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Location:

Saint George,UT,

Member Since:

Jun 09, 2009

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Marathon Finish

Running Accomplishments:

I started running in September 2007 - 4 months after baby #8 was born.  Since then I have finished two 5Ks, three 10Ks, three half-marathons, and I completed my first Marathon with at time of 4:48- the Phoenix Rock-N-Roll - Jan 2009!  Marathon #2 showed GREAT improvement - the Saint George Marathon 2009 with a time of 4:10 - YEAH!!!!

Short-Term Running Goals:

I want to run more marathons, finish injury-free, go dancing afterwards, and mostly have a LOT of FUN!!!

Long-Term Running Goals:

Keep running!!!  Someday I want to be able to consider myself as something other than a beginner.  :D

Personal:

I am happily married, have 8 children, and am madly in love with my awesome husband!!!  Besides running, I love performing on stage, and have recently become re-involved in the theater, after a LONG break to have children.  Last summer I did my first show as a PAID professional actress!  I teach piano and voice lessons, and homeschool my kids.  Life is grand!

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My plan this morning was to do P90X legs, but Ben woke up to do it with me, and since he has it downloaded on his laptop, we were able to actually do the workout in our GYM instead of in my office!  And THAT means that I had a pull-up bar to work with...so instead of doing JUST legs, I was able to do legs AND back!  I'll admit, I looked like an idiot trying to do the pull-ups, but Ben said that he could see the muscles in my back, so I tried evern harder to do them.  :D  Boy oh boy, did I work up a sweat!  It was a great workout.  And we topped it off with ab-ripper X.  I'm loving watching the definition appear in my abdomen.  I don't believe I have ever had ab definition before, but maybe I was just not paying attention when I was a youth.  Oh, well, it doesn't really matter to me.  I'm just glad to be a 39-year-old mother-of-eight-babies with AB muscles!  Yes!!!

This evening we went to the pool, as usual, and I did 63 minutes of water-running.  This weekend I will have built up to my three hours of water-running, and then - back to the road!!!!  Actually, I promised myself that I would try to stay off my legs until eleven weeks had gone by, so I have to wait until March 9th, but that still gives me a couple of days to try out real running before I run the Dallas Rock-n-Roll Half on March 14th.  I guess I will have to keep water-running for another week, but at least I will be finished with the REALLY long runs.  Oh, so BORING.

Weight: 122.60
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