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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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I had this brilliant idea to do my "long run" today instead of tomorrow, since we're thinking about riding the Gunlock loop on our bikes tomorrow.  My regular training schedule has me doing eight miles tomorrow, but it doesn't take into account the fact that I just ran a marathon and am supposed to be in recovery.  So I decided I would just run the 6 miles up to bootcamp this morning, and call it good.  I talked Britnee into joining me, and we left an hour before bootcamp was supposed to start.  Well, first I forgot to close the front door when I left, so we had to go back and close it...which cost us an extra .55 mile.  Then I realized that my legs were SO tired, I couldn't make them go faster than a 9 minute pace!  Plus, the entire way there is uphill, with a STEEP hill at the end of the run.  I could barely walk it by the time I got there.  And it was a tiny bit farther than I had anticipated.  So in the end, we ran 7.35 miles, and it took us 1:22:49....WAY longer than I had planned.  I have no idea how I'm going to pull off a 50-mile bike ride tomorrow.  :(

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