| 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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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 6.10 | 3.00 | 9.10 |
| READ ON to get to the BEST PART : D. Okay....so not having run any speedwork since before the SGM, I have been feeling down and depressed about my fitness. Actually just down and depressed. Taking a supplement with DHEA, since I am very low in it. Started to take it last night, a very low dose. I am very leary of taking any medications but this one seems just as important as iron. Anyway, moving forward....I got out of bed already having premeditated the possibility of running a three mile "time trial" on the track. Too dark to run down the Provo Canyon on the marked path. Not sure how I was going to feel with my foot in repair but I just went out and warmed up and ran to the track, just going through the motions to see if I could "force" myself to do speedwork FINALLY. I ran 4.16 miles warmup @ 8:34 pace. I ran the last of the warmup doing two laps around the track, clockwise then counter clockwise to check wind resistance. On my warmup I could feel the wind blowing at me to the south from the north. I knew that on the track, that lies north to south, I could face some problems. If I had my choice I would have run clockwise but I bumped into a guy in the dark doing lap repeats counter clockwise (the usual way people run on a track). Because of the building there wasn't much tailwind when running south but when you ran north there was a good headwind for the long stretch but vanished at the turn. Oh well. I had no idea how well I would run anyway, so I didn't look at my watch but pressed lap button every 1/4 mile. Just before I started, I realized that I knew the gentleman running his laps. He is a Stake leader in my stake and is in his fifties. He quickly said before he started on one of his laps (he knows I am a "fast" runner) that I would "chick" him. Before I could tell him how out of shape I was, he was off. It was still quite dark but I found this to be good because I felt like I was dreaming about my run, not actually running. All the laps felt REALLY controlled. Only the forth lap felt taxed as Brother Hobson decided to jump in with me and test himself I guess. It kind of panicked me and my breathing went askew for a minute there but I managed my second fastest lap there. I really have track anxiety and race anxiety. I don't like to be challenged unless it my 80 year old grandma!! I think Bro. Hobson wondered when the heck I was ending my speedwork as I continued on for 12 laps. He was gone by the time I finished. The cooldown was awesome. I felt so light and my lungs were wide open feeling so refreshed. I could have kept going in the cooldown but had to get back to my daughter for school. Got back at 7:27am. Ran 1.94 mile cooldown in 8:09 AP back to my house through all the construction once more. Although my PF is slightly trying to show its ugly face I have found that wearing support shoes all day has helped tons along with icing and stretching. I threw out my shoes that contributed to my problem. They were my work shoes that I have had for four years-- rubber and no traction and no support. Oh yah here are my splits (in the dark, no peeking EVER)-- 1:34, 1:36, 1:38, 1:35, 1:40, 1:41, 1:38, 1:40, 1:40, 1:40, 1:40, 1:38 which equals= 19:44 for the time trial. I got to learn to HUG the edge as my garmin had the distance at 3.08!!!!! Almost a 5K. Geez. So if I were in a race it is safe to say that I would have been under 20 minutes!! Also the fact that this did NOT feel all out is encouraging. Very controlled. I really thought my time was over 20 minutes. So happy with the results. It appears I haven't lost too much fitness with over three weeks off. BTW MY ARMS WERE QUITE SORE THE ENTIRE RUN (from 60 pushups yesterday etc..), so with that in mind I feel even better about this run!!! |
Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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