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January 2011

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Location:

Orem,UT,USA

Member Since:

Nov 10, 2008

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

19 Marathons!

2007 St. George Marathon 3:07

2009 Boston Marathon 3:11:17

2009 Bryce Canyon 1/2 Marathon 1:24:48

2009 Top of Utah Marathon 3:03

2009 Halloween 1/2 Marathon 1:22:38

2010 Bryce Canyon 1/2 Marathon 1:23:48

2010 Top of Utah Marathon 3:01:51

2011 Bryce Canyon 1/2 Marathon 1:22:16

2011 St. George Marathon 2:58:19

2012 Provo City Marathon 2:59:24

2012 Bryce Canyon 1/2 Marthon 1:22:08

2012 St. George Marathon 2:54:39

Long-Term Running Goals:

I love to run!  I want to feel good and run for a very long time.

Personal:

My husband Brent and I live in Orem with our three kids ages 12, 10 & 7.  Brent is a Marriage and Family Therapist and I'm at home with the kids.  I used to be a CPA, but now I just do a little bookkeeping from home.  For a lot of years running a marathon was something I did to get back in shape after having a baby.  Just finishing was accomplishment enough, now I want to finish faster.

I ran the St. George Marathon in 3:18 when I was 18 and set a record for my age division 15-18.  Now I train with the girl who broke my record.  I love the marathon and half marathon.   Long runs are what keep me from going crazy.

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Woke up feeling like I'm coming down with a cold, runny, stuffy nose, etc.  I didn't get enough sleep the last few nights.  It was 1 degree outside, so that took all appeal away from going out for an easy run.  Could have done treadmill but didn't. 

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7.5 miles with Marie, Amanda & Rebecca

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10 miles, south on Univ Ave and back.  Avg 7:13 pace. 23degrees when I left and 32 when I got back.  After the single digits 32 feels pretty good.

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10 miles out past Timpview High School and back Avg 6:56 pace.  I felt surprisingly well, especially after how hard I ran Tuesday.  I think it's because I took a nap Tues and got 8 hours of sleep the last several nights.  One of my goals for the new year is to sleep more.  It's part of my eat better, sleep better, feel better goal. 

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5 miles with Amanda, Rebecca and Marie

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10 miles with Amanda and Rebecca avg 7:38 pace

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4 miles on my treadmill

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10 miles on my treadmill.  Avg 6:48 pace.  Running on the treadmill is so much easier than the road.  The time went really quick because I watched a movie too.

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10 miles avg 7:02 pace.  Timpview Highschool route.  30 degrees at start and 37 at finish with sunshine the whole way!  Great day for a run.

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6 miles easy with friends.

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12 miles with Marie & Danielle.  I think we averaged about 7:35 pace.  I haven't gone over 10 since September so this was good for me.

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4 miles easy by myself around 7 a.m.  It felt like the perfect morning for running, 37 degrees with clouds and a rainy wet road, seemed warm to me.  

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10 miles avg 6:57 pace.  My arms and legs felt disproportionately tired to how hard I was breathing.  I felt stiff and heavy.  I stopped once to stretch and that only helped a little bit.  I guess I need more of the magical "cure all," sleep!  A little yoga would help too.

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10 miles south to Orem Center Street, up Univ Ave and into Provo Canyon then back home the same way.  Avg pace 6:48, breathing hard but my body felt great, way better than Tuesday's run.

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6 miles with Marie, Amanda & Rebecca.  Avg 7:30 pace, felt really tired.

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10 miles with Marie and Amanda.  Avg 7:16 pace. 

Last night we did a total dejunking (is that a word?) of my boys bed room and closet.  They share a room and the floor has been a mess since Christmas.  With the exception of one afternoon when I picked everything up and put it on their beds so I could vacuume.  That night it all just went back onto the floor.  Very frustrating.    

This afternoon we tackled the toy room, which is basically a room with a couch, TV and Legos everywhere.  The floor was so covered they got out the Lincoln Logs in their bed room last week.  A bunch of stuff went into the trash and I have a pile for the DI.  I told them, "If you throw it away you'll never have to clean it up again!"  I was pleased they were actually willing to part with quite a lot, just none of the Legos.  At one point I asked my son if he wanted to keep something and he said, "I didn't know where that was."  It was on the floor in the middle of the toy room, but the room was such a mess he couldn't see it!

Just so people don't start imagining scenes from "Horders," the rest of my house is actually very consistently clean.  Time to work on pine wood derby cars.

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5 miles with Marie, Amanda & Rebecca. Avg about 7:30 pace

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10 miles in a snow storm, avg 7:22 pace.  Last night when my husband turned on the news and asked me if I wanted to see the weather I believe I said, "No, I saw it this morning.  I know what they're going to say.  It's the same all week, low 27, high 40.  There's no storms coming."  Were they wrong or what?!  The 1 1/2 hour snow storm started about 3 miles into my run and there was about an inch on the ground by the time I finished.  I called my husband on my cell phone at about mile 7 as I thought he would think it was funny I was out running in a blizzard given my comments the night before.

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10 miles up/down Provo Canyon.  Avg 7:01 pace.

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4 miles with Marie and Amanda. 

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12 miles with Danielle.  Avg 7:32 pace

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8 miles with Marie, Rebecca and Amanda.  Avg 7:36 pace

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