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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Unaided and (some) outdated!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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Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	0.00

Fri, Mar 30, 2012

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
8.00	6.00	0.00	0.00	14.00

Note to self, running in the dark feels like you are running in place, the first half of my splits indicate that as well:) I got up extra early today to fit in a longer run. Although I had a head lamp and LCD shoe lights, I felt like I was running in place inside a black hole. My eyes never adjusted until the sun began to rise. Loped around the first 7 miles around 8:24 pace. Took a GU and pushed the pace the last 10k in around 43 mins. Felt very relaxed. Splits were nothing special but had some effort behind them. The first mile was a climb and the rest were rolling...8:12, 7:16, 7:35, 7:03, 7:08, 7:08. Knees are sore.

Mizzuno Nexus 5 Miles: 14.00

Comments

From allie on Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 15:00:01 from 97.126.222.108

nice run, tara. running in the dark can be tricky...

i want some shoe lights!

From runningafterbabies on Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 16:18:45 from 98.202.241.96

Shoe lights sound awesome. It must be really dark where you live. No street lights?

From Burt on Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 17:07:32 from 72.223.93.158

allie - do you have a man crush on Tara?

From Maika on Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 17:14:53 from 166.250.10.228

My favorite is when cars drive toward you with their brights on to make sure you're not a fully-dressed, two legged deer that is going to suddenly jump in front of them.

Nice run Tara!

From Tara on Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 12:50:47 from 159.212.71.77

No Burt, I have a man crush on her.

From Tara on Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 12:52:01 from 159.212.71.77

BTW, I bought the shoe lights at Target I believe. They are for the spokes on a bike but fit very nice on my shoe laces. They cost $2 each.

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