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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Unaided and (some) outdated!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:)

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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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Tue, Mar 06, 2012

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
5.00	0.00	5.00	0.00	10.00

After scrubbing black permanent marker off of 5 major walls and my cream colored couch this morning, I went to the treadmill to get my game on.

Ran the first 5 miles at 8:00 pace then tried to simulate the 10 mile course again by turning up the incline to 3% at 6:53 pace for miles 6 and 7.. I felt surprisingly pretty tired at this point but knew it would get better after the incline. With 3 miles left to go, dropped the incline back to 0 and ran miles 8,9,10 in 6:30, 6:20, 6:00 with a sprint in the last 400 at 11mph. Last 3 miles in 18:50. I tried to imagine race day- running to a first place finish. Hopefully all goes in my favor this weekend.

Saucony Kinvara Miles: 5.00	Brooks Ravenna 2 Miles: 5.00

Comments

From allie on Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 16:06:35 from 161.38.218.168

check out those last three miles! you were really moving. very nice. looks like you're all set for saturday -- i think another win is in the works...

i must say, you are probably the best comment-leaver on this blog. thanks for the kind words about my silly little marathon. i appreciate the fact that you even took the time to read those extra long-winded paragraphs. really -- i value those comments a lot and i revisit them when i get in a funk. thank you. let's run again soon.

From Chad Robinson on Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 16:22:03 from 50.73.39.89

Did you simulate lots of drafting? Nice workout and good luck on Saturday.

From Tara on Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 17:51:08 from 75.169.154.165

NO CHAD!! I'm saving that for race day:)

Allie- for some reason that means a lot to me that I am a good comment leaver:) thank you, can't wait to run with you again!

From Kam on Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 17:42:55 from 174.23.222.98

Drafting. That's priceless. But still, Tara, you could secure some mannequins and place them around your treadmill so you could simulate running in traffic. Toward the end of your workouts, you could "inadvertently" elbow said mannequins and knock them to the ground to practice your other race moves.

From Andrea on Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 17:50:56 from 67.177.21.60

Definitely start working on the elbowing!

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