work allows but I am leaning more towards Antelope), Provo 1/2 (April), Thanksgiving point 1/2 (May), Ogden marathon (May)--not racing it just a nice EASY long run, I am coaching my neighbor to run her first marathon, her goal is 5 hours, Utah Valley Marathon (June), 2 10ks in July, Park City Half /Hobble Creek(Aug), TOU half (Sept), SGM (Oct). Post-script: My Dr's office called. My NNP, after further research on my low ferritin level (mine is 5 and performance decreases after going below 25 according to Advanced Marathoning) really feels I need to get Intravenous Iron as levels this low don't usually correct itself thru oral pills. I have poor absorption for some reason or another. Basically my body does not like iron. I avoided it like the plague when I was pregnant and rarely eat red meat (now it is on the menu). So perhaps I will feel a Zip to my Zap sooner than I thought. I still have these intense bouts of fatigue, and struggle more to breath then I used to at an increased pace. I just thought I was aging too quickly, being 41 and all and running with my 30-something friends : D. I am glad my NNP is on the ball. I was trying to ignore it away, taking my floradix (iron) randomly and trying to eat more red meat here and there.

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

Comments

From Smooth on Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 15:39:17 from 63.228.197.20

That looks like a nice racing schedule! WOW, your iron is low! Can't believe you ran that fast and worked that hard! Seriously nurses make the worst patients. Be a good girl and take steps to bring your ferritin up.

Have fun and GOOD LUCK on your Halloween Half tomorrow. I won't be surprised you get *motivated* and rock it!!!

From JulieC on Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 16:18:41 from 67.41.188.153

Smooth, no worries--I am doing IV therapy starting Wednesday!! It will be weekly for a month. Not looking forward to the needle stick however. Wish it was today so I could test my strength tomorrow with more iron on board but the nurse said it will take about two doses before I noticed a big difference.

From seeaprilrun on Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 21:21:18 from 68.103.249.204

Well, woman, get this done and get to roaring! You've got some races and masters titles to go get. I am so glad that you are getting some definitive treatment and are going to be feeling better soon! Will this have to be done at regular intervals since you are having absorption problems?

From JulieC on Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 22:17:08 from 71.35.248.74

April, she will check my levels after 4 treatments and regularly check it. Continuous treatments may be necessary if I don't keep the level up. My girlfriend from work had the therapy (she has celiac disease) and said she felt so much better after her treatments. I am sort of looking forward to it.

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