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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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I headed up the LP Hwy again this morning.  They switched the construction cones, so I tried to stick on the sidewalk.  But at each intersection, they have laid new cement which has plastic covering over it, so I had to tip toe over it.  Very complex!!

I'm still contemplating HOW great I felt this morning.  My first mile was slow and hard (but it also has a mile long hill), but after that I was cruising!

50:38 

5 min walk/5 min run

4 min walk/6min run

2 x 3 min walk/7 min run

2 min walk/8 min run  - I was about a mile away from my house and wanted to see if I could run an 8 minute mile.  But I did it in a 7:37.  Yahoo!

No ankle pains.  My kids got up so darn early because of day light savings, so my morning nap was cut short :(

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3 x

10 back lunges

10 side to side lunges

10 bicep curl/overhead press

60 second plank

On the RUN:

Calves felt very tight and very beat up from yesterday's hard effort.  

4 min walk/6 min run

3x3 min walk/7 min run

LOTS AND LOTS of foam rolling on my calves and ITB.  Ankle is achy/tired today. 

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48:47:00

3 x 3min walk/7 min run

2 x 2 min walk/8 min run

Fair to partly cloudy on the run.  My ankle was very very tired and my calves ached.  UGHHHHHHH!!!!!!  

Long stretching session and foam rolling.  I wore my compression socks all day yesterday and today.

I still haven't registered for  Ogden even though I was accepted into the lottery.  I don't know why.  I think I have this deep dark feeling that I just won't be ready.  Running makes me mental.

Tomorrow is a rest day. 

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Outside.  No watch. Hurried because I had a baby shower to put on.

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