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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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Asics (green) Lifetime Miles: 450.34
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3.250.003.25

Finally!  An early morning run with my friends again!!  I had planned to last Monday, but I think I got like 4 hours of sleep that night, so I had to back out.  : (   It's amazing how different it looks from the last time I ran with them!!  The sun came up while we were running - and it came up much higher on the horizon.  How wonderful that summer is on it's way!  In fact, we're supposed to get up to 87 degrees today and possibly break a few records.  We'll see.  I could stand to be hot for a while - I'm so tired of being cold.  

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This week has been the product of low running morale, I'm sorry to say.  After running on Monday, my hips were tight and a little sore on Tuesday - so I didn't go running that day. But then, on Wed and Thurs, it was easy to reason that I'll never be able to run without hip problems, so why do I even try?!?!  I was quite bummed about my body this week.  It's discouraging to have finally started really getting up in mileage and consistency and then to be slowed down for almost 2 months with a nagging tightness, tenderness that has not gone away even with physical therapy.  So, last night I was brainstorming and thought that instead of shooting for a half marathon (which is too far out of my reach right now to be any kind of motivation), I can work on my swimming and shoot for a triathlon.  It will take some serious work, I know, but I feel like I've hit a bit of a wall with running alone.  What do you think?  I could also just back off my goals and keep running 2-3 miles - just shoot for 5k times instead of distance running?  I don't know ... Dumb body.

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Ran on the Santa Fe trail with my friends.  And since my brother-in-law and his family are in town, 5 of them came running too!  Two of my nephews stayed with us the whole time!!!  Great job, boys!  We went 3.5 miles and they held up the whole time, and even smoked me at the end.  ; )   We've got 13 out-of-town guests over the long weekend (my sister-in-law and her family came down also).  So, that makes 5 children in diapers - and 4 are 1year old or younger!!!   : )

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