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Location:

CO,

Member Since:

Aug 22, 2007

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Marathon Finish

Running Accomplishments:

Began running Aug 07

3 mile - 28:50 (Dec 07)

10K - 1:00:41 (July 08)

Half Marathon - 2:18:56 (Sep 08)

Short-Term Running Goals:

Keep running.  Look for races to keep me focused on improvement and consistency.

Long-Term Running Goals:

Runner for Life

Personal:

I grew up in NM and met my husband at BYU. We've lived in NV, MI, AZ, and CO since graduation and we have 3 beautiful daughters 7, 2, and 1

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Asics (green) Lifetime Miles: 450.34
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
1.750.001.75

I ran in the evening today because of other appointments in the morning. I usually try to go around 9:00 when both my babies are asleep and while my husband is working downstairs; but Wednesdays will have to be PM runs since Cami has her therapies starting at 8:00 and getting all 3 girls ready and out the door by 7:30 is impressively busy, even with Mike's help. Mike's been getting up at 4:30 to go cycling lately (poor tired man!) and it's been in the 40's lately at that hour!

I went a little longer than my one mile per Sasha's suggestion. It was good. Still no pain in my hip or knees, so maybe I'm finally starting to warm up to being active again. I'll keep it slow and steady, though, and look forward to my 5K on October 20th. I asked the 2 marathoners in my book club if they wanted to run it with me, but one will have just run the Long Beach marathon the week before, and the other - St. George. Oh well. I think my husband is going to run it with me, if we can get someone to stay with our girls.

Does anyone else hate 1st grade!?!?! My sweet little 6 year old is struggling with her new Special Ed teacher. I'm going to look into other options because I hate seeing her disliking school more and more; and I'm getting phone calls from the teacher saying, "We're having a power struggle over doing math." Come on! This is special ed! Give her a break and try again in half an hour; don't make life miserable! Ugh.

Comments
From Sasha Pachev on Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 10:57:12

We homeschool. Kids are kids, so there is a lot of power struggle at times, but we can handle it. We are not doing special ed, so I am not sure how it works with homeschool, but I imagine you can do quite well.

If you have any kind of exercise equipment in the home (elliptical, stationary bike, etc), it would help adding some workouts on it as well to supplement your running, and build endurance/strength without an increased risk of injury.

From sarah on Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 19:41:28

Ha!! Boy was I surprised to see that comment from my DH..I was just going to say the same thing about school. Can you change teachers if the problem continues...we are unfortunately no help in the schooling department because as Sasha said we homeschool...Good job on doing more miles.

From Lybi on Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 23:16:04

I'm going to take the 5th on 1st grade. Homeschooling sounds pretty nice sometimes. Good job on your workout!

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