| Location: Cottonwood Heights,Ut,USA Member Since: May 17, 2008 Gender: Female Goal Type: Marathon Finish Running Accomplishments: Pony Express 50 miler 2009 13:19
*** 50K PR is 7:11 Red Mountain 50K 2010
Red Mountain 50k 2008
Goblin Valley 50K (twice)
Antelope Island 50k
24 hours of Moab (dropped out at 42 miles)
Antelope Island 25K
*** Marathon PR is 4:50 (St. George)
14 St. George Marathons
Portland Marathon
2 Ogden Marathons
2 Park City Marathons
Top of Utah
*** Half Marathon PR is 2:18 (Bryce Canyon)
Hobble Creek Half
Provo River Half
Salt Lake City Half
Bryce Canyon Half
Painters Half Short-Term Running Goals:
I did it!!! Pony Express 50 miler!! 13:19 ! Oct. 16, 2009
2011 Race Calendar: Feb. Aloha Race - Honolulu April Red Mountain 30K April SL Running Co. 5K May Running with Angels 5K
July Bryce Canyon Half Marathon
Aug. Park City Half Marathon Oct. St. George Marathon Sept. Little Grand Canyon Half Marathon Provo Halloween Half Marathon
Nov. Mesquite Half Marathon
2012 Race Calendar Jan New Years Revolution Race at Oval (14 miles) April Red Mountain 30K July Bryce Canyon Half Marathon Aug. Park City Half Marathon Oct. St. George Marathon Oct. Halloween Half Marathon Nov. Mesquite Half Marathon Dec. Honolulu Marathon
Long-Term Running Goals: Stay fit enough to run marathons all thru my life
Personal: I started running at age 40 (14 years ago!) I am married to Harold, he is a super supportive husband and we enjoy running and biking the trails along the Wasatch Front together. Between us we have 7 children and 9 grandchildren. I am really having fun trying new races in scenic parts of Utah, I am a newbie in the ultrarunning world, I am slow, but love everything about it! I have a lot to learn,but I am enjoying the journey. Favorite Blogs: |
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| | ran outside today. | Add Comment |
| | really wanted to do a long run outside, but the storm was bad, had to settle for 5 treadmill miles.
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| | 6 miles on the Porter Rockwell trail this morning with Ardie and then 5 miles on Wasatch around noon. It sure feels good to be outside! I just signed up for the Park City Half, Bryce Canyon Half and the Mesquite Half, I am hoping Harold will be up for the Little Grand Canyon Half, I better check with him before I sign up. That would be my one "new" race for the year. Of course I am already signed up for Red Mountain and St. George, should be a fun year!
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| | 2 treadmill miles and Jackie's strength training video. I just signed up for the Little Grand Canyon Half, so this year I have a total of 4 half marathons, one 30K and one marathon. I think that will be it, but you never know what might tempt me.
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| | I ran up to the mouth of BCC and met up with a fellow St. George 10 year club member, he remembered me from the banquet two years ago and I couldn't remember him at all. I really am forgetful. His name was Clark Jolley. He told me I lived by Butler Park, yep, that's me. | Add Comment |
| | It was cold this morning, went and did 4 miles at the gym. Tomorrow I plan to run from my house to Liberty Park, I will be jumping into the SLC Marathon course, should be fun. | Comments(1) |
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I ran from my house to Liberty Park, about 10 miles of my run was on the SL marathon course. It was fun to be with the crowd. I felt great, no soreness at all. I am a little more optimistic about Red Mountain next week. I am real excited about running in the warm sunny weather, and getting out of the city!
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| | It is race week! I am so excited to kick off the running season in the beautiful Red mountains!!!! 3 miles, and a nice walk with Odee this morning. Feeling great! | Comments(1) |
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Red Mountain 30K (19 Miles) 03:59:00 | |
I was waiting for the race results, but they are not up, so I am going to go ahead with a quick race report anyway. This year I decided not to do the 50K, as I have done the last two times. The 30K was perfect for me for the first real race of the season. Red Mountain is my favorite race of the year. It is small, friendly and the course is beautiful. I absolutely love the race directors, they always make me feel like a queen. They came up to me at the expo gave me a hug and a gift certificate for a massage and a hat and told me how happy they were to see me. They are so cute, it is a race I plan to do every year. They had Krissy Moehl speaking, who just broke the R2R2R record Tues. and has won several other ultras. She was really good. I got to see Kelli, her friend Wendy, and my old college roommate Karen Boothe and her friend. They were all doing the 50K, I did not feel like I was left out at all, the idea of moving down to the 30K was really exciting to me. 19 miles is about where I feel like crud when I run a marathon, so this length sounded perfect. Harold and I spent the night at my cousin's house. I was really excited about the race and couldn't sleep, so I read from about 2:30am to 4:30 and then got up and got ready for the race. Harold drove me up to the Ivins Park to get on the bus and then he went home to shower and get Odee. I road up with a cute gal from SL who had not run this race before and told her a little about the course. At the starting line I got more hugs from race directors and we said the pledge of allegiance, I talked to Wendy for a few minutes and then we were off. It was so beautiful up there, I went out at a nice slow pace, I was in the back only a few people behind me. I kept a comfortable pace all morning long, a 10:30 to 12:30 min. pace for most of the time. I had Harold's classical music playlist on my ipod, it was so awesome to have this beautiful music and the spectacular scenery. I never felt sore or tired until the very end. The aid-stations were great, good variety of food and drinks and very helpful friendly volunteers. I told Harold it would probably take me 4 and half hours, but I realized that if I kept up my pace I could break 4 hours, so I pushed a little harder and the last 3 miles I passed about 5 people and felt really strong. I hope my garmin is right, like I said the results are not up so I will update my report as soon as it is up. My garmin read 3:59!!!
I kept expecting to see Kelli and Krissy run past me, I told Harold, wouldn't it be cool if Kelli came in first, she is going to be the next ultra super star, she won her first 50 mile race, a couple of weeks ago at the Buffalo run, and I know we will be seeing her on magazine covers and speaking at race expos. She is so fast, and such a great person. She is always helping and encouraging others, myself included. She paced me at Painters and then came back to run me in at Goblin Valley. She is a running angel. I have an adorable picture of her running in with all her kids around her, I hope we can figure out how to post it here, it is always hard to figure that out. Anyway, what I wanted to say was Kelli and Krissy never ran past me, and I couldn't figure out why, I saw an ambulance go up the course and had a sick feeling. After finishing the race Harold and I sat with Wendy and Kelli's family and waited for Kelli. She came in about 20 min. or so after I finished and told us what had happened. Someone tampered with the course and changed the signs and diverted about 12 of the fastest runners and sent them on a wild goose chase and they ran an extra 4 or 5 miles. By the time Kelli got back on the right course, she realized her time was going to be off, so she didn't push as hard. I think I have that right, but you will have to read her report for the full details. It made me sick to think of all those runners lost on the trail because of some prankster. There was an article in the Spectrum about it and the police are investigating it. Not only do I feel sorry for the runners, but for the race directors who worked so hard to put on such a great race. It was really a bad deal all the way around. I had a great race, loved every minute of it. This is how I like to run, nice and easy and finish feeling good. Thank you Red Mountain for another fun race.
Look at little Emma out in front!! She is adorable!
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| | speed work on the treadmill | Add Comment |
| | Ran a free 5K put on by SL Running! It has been a long time since I have done a short race, boy they are tough, not enough miles to get into an easy lope. It was fun running with Andrea, Pete, Misty and Maurine. I am going to do more of these, great speed work out. I hit my garmin at 3.1 and was at 34:02. It would be nice to see how fast I can go by the fall. Great morning! Oh, and Pete, Andrea and Maurine kicked my trash. It was Misty's first 5K, she did awesome. | Comments(1) |
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