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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
25.900.0025.90
Nike Lunarracer Miles: 9.40Brooks ST3 Miles: 6.10Brooks Adrenaline Trail Miles: 10.40
Night Sleep Time: 34.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 34.50
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
9.400.009.40

Easy run + 10 x 10 sec. hill sprints + level 3 shred.

7:17 am, 36°F, 52% humidity, wind 6 SSE.

I've got the day off work today, so I got to run with Michelle. She wanted to run 6 miles and I wanted to run 8 or so, so I took the shortest route I could from my house to her house, which is about 1.4 miles. We ran 6 miles together, and then I ran the same route back to my house, stopping when I was almost home to do the hill sprints.

It was fun running and talking with Michelle this morning, as it always is. And she did a great job picking up the pace at the end.

I've got a Garmin 205 and the Michelle's neighbor, the other Michelle, has a Garmin 405. The other Michelle wasn't with us today, but I've noticed times when all three of us run together, that Michelle's Garmin 405 says that we've gone slightly farther than my Garmin 205 says we have. That seems to consistently be the case. And so this morning we did the 6 miles based on what my Garmin said, and it was a little bit farther than Michelle has gone when running the same route based on the other Michelle's Garmin. I don't know why it's like that.

AP: 9:44. Splits: 1.4 miles to Michelle's house @ 9:52 pace, mile splits with Michelle - 9:43, 9:25, 9:38, 9:34, 9:32, 9:19, back to the hill sprint hill - 9:22, .18 @ 9:08 pace. Pace on hill sprints: 6:20, 7:24, 6:20, 6:28, 6:34, 6:26, 7:04, 6:27, 6:32, 6:00.

Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day everyone!

Incidentally, I didn't purposely make Garmin 205 a link. That happened automagically.

Nike Lunarracer Miles: 9.40
Night Sleep Time: 7.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 7.50
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I felt good on my run Monday morning except for a little tightness in my left calf from running 4 miles in the VFFs last Friday. A couple of hours after my run, my left knee started hurting fairly significantly on the outside - ITB area. So I didn't run or do any exercise yesterday and was quite depressed all day about the knee.

I did some stretching during the day and iced the knee last night and it felt better this morning than it did yesterday, though it's not 100%.

Under normal circumstances, I would have run 8 miles today and done the shred. Because of the knee, I decided not to run again today, but with the extra time that gave me, I did my Jillian Michael's No More Trouble Zones video instead of the shred because it is almost an hour long, while the shred is only 20 minutes. Also, this video focuses on strength instead of doing a mixture of strength and cardio like the shred does. I didn't get up quite early enough to do the whole video before the drive to seminary, so I had to pause it in the middle and drive to seminary, and then finish it when I got home. There was only one exercise in the whole thing that hurt my knee, and I only did it for about a minute.

I've got an appointment with my ART guy this afternoon. I'm hoping with rest, stretching, ice, and ART, I can nip this thing in the bud and get back to running soon. On February 1 I start a marathon training plan for the Newport Oregon marathon. I'd rather take time off now than once I start that training plan. I hope I can get this issue resolved by then.

Night Sleep Time: 6.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.00
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I went to my Active Release Technique (ART) guy yesterday afternoon and he really worked my legs. My knee is feeling okay today, but I decided to hold off running for one more day. So I went to the gym at my office and stuck needles into my eyes did the elliptical for a half hour and the bike for a half hour. I did not work terrifically hard on either one of them.

When I pointed out the location of my pain to my ART guy, he said that it was low for the IT band. And so now I'm thinking that maybe my problem wasn't the IT band, but something related to the calf soreness I acquired when I foolishly ran 4 miles in the VFFs last Friday. I think I'll try a short run tomorrow.

Night Sleep Time: 6.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.00
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6.100.006.10

Easy run + level 3 shred.

6:50 am, 30°F, 66% humidity, winds calm, cloudy.

I flirted with the snooze alarm for over an hour this morning. My kids don't have school today and it turns out that my need to go to work, when you take away the need to get kids to school, is insufficient impetus to get me out of bed in the morning. I finally got up when my husband called me when he got to work at 6:20, as is his habit.

My knee felt fine until the last mile and then it just felt a little fatigued. I plan to run tomorrow, but just a normal length run, not a long run. Then Sunday is off, and I'll take a relatively easy week next week before starting formal marathon training the week after that.

AP: 9:50. Splits: 9:57, 9:59, 9:55, 9:41, 9:35, 9:54.

Brooks ST3 Miles: 6.10
Night Sleep Time: 7.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 7.50
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
10.400.0010.40

Easy run.

7:15 am, 24-35°F, 40% humidity, wind 5 SW.

We had a little miscommunication about the meeting place this morning. As a result, Ali, who ran with us last week and twisted her ankle, didn't run with us this morning. So it was me and the two Michelles and we ran on the streets rather than the trail. I further messed things up by pausing my watch and while waiting to cross a street and then neglecting to restart it until over 2 miles later. So I'm not posting splits today because they're messed up. And I had to use mapmyrun.com to figure out my total distance and a pace calculator to get my average pace, so I just have imprecise stats today. I'm figuring my average pace as about 9:48.

In any case, I ran 1.4 miles to the meeting spot, then ran with the Michelles, and then ran about 1.5 home. When we were almost to where I split from the Michelles at the end, Michelle #1 wanted to pick up the pace and boy did she sprint to the end. I couldn't keep up with her.

My knee felt a little strange but I wouldn't really call it pain.

Brooks Adrenaline Trail Miles: 10.40
Night Sleep Time: 7.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 7.50
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
25.900.0025.90
Nike Lunarracer Miles: 9.40Brooks ST3 Miles: 6.10Brooks Adrenaline Trail Miles: 10.40
Night Sleep Time: 34.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 34.50
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