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Location:

American Fork,UT,

Member Since:

Nov 27, 2009

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

St George Marathon

2011 - 4:11:52 

2017. -4:01:17

2021 - 4:03:05

Salt Lake City Full Marathon

2013 -  4:23:03 

Ogden Marathon

2012 - 3:58:35

2013 - 4:17:20

2014 - 4:02:51

2017 - 3:55:22**

2023 - 3:57:09

Utah Valley Marathon

2019 - 4:05:37 

Top of Utah Marathon

2014 - 4:09:27

Mt Charleston Marathon

2019 - 4:05:33

West Mountain Marathon

2015 - 4:42:34

 

St George Half Marathon

2012 - 1:55:00

2013 - 2:03:00

2014 - 1:46:00

2015 - 1:48:00

2022-  1:42:45**

Salt Lake City Half Marathon

2012 - 1:51:00

2014 - 1:44:01

Hobble Creek Half Marathon

2001 - 1:40:00**

2011 - 1:45:00

2012 - 1:43:00

2013 - 1:43:00 

2022 - 1:48:53

American Fork Half Marathon

2013 - 1:48:24

2014- 1:53:23 (pacing Tim)

2017  - 1:47:54

2018 - 1:48:12

2019 - 1:47:50

Timp Half Marathon

2012 - 1:47:18 

2022 - 1:49:40 (AF Cancer course)

Utah Valley Half Marathon 

2011 - 1:55:00 

Top of Utah Half Marathon

2010 - 1:48:20 

The Haunted Half Provo

2018 - 1:51:28

 

Goblin Valley 50K

2014 - 5:58

Red Mountain 55K

2018 - 7:31:37

Antelope Island Fall Classic 50K

2017 - 6:14:23

Antelope Island 50 Mile

2015 - 10:10:00

Antelope Island 100 Mile

2018 - 26:53

 

 

**Personal Best 

 

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

 

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

To qualify for Boston

Personal:

Married for 23 years. I have 18 year old triplets and a 15 year old. I love to sew, garden, and run!

Favorite Running Quotes: 

1.  

"Sooner or later the serious runner goes through a special, very personal experience that is unknown to most people.

Some call it euphoria. Others say it's a new kind of mystical experience that propels you into a elevated state of consciousness, a flash of joy.

A sense of floating as you run. This experience is unique to each of us, but when it happens, you break through a barrier that separates you from casual runners. Forever. And from that point on, there is no finish line. You run for your life. You begin to be addicted to what running gives you."  

~Nike Poster

2.           A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Lao-Tzu

You’ve no doubt heard this.  And you’ve probably recited it in your mind on a run or at the gym when you’re just beginning to get in shape.  You have a goal in sight and this quote brings you back to the current moment.

 

But the problem is that many runners forget all of the steps between the first one and the goal.  If your goal is to run under two hours for the half marathon then you need to be honest about all of the little steps to get to that goal.

 

…and what I’d rather see you do is to get the goal out of mind completely, but rather focus on the process, not the outcome. -Jay Johnson Process orientation, not outcome orientation.

 

You should have goals, but you should take it one step at a time.  And you should be honest about the fact that you don’t know how many steps it will take to get there. ~ Vernon Gambetta

 

3.  Human beings are made up of flesh, blood and a miracle fiber called COURAGE! ~ George Patton 

 

4.   Find the courage to be patient.

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AM:

5 slow miles at the gym.  Just after I started running, my pal Kellie walked into the gym and got onto a TM next to me.  I was SO very grateful for her company and she made the miles fly by.

I had to buy a new swim suit this morning for a trip hubby and I are going on with his co-workers.  Swim suit shopping can certainly hurt a girls body ego!!!

 

PM:

When my big girls went Activity Days, I headed downstairs for some strength training.

3 x

10 star plank on Bosu

16 plank rows

20 scissors

10 lying leg lift

12 overhead press

12 butterflies

20 skull crushers

15 supermans on Bosu

LLL

B6

 

Lots of foam rolling on ITB and inner shins. 

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My arms were very sore from yesterday's arm workout.  Even though it makes me feel totally wiped out, I love that feeling.

Am #1:  7 miles on the stair mill.  After 3.5/4 miles, I would go hard for 2 minutes and easy for 1 minute.  Surprisingly, I felt very good.  I  was sweating like a pig, but my breathing was controlled.  I should probably do this more often.

 

AM#2:  I had a hard time getting moving for workout #2.  But I finally headed downstairs and just got it done!

3x

10/side - side to side lunges with overhead lift

10 hamstring lift

5/side - single arm push ups (though they are still very hard, I am getting so much better at these!!!!)

40 russian twists with weight

30/side - donkey kick (last 10 had a full circle)

Long foam rolling session on shins and calves. 

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AM #1 at the gym:

6 miles on the TM.  I was VERY pleasantly surprised at how great this run was.  This is the fastest I've run in a long time and had NO achiness in my ankle or shins. I don't think I'm quite out of the woods yet and will probably have a few more step backs.  But today's run gave me great hope.  I still need to work on my form and step counts.  I felt like my legs were a little flappy today.  Hopefully, all the painful foam rolling is paying off. 

 

 

AM#2 at home:

3x

20 side to side step ups on bench

10/side lunges on bench

20 SB hamstring curl

8 SB V pass

LLL

Long foam rolling on shins and calfs and a B6 on the Bosu 

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Official reast day. I loved every minute of sleeping in and deep cleaning my bathrooms (not so much the bathrooms).

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I had a hard time sleeping last night. I bought some new compression sleeves and wore them yesterday. Because they are such a pain to get on and odd, I decided to sleep in them. Major mistake! They bugged me all night!

I had told Kellie that I was going to do my long run today, so we planned on meeting when the gym opened at 4:30am. So I was worried I was going to sleep through my alarm.

My alarm went off at 3:55am, and I headed downstairs to my home TM to run 2 miles before I headed to the gym. I only had 2 hours at the gym before I needed to be home-hence the 2 miles at home. But I felt super horrible. I had a major migraine headache. I realized that I didn't drink enough water yesterday...too much coke. I drank a whole thing of water and some GU chomps on the way to the gym and felt much better.

I set up my TM with all my junk-2 water bottles, GU's, 2 sweat towels etc. Kellie got there shortly thereafter and we chatted for most of the run. During the last 2-3 miles, I was getting sick of running and getting bored. We both turned on our music and grinded through.

I was nervous as too how my ankle would hold up as it had been doing so great. It started to get tired the last few miles. I rubbed out my calves and foam rolled them when I got home. Feeling better! We'll see how they feel in the morning.

I took two 1hour naps today and still feel tired. I'm just doing a core workout tomorrow, so hopefully I can catch up on some sleep.

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Taking it easy today.  Though my legs/ankle feel super great, I didn't want to push my luck!

3x

10 star planks on Bosu

20 skull crushers

40 russian twists

16 row planks

25 dips

15 superman on Bosu 

60 sec planks (feet on ball, arms on ball, regular)

6 one arm push ups on Bosu

20 scissors

30 donkey kicks

LLL with weights

20 B6 with weight on Bosu

50 calf raises

LONG stretching and foam rolling session. 

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