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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Unaided and (some) outdated!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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We came home from our trip last night from Twin Falls. I never got a chance to run due to a hectic schedule.  I found myself taking occasional deep breaths to catch my thoughts and sanity over the weekend. Steve has been traveling for perspective jobs around various hospitals. The recruiter had put some time in the iternary for a tour of the area school district. The "tour" ended up being a meeting with the school district super intendant, principal, and district HR manager for a Q&A. We had nothing but we tried with deferred attempts, so we deferred to the kids. They had great questions like, "Do you have fun play ground equipment?" "Is your school lunch good?" "Is it healthy food or good food?" How many kids would be in my class?" "Where's the bathroom." And finally, "Are we almost done?" It's alway's fun traveling with kids. Anyone know much about Twin Falls?

Easy miles with Andy and Becky this morning on LPT. It was cold and dark, I could even see my breath. Came home and ran 10x20 secs @ 5:00 with 30 sec jog. Nice to get legs moving again since Saturday. I've caught some mild cold symptoms. I wonder if most of it is from racing on Saturday morning in the cold. I've been coughing ever since, but it seems to be dying down. Should be fine with some Emergen C.

I received my STG bib #5014. I was glad to see the number where it was. It seems mentally there is less pressure to bring that number down than to be ranked high and not let it slip. I think top 20 will be pretty competitive this year. I even think the top 6 will be under 2:50. Something that has not happened since that weird year when like the top ~20 women were under that. Anyone else notice that?

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Comments
From Andrea on Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 11:41:27 from 72.37.171.52

If you are referring to 2007, that was because St. George was still considered a legal course to qualify for the Olympic Trials. After that year, they put restrictions on the amount of drop in part because the people that qualified at St. George generally ran 10 minutes slower at the Olympic Trials.

From Tara on Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 12:12:46 from 75.169.139.248

Okay Andrea, that makes total sense. I wondered if the course short that year or if they had a timing issue. None of those seemed likely though, especially for STG. Your explanation puts it altogether. That would be sweet if you could qualify on that course still. Except you'd see this one distant group in the back of the race, trailing behind by aprox. 10 mins.:)

From Andy on Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 12:15:02 from 199.190.170.24

2007 being the last time St. George could be used for OTQ explains all of the sub 2:50 women but there was something else in the air that year. All times from top to bottom were exceptionally fast (avg finish time 5+ minutes faster than usual and 202 sub 3 finishers compared to 130-140 in a typical year). Anecdotally, that is when I ran my marathon PR in a time that I still don't think is possible for me. I think that this is going to be another one of those "special" years.

From Burt on Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 12:30:37 from 71.216.109.214

Wasn't there a show about Twin Falls? No, that was Dawson's Creek. How did I know that? I must be a middle aged man. Don't worry about all the other runners. Just worry about yourself and run your own race. To think about how others will do is a sign of weakness.

From AngieB on Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 12:41:11 from 174.251.17.52

Ya this yr is going to be smoking fast! I bet the top 20 women are all sub 3.

From Tara on Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 13:23:47 from 75.169.139.248

Andy, you're legit no matter what you say. I also can't stop saying, "Anecdotally" to myself. Tourettes, even.

Also, be careful with that kind of language. You're going to cause Burt to break out the Oxford Dictionary.

Angie- Yeah, I think the top 15 or so usually all go under, maybe more? I need to find the results that aren't alphabetical! That's no help.

Burt- Stop talking about my weaknesses! Besides, I have none.

From Andy on Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 13:27:30 from 199.190.170.24

Go to http://www.marathonguide.com/races/racedetails.cfm?MIDD=57131005 for non-alphabetical results.

From allie on Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 22:44:55 from 97.126.215.90

5014. jolly great numbah.

tara, dear. i hope your taper week is going well. it's too bad you need birthdays to do bib homework, eh?

i know something about twin falls. james and i ate at the twin falls chili's in july and it was the most memorable worst meal of my life. other than that, the falls are pretty.

burt's advice is sound, although hanging self-portraits on your office door is a sign of weakness.

From Burt on Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 06:20:16 from 174.26.209.74

Having two Athlinks profiles is a sign of superiority.

From JulieC on Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 22:44:56 from 63.224.112.230

I disagree...time will tell..we r gonna see a lot of hypothermia. Not as fast due to low temps. Unless an amazing tail wind. Some of us are estatic about the 28 degree starting line. Master women love the cold :-) watch out skinny runners! Brrr ! U should be good tara u are pure muscle.

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