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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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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
74.8141.7010.7012.00124.50263.71
Adidas Supernova Glide - Pink/White Miles: 20.00Adidas Supernova Glide - Teal #3 Miles: 95.20Adidas Supernova Glide - Orange Miles: 19.30
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
1.503.500.000.005.0010.00

30 minutes upright bike (hills/around the world/6)

5 TM miles, AP 7:56

800 m swim, 17:xx  

Adidas Supernova Glide - Pink/White Miles: 5.00
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Gym date with Rylee! :)

(Friday mornings are the BEST!)

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20 minutes rower (3300 m)

20 minutes upright bike (Kilimanjaro/10)

20 minutes shagging balls for Rylee. (Started out with a game of horse. Sadly, for me, Rylee beat me in less than 3 minutes ... no joke! I was H-O-R-S-E  and she was merely H, I had one lucky shot.) So ... we decided it best if I just shagged balls for her while she would shoot from various spots around the 3 point line making it look as easy as Sunday morning. DANG!!! Proud mama am I!!! :) :) :)

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10 miles, AP 8:44!!! WOOT WOOT!!! First double digit mileage in 9 weeks!!!! :)

Started out slow (10 minute pace) and increased the pace every couple of songs. No pain. :)

30 minutes upright bike, nice and easy. 

Adidas Supernova Glide - Teal #3 Miles: 10.00
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70 minutes upright bike 

 

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15 minutes upright bike (Kilimajaro/12/out of the saddle for 10 minutes)

6.5 miles, AP 7:47 (No pain. Surprisingly the pace felt fine. I think perhaps the TM's calibration was off.) 

400 m swim (short on time) 

Adidas Supernova Glide - Teal #3 Miles: 6.50
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60 minutes upright bike

ST:UE 

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15 minutes upright bike (Kilimanjaro/12-14)

7 miles (1 easy and then 6 with AP 7:41--different TM, just had to see. Leg is doing really well.)

600 m swim 

Adidas Supernova Glide - Teal #3 Miles: 7.00
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Gym and Subway with Rylee :) :) :) 

60 minutes upright bike (Hills plus/Around the World/7)

 

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12.5, AP 8:09

Everything felt great!!! This is a huge boost right before finals! Can I get a *Hallelujah*!!! :) 

Adidas Supernova Glide - Teal #3 Miles: 12.50
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1 mile swim -- Finals had we way stressed out. Swimming always relaxes me.

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9 miles (1 warmup, 7 w/ AP 7:33, 1 cooldown on 6% incline)

* This is the hardest I have pushed in a LONG time. Zero pain, will see how the leg feels in the morning. :) 

15 minutes upright bike 

This semester is OVER!!!! I am so relieved. It was much more difficult and time consuming that I had imagined. I feel as if I did really well on my first three finals but am worried that I really messed up on this last one. Yikes! Overall, I have learned more in these past 4 months than any other 4 months in my life (including the first four months of PT school). I feel pretty confident that if I were a PT right now that there would be above a 50% chance that I could correctly diagnose a patient's impairment. But ... I am pretty certain that patients expect more than a 50% chance. :) :) :) Also, chances are I would NOT be able to effectively treat the impairment. DANG ... guess I better stay in school for another 2.33 years. I am certain that the additional $46K I will pay over these next 28 months will guarantee that I graduate a genius!!!! :) :) :)

Adidas Supernova Glide - Teal #3 Miles: 9.00
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60 minutes upright bike (hill plus/cascades/7-14) quads were burning by the time I was done :)

1.25 mile swim, just under 45 minutes

I think I will take a nap now and then I will go mountain bike shopping when I wake up. :) :) :)

I LOVE BEING ON BREAK!!!! 

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9 miles -- all very nice and slow except for the 6 800s I threw in the middle.

A 400 m SLOW jog (11 minute pace) in between each 800. Paces for the 800s: 3:30, 3:30, 3:25, 3:25, 3:20, 3:20.

Core/lumbar stabilization exercises. 

I am pleased with how well my leg is doing. There has not been any pain and/or discomfort while running, walking, hopping, etc. for a couple of weeks now. Still is tender when I press and prod right on the exact tiny spot where the SF was though. I need to stop doing that. But I get so stinkin' curious!!!! ;)

Haven't found my mountain bike yet, and still can't believe how expensive some of them are. I keep waiting for a killer deal to present itself, but I am thinking I may just have to bite the bullet and settle for a fair deal and customer service with a smile! :) 

Adidas Supernova Glide - Teal #3 Miles: 9.00
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Gold's Gym with Rylee and then Great Harvest for a giant cinnamon roll! I love Friday mornings! :)

50 minutes upright bike (Random/7) 

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12 TM miles, AP 8:04

Usually I don't mind the TM, the gym was crowded giving me plenty of opportunity to people watch, but for some reason it was more boring than normal. Oh well.

800 m swim. One of the best things about running at the gym is being able to swim right after. Just took it nice and easy ... felt heavenly! :) 

Adidas Supernova Glide - Teal #3 Miles: 12.00
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1 mile swim

I seem to go through periods when I find it difficult to feel spiritual on Sundays. I know that this may sound counter intuitive to many of you but in an attempt to remedy that I went to the pool.

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Sprint at the gym, comfortably hard.

20K upright bike, 44:25 (random/6)

5K run, 25:37

750 m swim, ~15 minutes 

*Wonderful lunch at Fiddler's Elbow with friends. I think that there should be a quarterly luncheon planned! Anyone want to take on Luncheon Planner duties? :) 

Adidas Supernova Glide - Orange Miles: 3.10
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10 miles, AP 8:19. Set the treadmill to 7 mph and kept it there except for 1.5 miles towards the end where I bumped it up to my VO2 max pace. 

800 m swim  

Adidas Supernova Glide - Orange Miles: 10.00
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10 miles upright bike, 30:25 (Hills Plus, level 6/pushed really hard)

30 minutes easy elliptical 

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13 miles, AP 8:22 

Did the first three miles really slowly because they were playing the original Rocky in the cinema room and I wanted to watch one of my favorite film make out scenes ... so I just puttered along at a slow pace so that I could concentrate on the making out'ness!!! ;) Then I went into the main gym and begin to increase the speed each mile. That wasn't nearly as fun ... but the cinema room was blasted hot today. Dang!

Was going to swim but was just too tired.

 

Adidas Supernova Glide - Teal #3 Miles: 13.00
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Not really sure how I should translate mountain biking miles into cross training miles. I'll need to figure out a better way of doing this because I definitely have to work harder than I do on the upright bikes at the gym or on a road bike.

Anyway ...

Roughly 10 MTB miles on my new bike -- which I love!

This was my first time riding in clips ... wow!! I took three spills but only one of them drew blood. :) The spills were as follows: once trying to jump a log and twice during a super steep but short ascent (when I failed to down shift enough). With my feet clipped in I would be sliding back before I could get them loose ... then WHAM ... on the ground! (Ry was a saint not to laugh ... seeing I have been talking trash.) I kept giving it a go until I figured out what in the world I was doing. I have *a lot* of work ahead of me before the XTERRA. But other than the bitter cold ... IT WAS AWESOME!!!!! :) :) :)

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Christmas Tri with Annie and Rylee!!!!! :) :) :) Annie and I did the Olympic distance, Rylee did her own version of a sprint. :) :) :)

We did everything in the correct order today, but used the spin bikes instead of the uprights. Since the spin bikes don't keep track of mileage we decided to go for time 1:15:00. The problem with this is that I am certain that I did not push as hard as I would have if I were going for mileage. Oh well ... still SUPER fun!!!

1.5K swim: 34:xx

Spin bike: 1:15:xx

10K run: 48:32

My transitions were slow ... but I was having a ton of fun!!!! :) :) :)

Thank you again Annie and Rylee!!!!! :) :) :) 

Hope everyone had a WONDERFUL Christmas!!!! :) :) :) 

Adidas Supernova Glide - Orange Miles: 6.20
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4 mile recovery run

10 MTB miles on the Germania Dirt Path with Ry :). I am getting used to the clips and only took one spill today!!!! :) Weather was beautiful. LOVED IT!!!!! 

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1 warm up mile and then 9 with AP 8:06.

Felt like garbage this morning. Trying to figure out why. Here are the possible reasons:

1. I am getting sick (I have a headache and felt "cloudy" and a bit nauseated throughout the run -- kinda stupid that I not only kept going but that I tried to push myself.).

2. I have been eating EXTREMELY POORLY since finals. I keep telling myself that I am on break and that I will get back to my good eating habits on January 1st. I have decided that I cannot wait ... getting back to healthy foods today.

3. The mountain biking is taking more of a toll on me than I expected. My legs have felt heavy and tired.

4. The Christmas tri took more out of me than I thought and I am still recovering. :)

Really hoping it is #4!!!! :)

Hope everyone is having a wonderful week! :) 

Adidas Supernova Glide - Teal #3 Miles: 10.00
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60 minutes upright bike, ~ 15 miles (Hills plus/Around the World/6)

1 mile swim, 36:xx 

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15 miles, AP 8:16

*Did my long run today because I am mtb'ing with Ry tomorrow and doing a New Year's Eve tri with Annie on Saturday. :) 

*Ry and I are leaving for Red Rock on Monday ... so looking forward to a lot of trail runs, mountain biking and golfing! Can hardly wait!!! :) :) :) 

Adidas Supernova Glide - Pink/White Miles: 15.00
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75 minutes mtb'ing with Ry. :)

SO SO SO much fun!!! I think the mountain bike purchase was one of the best purchases Ry and I have ever made. I LOVE mountain biking!!! Remarkably, I did not fall one single time!!! I got my flu shot today, but I am fairly certain that I was injected with a magical "anti-falling mad mountain biking skillz"  elixir instead (and for a mere 20 bucks)!! Ry had two wipe-outs! He should have been injected!  (Of course he takes far more risks than I do so would have needed a much higher potency, probably 40 bucks worth.) Sure enough we hit the spots where I usually fall 5 or 6 times today. No problems! I am pretty sure that I have moved up one notch on the awesomeness meter!!! ;)

.71 miles running on my TM (making it possible for me to hit exactly 1800 running miles for the year after the 10K I will run as part of tomorrow's tri). :)

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Happy New Year's Eve Olympic Tri with Annie (while Rylee and Nic played a little b-ball)!!! :) 

Seriously ... name another sister-in-law tradition than is cooler than doing an Olympic tri every holiday? I am SO SO SO lucky to have the coolest SIL in the entire world!!! :) :) :)

spin bike: ~40K/24.8 miles, 1:15:xx

run: 10K/6.2 miles, 47:03 (very happy with this time)

swim: 1.5K/.94 miles, 34:xx

 

*** HAPPY NEW YEAR'S EVE EVERYONE!!! HAVE FUN!!!! *** 

 

 

Adidas Supernova Glide - Teal #3 Miles: 6.20
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74.8141.7010.7012.00124.50263.71
Adidas Supernova Glide - Pink/White Miles: 20.00Adidas Supernova Glide - Teal #3 Miles: 95.20Adidas Supernova Glide - Orange Miles: 19.30
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