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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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Kinvara 6 Turquoise Lifetime Miles: 531.20
Tue, Mar 15, 2011
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14.000.0014.00

REally, 14 miles today?  NOOOOOO!!!  I still haven't recovered from the lack of sleep and three shifts in a row and SKIING yesterday for 7 hours in SNOWFALL.  The skiing was spectacular but the snowfall was sometimes a bit much.  Hey it's March!!  But we had a wicked fun day, the kids and hubby and I.  I overdid of course flying through the wooded made-up trails with my kids.  They love it.  I love it.   But as the day wore on so did my thighs.  They were tired and beat.  I was done.  Skiing take A LOT out of you.  Today, I ran in my trail shoes.  Third run in them.  This time I actually ran on a trail with them.  Only the canal though.  No major toughie but I was tired of the clay soil and hills.  The first 5-7 miles were great and then I could tell I had been working my legs TOO MUCH and was like "be done already", but I was running an out and back course so no such luck and I just pushed through the fatigue.  The last mile I was so fed up with myself and the tempo of my songs (they were all TOO slow).  I flipped thru the songs sighing with every song that was next finding no umph to get me home any quicker.  Then with one final flip I got to my favorite UPBEAT song and was like totally adrenalinized.  I turned the volume way up and I ran a 6:18 pace back home for the last .3 miles.  Now I am dead to the world and need a break.  But no reprieve.  I work the next two days.  Going easy those two days.  Recovery runs x 2 in a row for 5 miles each.  Oh yah, AP today for 14 (8.6 miles on trail)=  8:12.

Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Smooth on Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 17:53:33 from 67.2.70.168

The skiing with the fam puts a smile on my face!

You crazy fun runner-nurse-mom-wife, you!

From MCKENZIE on Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 21:01:33 from 75.169.116.197

So whats your favorite up-beat song? Thanks for the ski reports, it convinces me to go! Friday was soooo fun. My kids loved it. We are going to Sundance on Friday *Twilight Skiing*....Did you sign up for the Hurricane Half?

From JulieC on Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 22:38:04 from 71.35.251.6

Hi McKenzie. I think the name of the song is "Tonight's the Night" ...let's live it up,...etc...It's the tune that I like not really the words. Kim put it on my ipod and I just happen to hear it and it worked for me. I am not running the Hurricane Half. I am running Antelope Island in a week for 32 miles.

From JulieC on Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 22:41:10 from 71.35.251.6

Sundances' snow wasn't the greatest but BRIGHTON WAS AWESOME. However the kids quite enjoyed the night skiing there. We went to Sundance just over a week ago from 1230 to 830pm. My husband was happy with Sundance since there aren't as many trails through the woods and he isn't by himself as much. We love the trails. There is one really fun one at Sundance. The snow at higher elevation was the difference. We are going to Sundance next week. We have 20 dollar vouchers from the BYU basketball game. : D.

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