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Location:

Littleton,CO,USA

Member Since:

Aug 04, 2008

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

I've run off and on (more off than on) throughout my adult life. Most recently I started running in May of 2007.

5K PR: Colder Bolder in December 2009 in 22:50.

10k PR: Bolder Boulder in May 2009 in 48:06.13.

1/2 Marathon PR: Canyonlands Half-Marathon in March 2010 in 1:43:20.

Marathon PR: Newport (Oregon) Marathon in June 2010 in 3:42:17.

I have completed two full marathons.

Short-Term Running Goals:

Get back to consistent running.

Long-Term Running Goals:

Sub 3:30 marathon.

Personal:

I grew up in Utah, but live in Colorado now.

I am married and am a working mother of four children, ages 9-19.

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Nike Lunarracer Lifetime Miles: 284.91
Brooks Adrenaline Trail Lifetime Miles: 574.62
Brooks Green Silence Lifetime Miles: 681.13
Brooks Adrenaline 10 (2) Lifetime Miles: 424.52
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
5.250.005.25

This was my one and only run on the moving ship. And it was actually my last run of the cruise. I guess I got lazy after this day.

My Garmin was useless while the ship was moving. I wore it so that I could use it to count laps, but that's about all it was good for. The wind was fierce. One direction I was going straight into the wind, the other direction it was at my back, but was blowing my hair out of my pony tail and into my face. I had put on sunscreen, but I was sweating like crazy and the sunscreen and sweat were running into my eyes. At one point, I stopped and went in to get a towel to wipe my eyes.

Just for kicks, here are the map and the pace chart for this run. The map really shows what the ship did, not what I did. The pace chart is kind of funny because it shows where I'm going with the ship and where I'm going against the direction of the ship. I was going into the wind when I was going with the ship and had the wind behind me when going against the ship, but the direction of the ship had a bigger effect on my pace from the view point of the Garmin, than the wind did. Though my true pace was more effected by the wind.

That low point after the 6th peak is where I went inside to get a towel.

We spent this day on the beach in Cozumel, Mexico. It was a lot of fun. It was a very nice beach and they had all paddle boats and canoes you could take out on the water. They had a water trampoline, which we didn't try because it was too crowded. But they also had this think called an ice berg, which was big white inflated thing with handles on one side. It was anchored a ways from shore.You could climb up it and then slide down the other side. My boys had a good time with that, but I didn't try it.

They had a little swimming pool with fresh water and my daughter spent most of her time there.

The kids really enjoyed this excursion. They had never been to a beach before. But despite my best efforts at putting suncreen on everyone, we all got a little sunburned.

Brooks Adrenaline Miles: 5.25
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
Comments
From auntieem on Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 13:46:30 from 67.182.145.8

HaHa, love the map of your run! I can't believe that you ran 5.25 miles around and around a ship. I hope that others on board didn't think you were too nuts. Although I'm starting to think that all runners are a little bit nuts...

From JD on Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 14:05:54 from 32.178.13.208

That map gave me a good laugh. Thanks for posting this.

Good run by the way. Not an easy run with the wind and the laps and all.

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