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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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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Saucony Guide ISO Wide Lifetime Miles: 311.91
Saucony Guide ISO Lifetime Miles: 313.31
Sacony Guide ISO (2) Lifetime Miles: 225.26
Altra Torin (sz 7) Lifetime Miles: 44.49
Saucony Guide 10 (2020) Lifetime Miles: 60.91
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
22.0026.557.701.7558.00
Inspire 5 (1) Miles: 26.55Inspire 5 (2) Miles: 31.45
Night Sleep Time: 26.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 26.00Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.004.000.000.259.25

Recovery + strides.  9.25 in 1:27:20.  AP:  9:26

Ran with Wendy and Carolyn on the Lehi JRP.  They have signed up to run the Thanksgiving Point Half in April and needed to do 9 this morning.  I wanted to see if the trail closure on the north portion is passable.  So we ran north and YES, the big dirt mount is gone and we easily stepped over the plastic fencing.  The trail was torn up but runnable.

 

Inspire 5 (1) Miles: 9.25
Night Sleep Time: 6.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.00Weight: 0.00
Comments(20)
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.004.000.000.0012.00

12 miles MLR.  Plan was to run 4 hill miles, down 3200 N up it, then down 2600 N back up it, then down 300 W and up it x 2.  But when I took my son to school, I saw how bad the wind storm was coming from the SW, I abandoned that plan and onto the boring TM. 

3 miles warm up @ 1%:  10:56, 9:46, 9:28  Felt rather fatigued, slow to warm up!

Four 1-mile hills @ progressive incline with  0.5 mile @ 1% incline between hills:

Hill #1 @ 2% in 9:20 (1/2 mi @ 1% in 4:32)

Hill #2 @ 3% in 9:15 (1/2 mi @ 1 % in 4:30)

Hill #3 @ 4% in 9:11 (1/2 mi @ 1% in 4:25)

Hill #4 @ 5% in 9:00 (1/2 mi @ 1% in 4:22)

3 miles cool down @ 1%:  8:34, 8:47, 8:49

Need to do some yoga tonight.

***THANK YOU Andy for this link.  I'm posting it here to remind myself of the taper plan. ***

http://pfitzinger.com/labreports/marathontaper.shtml

Inspire 5 (2) Miles: 12.00
Night Sleep Time: 6.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.00Weight: 0.00
Comments(15)
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
1.001.001.501.505.00

Gone half a day to SL for the General Primary Training Meeting...very inspiring, edifying!  STINKY driving in the fog/rain/snow rush hour traffic!!!

Recovery + speed.  5 mi w/ 6 x 100m strides

Warm up 2 miles.

0.125 mi strides @ 6:40,  RI same distance @ 6-7mp x 6

TT: 41:41.  AP: 8:20.   Splits: 9:20, 8:37, 8:10, 7:59, 7:35.

Going back to SL for the Jazz game...more winter driving!

Hoping for better weather this weekend, Happy Easter!  March was a lion...may be April will be a lamb!  :)

Inspire 5 (2) Miles: 5.00
Night Sleep Time: 5.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 5.00Weight: 0.00
Comments(6)
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.000.000.000.005.00

WOW! Got to love winter running! Last Friday, March 26, I ran 22 miles in horrid freezing hail/snow/sleet UPHILL with HEADWIND GUST to Alpine!!! The sun peeked out AFTER my run! What?!! Are you kidding me?!! :twisted: Mother Nature sure has a weird sense of humor!

So this morning I decided to show her!  I was going to redeem my 22 mler.  but felt so good that I continued for 4 more,  in snow and slush mind you, all over Alpine and best last week's time by 41 seconds!!!!  How you like them apples? And I didn't even need an ice bath (was in one the whole time)!  I may have to see my personal PT (aka SSF) to fix me good before Boston though! :shock: :mrgreen:

***HAPPY April 1st, fellow bloggers!***

Although that was one of my wildest dreams, this is what I really did:

5 EZ recovery mi at AP: 10:01

3 circuits core work

Debating whether to switch my long run to tomorrow.  Forecast says it will be stormy on Sat.   Plan says to run a 8K-10K tune-up race tomorrow.  There's no race on a Fri.  Wanting to run 9 mi with 5 @ tempo.  What to do?

Inspire 5 (2) Miles: 5.00
Night Sleep Time: 4.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 4.00Weight: 0.00
Comments(18)
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
1.0016.300.000.0017.30

I am SO HAPPY JulieC offered to run with me this morning just as I was debating what to do.  I got to the JRP a little before her, so I ran north to the trail closure and back for 1.3 mi just as she arrived.  The north trail closure was not passable as there was a big earth moving machine digging up mounts of dirt.  Anyhow, Julie and I ran south to the other trail closure which is 8 mile round trip, back to the car/aid station to drink and shed the jacket.  It was a gorgeous day w/ sunny blue sky and birds chirping.  We ran back south again for 8 more and it was a bit breezy and we were both feeling hungry.

My Garmin305  is not working properly.  It would power off automatically if the belt get tugged or jiggled, so I lost some splits.  Will have to get them off of Julie's fancy schmancy new Garmin.  Mine shows my fastest 2 miles at 8:29, slowest was the first warm up mile at 9:10, average pace at 8:40.  Now I feel like I've redeemed myself from last week's horrible blizzard 22 miler.

Julie is an AWESOME pacer and running partner!  The miles just flew by while we chat.  It helps to run with someone faster than me.  She is a very talented and intelligent runner.  I feel so honor that she wanted to take it easy today to run with me.  

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU, Julie, You're the BEST!!!

Inspire 5 (1) Miles: 17.30
Night Sleep Time: 5.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 5.00Weight: 0.00
Comments(7)
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
2.001.256.200.009.45

Schedule says to run a 8K-10K tune up race.  There's a Half at Ogden this morning; but I didn't want to miss General Conference so I did my own 10K race.

Warm up 2 miles in 19:14.  Did the 8 dynamic flexibility exercises.

10K in 46:29 

Cool down 1.25 miles in 10:02

TT: 1:15:45  AP: 8:00

20 min yoga while watching General Conference.

***************

Love Pres. Monson's sweet comments about his dear wife, Francis.  Really enjoy listening to Sis. Beck's talk on the sacred roles of women.  Elder Packer's talk on the wonderful power of Priesthood.  Elder Ballard's great counsels to mothers and daughters.  Elder Eyring's inspired words to families, children, youth, parents in following the straight and narrow path. 

My soul hungers for these nurturing words of the Prophets and Leaders (especially the women).  It gives me strength, joy and peace.  I am soooo grateful to have the Gospel in my life and to have made sacred covenants with the Lord.

Inspire 5 (2) Miles: 9.45
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
Comments(18)
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
22.0026.557.701.7558.00
Inspire 5 (1) Miles: 26.55Inspire 5 (2) Miles: 31.45
Night Sleep Time: 26.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 26.00Weight: 0.00
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