| Location: Cottonwood Heights,UT,USA Member Since: May 18, 2011 Gender: Female Goal Type: Local Elite Running Accomplishments: Personal Records
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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Unaided and (some) outdated!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 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. Favorite Blogs: |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 175.16 | 11.50 | 6.00 | 5.50 | 198.16 |
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| Brooks Ghost 6 MINT Miles: 109.57 | Purple Kinvara Miles: 18.10 | Nike Zoom Miles: 6.50 | Gray Go2 Miles: 6.00 | Brooks Ghost 6 PINK Miles: 45.75 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 1.50 | 0.00 | 9.00 |
| Beautiful morning! I stopped sereral times to look at the scenery on Davis Blvd. I "raced" a tall man running on the other side of the street for the first several miles. I'd stop and he would pass me, I'd work to pass him back and we leap frogged till he eventually turned around. Overall a slower pace today. Picked up the last 1.5, mostly downhill, for some leg turnover. Felt low on energy today. I think it has something to do with the bakery items I have enjoyed as if late. Mmmm German chocolate everything.
Also, my all time favorite trainers are Brooks Ghost. I need to buy 13 pairs to have on hand. What does everyone else like? Burt?
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| Brooks Ghost 6 MINT Miles: 9.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| Early LPT with Andy. I felt like I was dragging from the start. I'm surprised we hit under 8 at all. Must've been Andy's springy feet. 7:42ap.
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| Brooks Ghost 6 MINT Miles: 8.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 15.25 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 17.25 |
| 6:30AM- 55° at the start. Met up with Kam at the Mandarin on 900 N. We ran North on 400 E, until it ended., just pass Parish Lane . We ended up doing a couple ~mp mile repeats down the hill with a jog back up. I talked him into some flat parts to incorporate. We headed north again on the west part of town for a few miles into Farmington. We turned around and headed back east up to Freedom Hills. The climb was slightly torturous. We ran several hilly laps around Freedom hills, then headed south on Main Street, connected back on 400 E, to the start. I took a GU around half way, which was helpful since I was was running low on energy from the start. The scenery was beautiful and the weather was great! 8:18ap
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| Brooks Ghost 6 MINT Miles: 17.25 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 9.10 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.10 |
| 6AM- Nice morning run with Andy and Kam around Bountiful pond and LPT. Gorgeous morning! 8:07ap
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| Purple Kinvara Miles: 9.10 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| Fun run up Mueller Park with Allie. Snow, hail, glaciers and such. Good memories!
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| Brooks Ghost 6 MINT Miles: 10.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 4.50 |
| Woman issues, little running lately. Pulled off a tiny bit of speed today to prep for tomorrow's 5k.
TM- 4x400@ 1:28, 1:23, 1:20, 1:17
Felt rough.
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Dodo 5k (3.02 Miles) 00:19:10, Place overall: 1, Place in age division: 1 | | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 2.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.75 | 6.00 |
| Fun race at Sugarhouse park. It was about as hilly as I expected, but the wind didn't help. Sure was nice at the back, though. I tasted blood at the end, so I guess that means it was a good effort. Ran about what I predicted for today. Garmin showed 3.02mi course.
A fellow USU allumni took first for men- I missed his name. I never knew him beacuse he's 7 years my junior. Where's my cane.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 2.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 |
| Busy day at work, but busier when I got home. 2 miles was all I could squeeze with Steve, but I made sure they were hilly. Felt fine today.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 3.50 | 1.50 | 0.75 | 9.25 |
| 6:00AM- Met Andy at the Legacy Parkway Trail head.
We never plan what to do, we just run and keep up with each other's pace. Maybe one of these days we'll start Tempo Tuesday's again, but I'm in no hurry. Plus I like blindly running and talking about myself the whole time, so it can't be too much of an effort.
Nothing spectacular, but for a lackadaisical run, we were kinda zippy today. It must have been the earlier daylight. Plus I drank a V8 Energy drink. Those make me crazy. I had to do something, I was thinking Andy was going to bring his springy legs and that I was going to be tired from Saturday. I felt relaxed and didn't feel like the pace was pushed too much at the end, until the last .25, then I suddenly wanted to throw up.
9.2 miles, 7:14 AP
8:03, 7:41, 7:26, 7:18, 7:15, 7:08, 7:06, 6:50, 6:32, 5:51 (.20)
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| Brooks Ghost 6 MINT Miles: 9.25 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 |
| 3 easy miles with stroller and Emily.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 11.70 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 13.70 |
| 5:30AM- It was 57 degrees and the first day I've worn shorts/T-shirt! What a beautiful morning it was today. I stayed up late attending an American Idol party and ended up getting 4 hours of sleep, but thankfully I felt fine today. I met Andy on LPT and we talked about going easier than usual. We seemed to ease into our regular pace anyway. We took the trail to Farmington overpass and connected onto Main Street for some rollers. Miles 6-7 we had a couple stops for a drink and to play with Andy's new watch. I want that watch. Then we made our way back to Pages LN trailhead. 7:38ap
Now I get to cultivate my flower beds. Every time I bring out the rototiller, I think of my dad rototilling our yard with a baby chick in his front pocket. I guess they were bonding. Anyway, he leaned over and rototilled the chick. Although I have offered my condolences, it still makes me giggle, because I'm sometimes a bad person.
8:14, 7:53, 7:50, 7:52, 7:46, 8:08, 8:03, 7:14, 7:29, 7:25, 7:33, 7:18, 7:09, 6:54 (.67)
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| Brooks Ghost 6 PINK Miles: 14.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| 10 miles with Karen down Main Street.
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| Brooks Ghost 6 MINT Miles: 10.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 4.80 | 0.00 | 1.50 | 0.00 | 6.30 |
| Gosh, that was fun today! Around lunch time, I met up with Scott W. to run Mt. Wire in Sugarhouse area. He mentioned it would be a good recovery run for him, so I expected an easy run. We ran a bit, but mostly hiked up ~2500ft to the top in 1.75 miles. He kept talking while I gasped for air at a literal crawling pace. My calves started burning about 10 minutes into it, so he let me stop and catch my breath stretch for a minute.
The view was amazing at the top! I've never been anywhere like it, but I've only ran the Twin Peaks in the past. We decided to take a more technical route back, climbing (literally) up to Red Butte. He kept talking about rattlers in the rocks and I kept picturing them jumping out of the holes like Wac-a-Mole. We caught a couple pics up top. I was in awe of the ground we had covered! We then went to a ledge called the "living room." We found a group of people casually taking in the view. We finally made our way down to the bottom in about a 1:50:00 for a 10k round trip. A little harder than I expected, I need to work on hills more deliberatly.
Mt Wire was fun! The weather was awesome, the company was great and the scenery was outstanding!
 
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| Brooks Ghost 6 PINK Miles: 6.50 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.00 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.00 |
| 6AM- LPT with Andy. 9 miles, 7:41AP. We were both tired this morning. He had an awesome training week last week, and I was just sleep deprived. We took it easy then picked up the last two miles at 6:39, 6:27.
I just purchased the new Garmin 620. I can't wait to use it and stew over meaningless running data!!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-NwHNHNXsg0
The acting is really good in this.^
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| Purple Kinvara Miles: 9.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Day off to sleep in and clean the house. Legs are tight from Monday's trail run.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 |
| 1 mile to test out new Garmin. I turned around to study the contents of the manual a bit further.
2 miles with Stephen on a warm summer-y-kind-of night.
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| Brooks Ghost 6 PINK Miles: 1.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 9.80 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.80 |
| AM- Nice morning run on Davis. 7.3 mi @ 8:25ap
PM- 2.5mi with Steve.
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| Brooks Ghost 6 PINK Miles: 7.50 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 13.03 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 13.03 |
| 7:00 AM- 55º, 75% humidity, cloudy, little wind. Gorgeous morning run in Farmington back country on dirt and gravel. It almost looked like an extension of LPT, but not paved and much more scenic. I'd run it everyday if I could find it again. Met up with Angie B, Cynthia F., and Katie T. at Harmon's for a nice 13 miler. Great company and route! 7:45ap.
I have been very satisfied with my new Garmin 620. It's still learning about me each run. My first run, Yesterday, sent me a conrats message with an new 5k estimated time of 24 minutes, up to the marathon at 3:45. Overnight, I have improved my 5k estimate to 21:00 and marathon at 3:25. Even my VO2 max went from 44 to 48 overnight. If this improvement continues at this rate, I expect to have an OTQ by next week;)
PM- More rototilling!
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| Brooks Ghost 6 MINT Miles: 13.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 3.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| BST to Waterfall
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.00 | 0.00 | 1.50 | 0.00 | 8.50 |
| Happy Memorial Day! That doesn't really go together, but hope your day is filled with friends, family and good memories.
9am- this morning I met up with a local ladies group on Dave's Boulevard. Mostly ran with Holly and Emily and have good conversations about Boston, fueling, Lululemon sports bras, and our ambitions for the year. 7 miles, 8:20ap. Ran 1.5 home, downhill at 6:30 ap.
After I got home, I spent the rest of the day gardening. Almost done.
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| Brooks Ghost 6 PINK Miles: 8.50 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.25 |
| 6am- Met Andy at LPT . Both of us were tired from home improvements the day before. Took it easy. 8.25 miles, 7:45ap.
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| Brooks Ghost 6 PINK Miles: 8.25 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 2.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 |
| AM-Lots of gardening and sun burning.
PM- 2 mile hike with the youth
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.16 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.16 |
| 5:30Am- Met Craig L., and Scott W. at the Capitol. We ran to three different towers and Ensign Peak. We made our way down pretty quick, hitting 6:30's on the downhill stretches. Perfect weather and so many flowers! I loved it.
V02 max updated to 54 and my race times are getting pretty close to spot on. I continue to be in awe of this little electronic wrapped around my wrist.
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| Brooks Ghost 6 MINT Miles: 10.25 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 13.32 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 15.32 |
| 15.32 with Andy into Farmington on LPT. Picked up the last couple miles in 7:06,6:36. Felt tired at the end. 7:48ap.
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| Brooks Ghost 6 MINT Miles: 15.32 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| Roses are red, violets are blue, I drove to work wearing just one shoe.
No miles today, I'm tired!
8:30PM: I lied. 7.5 miles with Karen to the waterfall. Lots of hill climbing, slower, but good time.
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| Brooks Ghost 6 MINT Miles: 7.50 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 175.16 | 11.50 | 6.00 | 5.50 | 198.16 |
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| Brooks Ghost 6 MINT Miles: 109.57 | Purple Kinvara Miles: 18.10 | Nike Zoom Miles: 6.50 | Gray Go2 Miles: 6.00 | Brooks Ghost 6 PINK Miles: 45.75 |
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