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2011
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Location:

Farmington,UT,

Member Since:

Mar 27, 2011

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Age Division Winner

Running Accomplishments:

Lifetime PRs

10K - Des News 2005 38:23

10 mi - ? 2005 1:05:00

1/2 Marathon - Las Vegas 2001 1:25:20

Marathon - St George 2005 2:59:51

 Recent Races:

 Nike Women's Marathon

Reach the Beach Relay

Buffalo Run 25K



 

Short-Term Running Goals:

Have not seriously raced since 2005, but just run for fun while gettting over several injuries.  Goal is to get back my fitness and not get re-injured.  I am much older now and recovery takes a bit longer.  Goals for 2011, besides staying healthy:

Wasatch Back Relay

Top of Utah Half Aug 1:32

Reach the Beach Relay (Sept)

The Other Half marathon Oct 1: 30

 



Long-Term Running Goals:

I would love to do a 50 miler, plus get back to running a marathon in the 3 hr + range, but need to get running healthy again.

Personal:

Married with two grown boys.  One has embraced running and the other is a snowboard fanatic.  My profession, I am a computer analyst and geek.  After hours, I am a fitness nut who also enjoys reading and hanging out with my family.

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11.000.0011.00

Met Rachel at Weber State Stadium and ran north onto the pipeline trail till the cement wall we have to "touch", then headed back up onto the shoreline trail towards Beus park.  Ran 3 laps there then back.  GPS said 10 miles, but I later looked and the starting point wasnt even right!  Ran for 1:34 so guessing 11 miles.

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4.750.004.75

Park City Rail Trail with Rick.  Very slow, very hot, very overtrained.  Taking Sunday off!

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6.200.006.20

Another horrible night of insomnia.  I go to sleep really fast, but wake up and toss and turn most of the night.  Got to get to the bottom of this!  Met Anna at 6:30 at the trailhead by Hogle Zoo planning to run the trails thru Red Butte and onto Shoreline.  We wanted around 7 easy miles.  We were worried about the fires, but the trails were fine from the fires but the construction at Red Butte messed up the run.  It was sort of a mix up of road & trail, but still fun.  

 We also saw two different races using the same course.  Odd.  The water stop was by the trail head and both races were using it.

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Decided to try a tempo workout today.  Parked at the Capitol and ran easy up 11th to Virginia..  Plan was to tempo back.  First .7 was a slight uphill ... 7:22 pace.  Yikes.  Not tempo.  The next mile was slight downhill ...6:43 but it didnt feel good.  I felt like I didnt eat enough or something as I was already out of gas!  Next .67 was downhill then uphill into a stiff wind.  I was cooked.  7:25 pace.  I stopped to get a drink at City Creek and continued on a slight downhill to the car.  6:42 pace.  An up and down run, literally!  I felt really flat thru the workout but oddly invigorated too?

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Met K at the Capitol and then ran up on the trails to Ensign Peak for a gorgeous pre-work morning run.  Pace was recovery from the prior day's tempoish workout, so perfect!  With all of the climbing it was definitely a good cardio workout.  Saw a deer too!

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6 solid hrs of sleep and felt good.  No waking up at all.  Its so hard to get to bed early.

Met Michelle S after work at Liberty Park and ran easy loops.  5 loops (7.5 miles) and felt good.  I think we ran about an 8:00 pace which is faster than recovery, but not fast?  We chatted the whole time and caught up on life.  So much fun to run with a good friend!

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4.100.004.10

Debated whether to take the day off or do a super easy recovery run and decided to just run slow and easy.  Started at the Lagoon trailhead and ran all the trails, past the campgrounds, over the overpass to the trails behind the Justice Center.  Followed that till the turn to the Rio Grande paved trail.  Very nice and easy.  The smells of breakfast cooking at the campgrounds was awesome.  I love that smell.  

 

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13.100.0013.10

Einsteins in SLC up City Creek Canyon, past the power plant, past the 3.5 marker, till GPS said 5.75.  Very slow and easy going up.  Listened to Podcasts which were motivating.  Decided to pick it up going down.  Got back to Einsteins and added another loop thru the avenues for 13.1 miles. 1:53.

 

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8.250.008.25

2.25 on TM at lunch.  6 miles at Liberty Park with Michelle S after work.

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4.251.255.50

Met with Demitrios group in SLC.  Plan was w/u for 2 miles then do 10x200 speed changes untimed.  Stuck with the group for the first 5, then the heat and being on antibiotics got to me.  Got pretty sick.

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Lagoon trails after work.  HOT.

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6.700.006.70

Work-cc-1mi marker & back.  Slow up, tempo down.

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6.200.006.20

home-lagoon trails-glover.  easy.  tired.

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11.820.0011.82

Met my friend Anna at Einsteins in SLC nice and early (7AM).  Plan was to do what I did last week, minus the add on.  Ran really relaxed and easy, which is just what I needed after a week on antibiotics.  Ttl time 1:45

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6.800.006.80

Parked at the Capitol, ran to the city creek guardshack (1mi) for potty, then ran up Bonneville Blvd to 11th all the way to Virginia.  Easy pace.  Then turned and ran something like MP back.  First .6 or so is a slight uphill.  Maybe 7:45 pace, then downhill maybe 7:30s.  My GPS messed up big time.  Ran back to the guardshack for another drink and tempoed back to the capitol.  Bad thing was I hit lap on the GPS, not start so I am guessing aroun 6:50 pace.

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2.256.759.00

10x1:40 @ Liberty Park with K to simulate 400s.  Some were slower than others, but still a good workout.  6 mi total am.

 3 mi Lagoon trails pm.  Hot so ran slow.

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4.360.004.36

4.36 miles on the tm at work.  Ran 2 super easy, then ran a lap at 8 mph, then jogged 1 for a total of 4 laps at 8 mph.  Then did 4x100 strides.

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Started at the Capitol and ran towards the City Creek gate and then up the canyon to the 2 mi marker.  Temps were nice & cool.  Ran listening to podcasts and relaxed.  Then for the way down, decided to work on form and see if I could tempo it down.  First mile 6:55, second mile 6:46, last mile ... 6:35!  Felt great.

 After work, went to Yoga for Core Strength.  1.5 hrs!  Exhausted, but glad I went.

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4.200.004.20

4.2 recovery miles on Lagoon Trails.

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Opted to run with huz this morning. Usually, we don't do long runs together as he is much slower. However, I was still sore & tired from Thursday so thought it might work. We started at the Einsteins on S. Temple in SLC and ran up City Creek Canyon, until my Garmin said 6 miles. Pace was very slow and relaxed and we stopped for water and potty breaks when we needed them. Nice thing about this route! We then turned around and ran easy down the canyon. After a mile or so, I started to feel good so told R he was on his own. We both brought our Ipods just in case, so it worked. I ran back to the starting point, grabbed my hand held water bottle from the car and looped thru the Aves.

Overall felt good energy wise, but sooooo sore in the glutes and legs.

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4 on treadmill at hotel in Reno.

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5 easy in Lake Tahoe with R.

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4 easy in Lake Tahoe with R.  Trails.

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4 easy in Lake Tahoe with R.  Trails.

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4 easy in Lake Tahoe with R.  Trails.

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6.400.006.40

Ran from home down to the lagoon trails, ran thru all the trails, including by the campgrounds, then over the pass to the trail behind the jail till the T by the Rio Grande trail.  Felt good. 

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7.200.007.20

Ran 4.2 easy with R, then hopped on the treadmill at home for another 3 miles.  Felt great and could have done more, but opted to be careful since it has been 7 days of running in a row.

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