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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
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
10.350.0010.35

"Running in a Winter Wonder Land (sing with me)... in this weather you could be considered inSane, but pretend that you don't give a darn.  We'll be having lots of fun with Mrs. SnowRunner Woman.  You can too,  if you're in Town.  Later on we will perspire as we take a warm shower"....I could go on, I hope anyone reading this caught on to singing it to Winter Wonderland.  Okay got out for a long run in this stuff.  It was fun.  Tried to own the roads to keep safe moving from one side to the other on the busy streets to give me a wide shoulder.  Lot of "your Insane" stares but like the song above I didn't give a darn.  Ran 10.35 miles (probably longer with all the swerving from side to side)  in 1:28:35 with  terrain deep to the shins at one point for three minutes around the hidden Highland pond off of West Park Rd from Alpine highway or Lone Peak High School if you are on that side.  Amazing when I got through the unplowed part of the parkway the entire park was plowed to the pond and around... I was thankful but come on?  The traffic there is miniscule yet our public streets to our homes remain Unplowed.  Could someone enlighten me here? 

10.35mi.  (1:28:35)  Avg pace 8:33. 

Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Marion on Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 15:16:56

I hope no plow drivers or city planners are on this blog, but they are MORONS!!!

Great run... great adventure. I love being considered insane by the general population! We actually ROCK!! We are AWESOME and they all wish they were us! Have you seen Wallie (sp?) Those people are our future and we are fighting to keep it from coming true.

I love your song! I sang along with you. good times :) It's 40 degrees right now and I am headed out for my run. Happy day to you!!

From JulieC on Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 20:12:53

Today turned out to be entirely wonderful weather. Love your analogy. Many times at work or church I get comments from people (from surrounding towns) like "I saw you running here or there in such and such situation". I tell them to join me and of course I get a "no way I don't run outside". Okay then....I say to myself...you don't know what you are missing.... and they truly don't want to know. You most likely had an awesome run!! About to read your blog.

From allie on Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 20:27:54

i was at my mom's yesterday in highland and it really is ridiculous. her road probably hasn't been plowed once since the first snowfall. i drive a jeep and i got stuck half-way down the street. i had to hit it into 4-wheel drive just to back out. ridiculous. you should get a prize for running down there.

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