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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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Sat, Jan 08, 2011
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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. 

Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
Comments
From melanieb on Sat, Jan 08, 2011 at 14:03:51 from 75.169.207.131

Great run! Glad you came over! Good Luck at the Baptism.

From RAD on Sat, Jan 08, 2011 at 18:04:09 from 67.172.229.125

Very nice conglomerate run- a little of everything. A wonderful pace to boot as well! I'm impressed that you got out and running in this muck.

From seeaprilrun on Sat, Jan 08, 2011 at 19:43:33 from 72.205.226.14

Sweet pace! Especially in all that cold!

From Toby on Sat, Jan 08, 2011 at 23:05:02 from 66.133.97.196

That is a lot of running! Fast running too!

From allie on Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 13:14:24 from 174.23.238.75

very nice running, and great pace! you and melanie are brave to battle that air.

so glad to hear your leg pain has dissipated.

From JulieC on Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 16:48:23 from 67.41.190.118

conversation went something like...."hope you aren't cursing me for being out here".... "errrr of course not Melanie"...and then since I couldn't see her in the fog I thought I better stay up with her : D. I was like "why aren't there any lights on at the elementary school? like that's not safe!" and then suddenly as we were only 50 feet from the school some sort of lighting apppeared through the thicket. I guess the school did have lights on. It was generally eerie out and you could actually see the fog rolling by us and sticking to our eyelashes.

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