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Location:

Cottonwood Heights,UT,USA

Member Since:

May 18, 2011

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

Personal Records

Aided

5k-17:01 (Halloween Half 2011)

10K-36:06 (Halloween Half 2011)

Half- 1:22 (Halloween Half/Des News/HC 2011/2013)

30k- 2:06:49 (SGM 2013)

Marathon- 3:07:18 (TOU 2011)

Unaided and (some) outdated!

400M- 1:03 (HS 2000)

800M-2:23 (HS 2000)

1500M- 4:45 (USU 2001)

3000M- 10:33 (USU 2001)

3200M- 11:24 (HS 2000)

5k- 18:10 (USU 2001)

10k-39:36 (Classic 2013)

30k- 2:09:16 (WRC 2012)

50 miler- 9:46:43 (TNF 2015)

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

2019 Tenitive Race Schedule

4/15 Boston Marathon

7/24 Deseret News 10k

 

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

I love training with others both on road and trail. I also find benefits of running solo when I need to focus and regroup.

Fun fact: Although I prefer to run outside, I don't mind the treadmill for pace accountability and for the blind assumption that I can run really fast. I have a lot of secret treadmill PR's at 0% incline:) 

Personal:

 

 

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I am a Mormon

 

I am married to a supportive and driven husband. Together we enjoy geocaching, hiking, camping, reading and playing games with our three rambunctious children.

Aside from running, I am a homemaker and a Mental Health Therapist. Running has given me the ability to better concert my energies between my family, faith and friends. 

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Thu, Jan 29, 2015
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
2.504.001.001.008.50

I went into this workout not giving it much credit,  but it ended up feeling harder than I thought it would be. Christi from the blog, who recommended this plan, warned me of this! Felt harder than the past few weeks of consistent paced tempos at a similar pace. 

2.5 wu/ cd

Incline @ .5%

6mi progressive @42:20, 7:03ap (7:30-6:30)

Progressive tempos are still my favorite type of workouts! Like if I could marry them, I would.

Purple Kinvara Miles: 8.50
Comments
From Burt on Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 12:14:37 from 174.17.93.14

You didn't believe her, did you? Tara and progressive tempos sitting in a tree...

From James on Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 18:18:00 from 69.58.89.84

Nice run!

From Toby on Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 20:41:37 from 74.81.235.87

Nicely done Tara! You are going to kill it at Boston!

From Christi on Sun, Feb 01, 2015 at 19:35:54 from 73.26.14.164

Ha! It's so true.. Workouts look easy on paper and then you do them and the effort is much harder than you would expect! Hang in there! I believe in the program but I can promise you probably won't feel great most of the time! It is hard! Good workout today!

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