| Location: Saint George,UT,USA Member Since: Dec 23, 2009 Gender: Female Goal Type: Other Running Accomplishments: Mount Charleston Marathon 2016 - 3:17:51
Snow Canyon Half 2012 - 1:33:30
Spectrum 10K 2012 - 43:41
Short-Term Running Goals: Run a destination marathon.
Complete a half Ironman.
Long-Term Running Goals: Know when to hold 'em
Know when to fold 'em
Know when to walk away
Know when to run.... Personal: Surrounded by the people I love. Life is good.
Passionate about my family, the University of Utah -- GO UTES, almond M&Ms, mountain biking, comfy t-shirts, Survivor, friends, and (of course) running.
Physical therapist at The Health and Performance Center at Dixie Regional Medical Center. I LOVE what I do. Seriously, living the dream! |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 104.00 | 29.10 | 22.00 | 2.80 | 79.00 | 236.90 |
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| Adidas Supernova Glide - Pink/White Miles: 33.30 | Adidas Supernova Glide - Blue Miles: 17.60 | Adidas Supernova Glide - Pink/Black Miles: 8.00 | Adidas Supernova Glide Teal/White 2 Miles: 84.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 | 8.00 |
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5 easy TM miles
30 minutes upright bike | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 9.00 | 3.00 | 3.00 | 0.80 | 0.00 | 15.80 |
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1 mile on the TM, 9:00 minutes (I was ready at 4:35 and didn't need to leave my house until 4:45 to meet up with JohnnyV).
14.8, AP 8:12 with JohnnyV (and some with John D) on the JRP. Progressive run. We never felt awesome, but still managed to pull off a decent pace and hit it hard at the end. Very happy about that. Ran into my SSF, Kathie, Kim, Kelly, and Jon a couple of times. How I wish that I didn't have to be home by 7:00 a.m. so that I could have chatted with them more than a few seconds. Dang I miss those girls. Someone needs to put together another Monday or Friday lunch. :) :) :)
Boating and wakeboarding. Lots of bugs, but beautiful weather!!! So fun! :) :) :)
Hope everyone has a FANTASTIC 4th of July weekend! :) :) :) |
| Adidas Supernova Glide - Pink/White Miles: 15.80 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 1.50 | 9.10 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 11.60 |
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11.6 miles
10.1 by my lonesome, AP 7:48 (stopped at a few lights)
1.5 with Ry, AP 8:49
Happy 4th! :)
Slept in a tent last night. I must have been tired because between midnight and six a.m. I did not stir (my back hurts a bit though ... I must be getting old). :) |
| Adidas Supernova Glide - Blue Miles: 11.60 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.00 | 9.00 |
| 90 minutes elliptical -- too much studying to do to run | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 0.50 | 0.00 | 2.00 | 2.00 | 2.00 | 6.50 |
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4.5 mile run
20 minutes elliptical
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| Adidas Supernova Glide - Pink/White Miles: 4.50 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 5.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 | 9.00 |
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30 minutes elliptical
6 mile run. Ran into Matt, was super nice to have some company for a few miles. :)
Things just seem crazy busy this week. The running is suffering a bit. |
| Adidas Supernova Glide - Blue Miles: 6.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
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5 miles on the Dutch Hollow trails. BEAUTIFUL and a bit brutal! :) Ran Gobbler's Gulch, Boneyard, and Sage Loop. :)
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| Adidas Supernova Glide - Pink/White Miles: 5.00 |
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Super Spartan - Utah (8 Miles) 01:46:00, Place overall: 2 | | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
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This race was crazy tough and crazy awesome!!!
Not even sure where to begin.
Roughly 1200 participants divided into several different heats. Fonz and I had made a deal, I would run the Spartan if he would run SGM and I had to sign up in the competitive heat. I have be so nervous and sick about running it, but am beyond ecstatic that I did.
The terrain consisted of wicked elevation gains and losses above Soldier Hollow and 18 military obstacles. The obstacles were insane, including climbing up ropes, wading through mud pits that were higher than my navel, climbing over walls, dragging cinder blocks, jumping through fire, target shooting, throwing javelins, a rubick's cube, monkey bars, slick rocks, crawling under barbwire in the mud for roughly 200 yards with some military man yelling at you, balance beams, lifting up tires, and even running through a pit of gladiators (who knocked me over and threw me like a barbie doll) at the end!!!! CRAZY CRAZY CRAZY stuff. I have a few injuries (but nothing that won't heal and nothing that should keep me from running: shoulder and stinking thumb) and I look pretty dang beat up (bruises and cuts all over) but the trophy I got was totally worth it!!! Seriously, best trophy EVER EVER EVER!!!! And an experience that I will NEVER forget! :)
Miraculously, I was second overall female (first place was 10 minutes ahead of me, 3rd place was 5 seconds behind) and Fonz was the third overall man. The mens competition was definitely greater than the womens. According to Hobie Call (The Spartan King, I believe he has won 10 straight Spartan races) this was the toughest course in the series. He usually runs them just under an hour and this one took him 1:09. My goal was to double Hobie's time and try to beat it. I was thrilled with the result!! Not only did I get the coolest and heaviest trophy EVER but I also got a $150.00 pair of Skull Candy Rocnation Aviators (sadly my ipod is too old to use them ... I might have to remedy that) and qualification and entry to the 48 hour Death Race in North Carolina (which I will definitely NOT be doing).
BEST PART: Ry decided to run this last minute!!!!! He is the man!!!! He did AWESOME!!!! :) :) :) Seriously, I am the luckiest woman alive! (He said it was a good thing he didn't know what he was in for.) It was a GREAT day!!!
Oh yeah, so this was super cool and kept my fire burning throughout: about the last half of the race I was jockeying for 2nd, 3rd and 4th places. It was the coolest feeling when I would be in 2nd or 3rd place because when I would complete an obstacle you would hear one of the military people get on their walkie talkies and say, "2nd (or 3rd) woman just finished obstacle number blah blah blah." DANG THAT WAS AWESOME!!! Of course, I wasn't sure if it was exactly accurate because this was time chipped and I started towards the front. I definitely pushed myself to new limits in this race. I feel Spartan tough!!!! :) :) :)
Everyone should do this race at least once! http://www.spartanrace.com/
Ry and Me before the race! :)
Hobie Call and me. :)
Awards ceremony.
Fonz and me. :) |
| Adidas Supernova Glide - Pink/Black Miles: 8.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 16.00 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 18.00 |
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18 miles, AP 8:39
Saturday's race really took a toll on my body. The 18 miler this morning was much tougher than I had anticipated. Other than the two miles I ran with Matt it seemed to drag on forever. Hot ... boring ... lonely ... tired ... blah blah blah. But if there is any chance of me running the D-News full I needed to get in some type of long run. What to do?
Oh yeah ... took a few walking breaks because I was just feeling stinky! |
| Adidas Supernova Glide Teal/White 2 Miles: 18.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.00 | 9.00 |
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45 minutes bike
45 minutes elliptical
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.50 | 4.50 |
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Slept in.
45 minutes elliptical
Core workout | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 1.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.00 |
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.5 easy, 8 threshold, .5 easy
Pain in lower left leg as the day progressed. Felt quite a bit better with ibuprofen but still very noticeable. |
| Adidas Supernova Glide Teal/White 2 Miles: 9.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.50 | 4.50 |
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45 minutes elliptical
Core workout
Leg strength training
Tried to run but stopped within a couple of minutes due to lower left leg pain. I am 95% sure that it is medial tibial stress syndrome. In otherwords, shinsplints. I seem to do so much better when I run more miles but slower miles. Trying to compensate for the lack of time I have had available to run I have increased the intensity. Looks like I have increased it too quickly. Need to re-evaluate the plan.
Unsure about D-News. I will give it a couple days and see what happens.
The good thing is that there is no time to worry and stress about it! :) :) :)
Happy Friday, everyone. :)
** Btw, a couple of people told me not to run the 18 miler on Monday so quickly after the Spartan. You know who you are ... and yes, I should have listened. :) | | Comments(5) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 0.00 | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
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10 miles, AP 7:54
Waited until a little before 10:30 this morning so that I could run in the heat. Heat has always been my nemesis, as it was today as well. I just feel icky when it is hot. Don't we all? When I left it was 78 degrees, when I got home it was 82 degrees. I stopped in the middle of my run to lay in the intersection of 5 different sprinklers. Then again to drench my tank in a drinking fountain a few miles later. Seriously, I am such a baby.
Took ibuprofen last night to reduce some of the inflammation, I also taped up my leg. It faired fairly well during the run, which makes me happy. :)
Happy Saturday everyone!
I am so excited to see how Walter does tomorrow. I have thought about it a hundred times on my run today. Beyond amazing!
A huge congrats to my SSF as well on her PR this morning. WAHOO!!! :) :) :) |
| Adidas Supernova Glide Teal/White 2 Miles: 10.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
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10 miles, AP 8:38
82 degrees when I left, 88 when I got home. Trying to acclimate to the heat with not much success. It drains me. Ran the new entrance to the parkway. It is fun to enter the parkway on it ... but not so much fun to exit. :)
Windy and hot. Drank lots. Left lower leg kinda icky but not horrible. I'm playing a bit with fire here ... trying to toe the line without crossing over. Come on sweet leg ... hang in there, baby! :) |
| Adidas Supernova Glide Teal/White 2 Miles: 10.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 | 3.00 |
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30 minutes upright bike
Need to get my leg feeling better. Going to be smart and take it super easy for the next little bit.
Have decided not to run D-news. :( | | Comments(14) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 | 6.00 |
| 60 minutes upright bike | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 | 6.00 |
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60 minutes elliptical
core workout | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| golf :) :) :) | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 15.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 | 17.00 |
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15 easy miles, AP 8:58
20 minutes upright bike
Leg is on the mend. Definitely not at the "let's throw a few fast miles in there" stage yet, but runnable. :)
Golf
Hope everyone is having a great weekend. :) |
| Adidas Supernova Glide Teal/White 2 Miles: 15.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 | 13.00 |
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10 easy TM miles
30 minutes upright bike
core workout | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 | 6.00 |
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30 minutes bike
30 minutes elliptical | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
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8 miles
lower body strength training |
| Adidas Supernova Glide - Pink/White Miles: 8.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.00 | 9.00 |
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90 minutes elliptical
core workout | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.00 | 9.00 |
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45 minutes bike
45 minutes elliptical
upper body strength training | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 18.00 | 4.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 22.00 |
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22 miles
16 with my brother, Nic, and my beautiful SIL (Nic's wife), Annie! :) :) :) I LOVED these miles. I kept thinking about how lucky I am to have such wonderful family. Each mile made me think about running with Annie during the last handful of miles of her first marathon. She is seriously AMAZING! She is going to rock SGM. I am so excited. I have never been one to wear matching clothes with anyone, but I think her and I will get some matching running duds for the race. Why does that make me feel all excited and high schoolish again??? :) :) :)
6 miles by my lonesome (not as fun) but still felt good. :)
Thought a lot about my SSF and other friends running the Timp full and half today. Can't wait for their race reports to start pouring in. No texts from them yet. I bet that means they are getting awards!!!! :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
* Oh yeah, saw Kelly and Jon A on the trail! Very fun! :) :) :)
Happy weekend all! :) |
| Adidas Supernova Glide Teal/White 2 Miles: 22.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 104.00 | 29.10 | 22.00 | 2.80 | 79.00 | 236.90 |
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| Adidas Supernova Glide - Pink/White Miles: 33.30 | Adidas Supernova Glide - Blue Miles: 17.60 | Adidas Supernova Glide - Pink/Black Miles: 8.00 | Adidas Supernova Glide Teal/White 2 Miles: 84.00 |
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