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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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Rainy blustery day.  8x800 on the dreadmill watching Paper Plane, cute Aussie movie!

TT: 1:24:35 AP: 10:34

Altra Provision 2.0 Miles: 8.00
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36F partly cloudy slight breeze.  Ran the entire length of the Lehi MCT (Access on 800 E >East to Dry Creek Hill 1.75 turned West to Triumph Blvd then East to 800E >home).  Got progressively faster when I realized I needed to take hubby to Dr. Cline's appointment.

TT: 1:32:32  AP: 10:16 (11:37, 11:02, 10:28, 10:05, 9:35, 10:56, 9:48, 9:34, 9:28)

Today marks exactly 3 months (13 weeks) since hubby's kidney trasplant on Wed. Dec. 30, 2015.  Over these months, he's had a few set-backs, first with post-op bleeding, inability to void, 4 bouts of UTIs, 4 ER trips with 2x hospitalization, back to surgery to drain the abcessed hematoma and under the incision.  He is feeling so much better now.  Three of the medications (Bactrim, Valcite, Fluconazoe) are discontinued, Phospha and Calcitral are decreased to half of the dose.  He is also off Gabapentin and weaning off Trazadone.  His appetite has improved and he is gaining some weight.  He is driving to the doctor's appointment and able to do some light grocery shopping.  We are excited to host our mission reunion of Friday.  Tomorrow we will meet with the Howes to finalize the shopping.  He will finish last dose of antibiotics (Augmentin) on April 9, do a urine culture along with regular lab tests on April 12, then see Dr. Cline on April 13.  If all goes well and it should, we fly out to Boston on a Sat. red-eye flight. 

Inspire 10 Cranberry Miles: 9.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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Lab morning! Rainy, windy.  Dreadmill again.  AP: 10:34 

Pres. and Sis. Howes came.  Took them to Olive Garden for lunch.  We then went shopping at Costco for the perishable goods we need for our combined missions reunion tomorrow night.  It was so good to visit with them and talked about our mission days!  We love them so much and miss our friends in Sydney and our missionaries from all over the world terribly.  So excited to see many of our missionaires tomorrow! :)

Altra Provision 2.0 Miles: 9.00
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Didn't sleep much last night.  Short slow solo run this morning.  Mission reunion day!!!

Annie brought over her roasting pan AND a binder of all my mission emails that I sent home.  She printed them out including pictures and put them in a binder as a gift.  She didn't want to give it to me when we first returned home thoughtful of our sad and tender feelings at the time.  But today is the perfect time to give that to us.  I thumbed thru and read some...wow! I've forgotten how busy we were on our mission, how much work we did and the amazing miracles we witnessed each day. 

Then my wonderful sis-in-law brought over the taco meat she had cooked and freezed.  She and grandma helped me take all the food and stuff to the church kitchen and helped me unload and stuffed the refrigerator. 

Brad and Beth Beeston, Sisters Harris, Bretzing, Elders Gardner, MacFarlane, Peterson came to the church at 4 to help me set up and chop, cut.  Sammi brought 2 missionaries (Watt and Guo) from the North Mission to help too.  We had such a fun time with all the help.  The combined ASM and ASSM missions reunion was a success.  We fed over 200 missionaries.  We had taco salad and fresh fruits.  The senior missionaries brought TimTams, cookies and other sweet treats.  The Levines helped us with re-filling the food table and water in the beverage holders.  They said there were close to 250 people when we all stood and sang "Called to Serve".  Larry and I spoke first, then Sister Rhodes (formerly Clegg) and an elder from the North mission, then Sister Howse and Pres. Howse. 

I'm so grateful for the miracle of healing that Larry was able to stand all day, visit with, hug our missionaires.  Each of these missionaires is a miracle to us.  They are amazing!  Larry left at 10pm.  By the time I cleaned up, loaded up the Tahoe, it was 11:30 and there was still a group of missionaires visiting with their mission parents, the Howse.  I was so tired yet not able to fall asleep...too happily exhuasted!!! :)

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Got a total of probably 2 hours sleep.  I stayed in bed to chat with my sis-in-law from HK. Then got up to fix hubby a nice breakfast.  We then walked to the church to make sure everything was ok and it was and returned the church and library keys to Sister Miner. 

Conference talks were wonderful and surprisingly I did not fall asleep once.  Steven and Jia-Fen came over and watched the afternoon session with us.  We then met Jeff and Jen and the grandkids for dinner at China Isle in AF.  While the men attended to or watched Priesthood session, Jia Fen and I went with Wendy to Deseret Books for Lynne's and her mom's book signing.  Good day! So glad I ran long last Sat. because there's no way I would have the time nor the energy to run today! :)

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