| Location: UT, Member Since: Oct 14, 2008 Gender: Female Goal Type: Age Division Winner Running Accomplishments: 85 marathons, 5 times Utah Grand Slam finisher (division winner twice).
7 Bostons (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2016).
Two 50Ks, one 50 miler (Pony Express).
A handful of AG wins in all distance races.
Marathon PR: 3:57:09 (Boston'08)
Half Marathon PR: 1:48:41 (Bryce Canyon '11)
10K PR: 47:50 (Spectrum 10K '09)
5K PR: 22:31 (Nestle 5K '08)
Short-Term Running Goals: 2017 Races:
June 10 - Utah Valley Marathon (5:13:43)
June 24 - Morgan Valley Marathon (5:49:01)
July 8 - Hobbler Half (2:19:37, 2nd AG)
July 24 - Temple to Temple 5K (27:43)
July 29 - Timp Half (2:08:01, 3rd AG)
Aug 26 - Mt. Nebo Marathon (5:16:16, 3rd AG)
Sep 16 - Huntsville Marathon (4:48:53)
Oct 7 - St. Geroge Marathon (4:57:11)
Nov 4 - Canyon City Marathon (5:30:07)
2018 Races:
Jan 13 - St. George Half (2:19:45, 3rd AG)
Mar 3 - The Woodlands Marathon (5:01:35)
Apr 6-7 - Ragnar So. California
June 1-2 - Ragnar Wasatch Back
June 9 - Utah Valley Marathon (5:19:22)
June 30 - Morgan Valley Half
Sep 1 - Pocatello Marathon (6:00:43)
Sep 15 - Huntsville Marathon (5:37:08)
Oct 6 - St. George Marathon (5:25:43)
Oct 20 - SoJo Marathon (5:29:23)
2019 Races:
June 1 - Utah Valley Marathon (5:44:24)
June 22 - Morgan Valley Marathon (6:15:13)
Aug 31 - Pocatello Marathon (5:38:47)
Sep 14 - Big Cottonwood Marathon (6:03:51)
Oct 5 - St. George Marathon (5:57:46)
Oct 12 - SoJo Marathon (5:55:45)
2020 Races:
Jan 18 - St. George Half (2:38:28)
Feb 15 - Sun Marathon (5:51:54)
May 5 - Conquer Covid-19 Virtual Marathon (5:49:07)
May 16 - Clear Creek Canyon Half Marathon (2:32:15)
May 25 - Utah Valley Virtual Marathon (5:33:110
June 9 - Independence Run Virtual Marathon (5:55:22)
Long-Term Running Goals:
Run happy and healthy all the days of my life. Be an example and inspiration to my family.
Personal: I'm 64, retired RN, happily married, nana to 14 beautiful grandchildren, mother to 6 children (1 daughter, 5 sons) who are kind, hardworking, caring, wonderful people! Wish they live closer!!! :) :) :)
Picked up running in 2005 at age 50, to stay healthy so I can take care of my husband who had endocarditis resulting in AVR and MVR in 2004, end stage renal failure in 2014, kidney transplant on Dec 30, 2015. Six months after the kidney transplant, we discovered that he has a rare auto-immune disease that was probably triggered in 2004 with then the undiagnosed infective endocarditis. The doctors had to make up a name for this rare disease, Monoclono Gammopathy with Renal Significance (MGRS). It is not curable. After desperately trying different chemotherapies, the doctor finally found one immuno-therapy, Daratumamab, that works to treat the MGRS. It is a miracle!!!
Grateful for the gift of life, blessings, dear friends and loved ones!!! Thankful for the ability to move, walk, jog, and yes run!!!!
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 159.80 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 159.80 |
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| Inspire 10 Cranberry Miles: 92.55 | Inspire 10 (ocean Breeze) Miles: 50.75 | Inspire 10 (mum's Day) Miles: 16.50 |
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| Steven's wedding day.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.30 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.30 |
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| Inspire 10 Cranberry Miles: 6.30 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 9.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.25 |
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| Inspire 10 Cranberry Miles: 9.25 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.50 |
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| Inspire 10 (ocean Breeze) Miles: 4.50 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 9.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.25 |
| Beautiful morning after a night's rain. Cool, calm, partly sunny sky. Ran with Leslie, Wendy, Stephanie and Sarah (Ben's girlfriend).
Been having this pain in my left upper chest since last Sat. not sure if it's muscle or stress fracture or just arthritis. But it hurts to breath deeply or do any pushing, lifting; also hurts with touch. It is localized. Pain scale about 4.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| With Larissa, Wendy, Leslie, Karen: down 3rd West > up Rail Trail > east MCT > Perry homes. Nice running weather, calm, partly sunny sky, low 60s. Slow as tare these days!
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| Inspire 10 (ocean Breeze) Miles: 5.50 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| 66 F Sunny. With Larissa down and up Dry Creek on MCT (800 E > MCT > Dry Creek > Mitch Hollow Park > MCT >Dry Creek > 600 E) AP: 10:48
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| Inspire 10 Cranberry Miles: 5.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.25 |
| 72F, 57% humidity, partly sunny. With Larissa, Karen and Leslie. Up Suncrest to Elelmentary School, turned back to Karen's house. We walked the last 0.25 mile with Karen who's still battling with PFs. AP: 10:16. Leslie kicked my trash on the uphill to Suncrest. Thankfully Larissa stayed with me.
Went shopping all day at the Outlets, Downeast, Target with Larissa and Jade. Our legs (including Jade's) were ready to fall off! :) We did have a couple hours break in the afternoon before going to upChuck-a-Rama for dinner with the family (all 14 of us) and resumed shopping til 9:15 at night! Cowabunga! I've never done so much shopping in one day in my life! :)
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| Inspire 10 (ocean Breeze) Miles: 8.25 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| 68F sunny. Larissa and I ran with Leslie west on MCT to 3 miles then turned back. I was a huffin' n puffin' on the uphill BUT I did NOT walk. We stopped briefly at the trailside bathroom to stretch and drink. AP: 9:50.
The upper left chest pain still bugging. Larissa thinks I have costochronitis. NSAIDS seems to help. Still have not been able to sleep more than 3 hours at a stretch. Other than that all is well.
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| Inspire 10 (ocean Breeze) Miles: 6.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 15.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 15.25 |
| Larissa and I left the house shortly after 6am and drove to the parking lot on the east bench of Manila/PG on Canyon Rd. We used the bathroom there and started our run right at 6:30am. Temp was 73 with partly cloudy sky which quickly got sunny within an hour and temp climbed to near 80.
We ran west for 2 miles and turned back to the parking lot where we were to meet Leslie and Karen at 7:15 since they wanted only 10 miles. When we didn't see their car, we continued on for 0.25 miles and back to the parking lot for 4.5 miles. Then we ran south together. I could tell Leslie was itching to go faster. My breathing would get labored with even the slightest incline. Leslie and Larissa got talking and went faster ahead, we'd always grouped back up at every water fountain stop. Karen didn't want to go farther than 10 so she stopped at the bathroom at her 4.75 miles to stretch and wait while we ran further and then joined us on the return. I gued at 6.25, ate 2 shot blocks at 10.5 and 1 shot block at 13. We stopped to take picture of the beautiful valley view. It was a wonderful morning running with my daughter and special friends.
Today is my granddaughter, Skylar's 3rd birthday. Her mom hosted a fabulous birthday party with "superhero" theme at noon. Jen dressed up as Elastic Girl, Jeff as Spiderman, Skylar was Superman. We all wore superheros Tshirt. Jeff made her a sandbox complete with benches and beach umbrella. Lucky girl!
Then we hosted a BBQ dinner at our house. So great to have three of my children and their spouses and 6 grandchildren, niece and her 2 children joined us. Busy happy day!
***Pocatello is three weeks out. My training has been dismal this summer. I am doing a rather quick mileage build up for this marathon. Barely made 40 miles this week. Hoping to peak at 50 next week then taper. Sometimes I feel like I have no business in running a marathon. I am old, fat and injured...and I am extremely stubborn...but I am alive and as long as I can put one foot in front of the other I will keep on keeping on! :)
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| Inspire 10 Cranberry Miles: 15.25 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| 66F sunny hazy. Ran with Leslie and Karen on MCT west to freeway junction and back with water stop at 1500W bathroom. AP: 10:12.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.25 |
| 64F sunny hazy. Didn't go out until almost 9am. Solo run east to tunnel top of Dry Creek > west to freeway junction > center street to home. AP: 11:07
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| Inspire 10 Cranberry Miles: 8.25 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.25 |
| 54F. sunny hazy. Ran with Leslie east to Highland side of Dry Creek then west to Perry Home subdivision. Ran around 2700N block for Leslie's turnback. AP: 10:01
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| Inspire 10 (ocean Breeze) Miles: 7.25 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 |
| 55F sunny hazy. Started east on Utah Highland Dr. and was stopped at the corner where the stake president and his wife were walkint and wanted to visit with me. Meanwhile the owner of the house whose son is good friend with Steven came out to tell me her daughter got called to serve in the Taiwan Taichung Mission. The visitings took 20 min. so had to cut my run short because of hubby's doctor's appointment at the PD Clinic. Did a slow 3 mile run to MCT 800E access and turned south on Center. AP: 10:54.
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| Inspire 10 (ocean Breeze) Miles: 3.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| 57F sunny, very very hazy, air quality is terrible, one can taste the burn, yuck!!! Waited to run with Wendy who got home from a week's trip to Idaho. Slow 5 miler to chat and get caught up with our weeks' happenings. AP: 10:52
The smoky air really bothered my asthma. I hope the wildfire in Oregon, Idaho get put out soon. Feel bad for the firefighters! Need to run long tomorrow...where should I go that the air is better?!!!
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| Inspire 10 (ocean Breeze) Miles: 5.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 20.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 20.50 |
| Took Bryan to the airport at 5:15 for his flight to Japan! Won't see him for at least a year! Goodbyes are always hard for me! :( Traffic at the point of the mountain is terrible...moving at 5mph... Made it home just as RAD pulled into my driveway. :) It's been over a year since I ran long with her at Park City Marathon! So very happy and grateful she'd come to run long and slow with me.
We drove to the same start/finish MCT trailhead bathroom on the bench of PG as last week. We noticed an aid station sign posted there...hmm, there's going to be a bike race! Temp was 59F and warming up, sunny, hazy in the distance but air felt refreshingly cool. We ran south towards Orem stopping every couple miles to drink at the fountain. Have never seen so many runners, walkers and cyclists using the trail as today! Legs felt heavy from the get-go and breathing a bit labored on slight incline.
I absolutely love running with RAD. She kept me at a steady pace with wonderful conversations. I will always remember her story of the mother hen gathering her chicks... beautiful analogy the Lord Himself used to illustrate His beckoning us, His beloved children. She made the miles clicked by and we fell into a good rythm.
We got to the end of MCT at around mile 8. We decided to turn east on the road towards the mouth of Provo Canyon. It's been over 2 years since I've run the Provo River Trail. We ran up the canyon and used the bathroom at the Park and continued on till we reached mile 10 then turned around. I ate couple of shot blocks every 2-3 miles and finished all 6 pieces mile 10ish and gu'ed at around mile 15.
When we got back to the start, I decided to turn around and run another 0.5 mile to make 50 miles total for the week! I couldn't have done it without RAD! The aid station for the bike race was about to close up. The nice volunteers offered us the leftover drinks and food. We ate a banana and drank chilled gatorade! While talking to them I found out that the volunteer ladies were the mother and sisters of the cyclist who was killed in an accident while riding her bike on the road up 2100N in Lehi. I remembered that accident. Turned out Karen visit taught (her husband home taught) the mother, Lynn C. So cool to finish this long run and receive refreshment from this lady whom Karen told me so much about. Was nice to finally meet her in person.
Thanks to RAD, I was able to complete this long run. AP: 10:02. We did a nice long stretch in the shady side of the garage. My left leg and foot were pretty sore. Pokey is 2 weeks out. This is the quickest buildup I've ever done...
Hubby and I met Sister Levine and her parents for dinner. She's a living miracle. Her goal is to walk on her own even if it's just 3 steps on Sept 5, the one year anniversary date of when she was hit by a moving car while she was standing outside her parked car to take a picture of a double rainbow in Canberra, Australia. She sustained massive head injury while her head hit the windshield and she was pinned under the car. Miracously not one bone in her body was broken. She was put on a medically induced coma as her brain swelled up. To see her speak, laugh, smile, eat, etc. is to witness God's tender mercy and miracle. Her parents have been by her side with unwavering faith and are examples of selfless love. What a blessing and privilege it is for hubby and I to have served with her and hear her say that we are hers forever! :)
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| Inspire 10 Cranberry Miles: 20.50 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| 61F, mostly sunny, 60% humidity. Wendy and Karen ran 5, I did 6, Leslie ran 7. AP: 9:53. 1st mile warm up with Wendy (10:40), MCT (9:51, 9:43, 9:56, 9:45), last mile with Leslie (9:23). We'd recite a phrase of "The Living Christ" at every mile. We hope to have it memorize in 6-8 weeks! :)
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| Inspire 10 Cranberry Miles: 6.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.25 |
| 63F mostly sunny, 70% humidity. Ran with Wendy to Mitch Hollow. We walked the uphill. AP: 10:30
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 11.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 11.00 |
| 55F sunny 40% humidity. Ran with Wendy east on MCT to Highland Glen park bathroom by Lone Peak and back. We walked all the uphills. On the last uphill we caught up to Bill and walked with him for 1 mile. We were slower than tar, but so nice to be able to talk and enjoy a beautiful morning. AP: 11:54. :)
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| Inspire 10 (mum's Day) Miles: 11.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 6.75 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.75 |
| 63F mostly sunny, 55% humidity. Ran by myself west to rail trail junction (about mile 3) on MCT via Center. About mile and half into the run, my neighbor Veralyn flew past me and said she has 4 miles left on her 20 miler! Wow! how'd it be to run that fast at the end of a long run! That motivated me to pick up the pace a tad. Feeling pretty decent on the return so turned down at 810E to grab a drink from the fountain. AP: 10:14 (11:58, 10:48, 9:23 (wake up after Veralyn passed me), 10:18 (uphill), 9:48, 9:39, 9:36.
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| Inspire 10 Cranberry Miles: 6.75 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| 61F mostly sunny 63% humidity. Ran with Wendy west on MCT. We continue to work on memorizing "The Living Christ". Got the first paragraph down!!!! :)
PF pretty sore especially on the left heel. Didn't help that hubby and I walked all over Fashion Place Mall where he visited the Apple store to have his phone fixed. The guy tried to talk us into replacing the phone with a whoping $260. Are you kidding me? I wouldn't budge and they ended up replacing it for free.
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| Inspire 10 (mum's Day) Miles: 5.50 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 159.80 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 159.80 |
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