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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

Mon, Jun 20, 2011

Slow miles	Fast miles	Total Distance
7.00	6.00	13.00

13 miler-- up to the mouth of the canyon from my house then down on the trail behind Lone Peak High School and around/through Art Dye Park. Slow and steady at first. Starting to feel that twitch in my calf again. I think it is due to my new running shoes, same model/year as I had but the inside of the right heel feels like it is raised a bit more in the shoe. Since I am noticing it every time I think it is a flaw in the making of the shoe. I wore my older ones in the marathon and had ABSOLUTELY NO calf pain during or the whole week after the race. ODD. AP for 13 miles 7:46. Time 1:41:06. It is always amazing to me to see that my EASY but hilly training runs are at the same pace as my LONG ago (1995) RACE PACE was for a downhill half marathon. Just sayin'. I think I ran my first Provo Half Marathon in 1:43 in 1995 and then ran Hobble Creek two weeks later in 1:41. An older friend/Dr. I worked with ran a 1:39 and I thought she was so amazingly fast. The body can be trained to do what the mind tells it to. So SUB THREE is MY GOAL. Seriously I was watching Joan Benoit Samuelson (my running heroine) last night on You Tube finish the first Women's Olympic Marathon and RE-INSPIRED myself. In 1984 (the race she won) I was 14 and very depressed/down about my life and I just turned on the TV in time to see her finish. She was/is so inspiring. I wasn't even much into running then, just for sports (field hockey, ski team, track--YUCK), but something flamed inside me from watching her and in my mind I had this thought that I wanted to be a runner.....

1 min front plank, 45 seconds side, left and right.

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

Comments

From seeaprilrun on Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 22:08:32 from 174.70.177.86

Joan is my hero!!! Have you seen the youtube video titled "The first gold" when she wins the Olympics? Is that the one you saw? I love that video! You are right...set your mind to it and it can be done. I can't wait to meet you in Saint George sister!

From JulieC on Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 00:10:36 from 71.35.249.68

Yes that is the one April. And don't you love how focused she was in like a trance? and she looked effortless the WHOLE time and still continued running after she was done, not at all "run down". Just simply incredible. May 7th (and my 22miler in St.George in April) of this year was as close to that feeling I can get....I never felt so amazing running (my) fast and feeling I could keep going. How do I capture that again? well that is the key, I just don't know what I was doing to feel like that at that moment, was it something I ate? was it the right concoction of sleep, hormones, etc.... I just don't know. I just can't feel like I did before UVM this year at SG. That was a nightmare, luckily pulling thru it okay. here I am running three MLR runs in a row. Should I be? I don't know. I just love to run. I am not always wise but I am trying to be better at listening to my body....WISH YOU WERE HERE TO TRAIN WITH :D.

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