Rain or Shine the Road is Mine

January 08, 2009

Brooks Adrenaline GTS 8 Men

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Location:

Woodland Hills,UT,84653

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Olympic Trials Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

Unaided:

5K - 17:11 (track Pre-kids and at BYU) (1998)

10K - 35:48 (track Pre-kids and at BYU) (1998)

Painters' 1/2 Marathon 1:22:42 (race time 1:21:39 adjusted to true up to 13.1) (1/08)

Aided:

St. George Marathon 3:00:41 (2007)

Ogden Marathon 3:02:18 (2nd place) (05/08)

1/2 marathon - Hobble Creek 1:17:14 (8/08)

10K - Deseret News 10K - 35:02 (7/08)

Short-Term Running Goals:

10K - sub 37:30 flat

5K - sub 18

Make the effort to find races to compete against more elite ladies.

Proposed racing schedule 2008 (feel free to provide feedback):

May 17 - Ogden 1/2 marathon

June 14 - Provo River 10 Miler

July 4th - Freedom Festival 10K

July 24th - Deseret News 10K

August 9th - Provo River 1/2 marathon

August 23 - Hobble Creek 1/2 marathon

Sept 6 - Spanish Fork 1/2 marathon

Oct 4 - St George marathon

Long-Term Running Goals:

Run St. George 2008 in 2:50 or less, gauge whether an OT time is in my future.

Personal:

I used to run for BYU, but only after trying out three times and finally walking on, so I was never a star. However, it was wonderful to run with great people and under Coach Shane. When you run with fast people, you can't help to improve! I graduated BYU in 1998, and didn't run a race until 2002, after having my second child. My hiatus and other crazy life commitments have made my competitive running suffer, but the last couple of years I have tried to get back into it the best I can. I have been married since 1996, to Paul Lowry, who is a runner himself. I have three boys (my three rascals), ages 8, 6, and 4.

Miles:	This week:	28.54	Month:	63.98	Year:	63.98
Asics Stratus 2.1 (purple) Lifetime Miles:						276.92
Mizuno WaveRider (aqua) Lifetime Miles:						404.19
Brooks Defyance (blue) Lifetime Miles:						203.46
Mizuno Precision (yellow) Lifetime Miles:						399.44
Saucony Type A2 Racers (red Baby) Lifetime Miles:						81.29
Brooks Defyance #2 (blue) Lifetime Miles:						181.46
Mizuno WaveRider #2 (aqua) Lifetime Miles:						41.20
2009 Driving Miles Lifetime Miles:						55.00

Fri, May 09, 2008

Easy Miles Marathon Pace Miles Threshold Miles VO2 Max Miles Trainer 1 Miles Trainer 2 Miles Racer Miles Total Distance

9.72 0.00 0.00 0.00 9.72 0.00 0.00 9.72

I had the most elaborate dream/nightmare about a marathon, which was a cross between Ogden and St. George only it wasn't like either at all, of course. And I ran with Marcie for the first half, and at the half way point we stopped for like 5 minutes, turned off our watches like it was ok to stop and stretch and shoot the breeze in the middle of a race. Then in the second half we were apart and I got lost and fell hours behind. At about mile 18 there was a tremendous downhill of like 25% then my husband Paul picked me up in the minivan and we went to the store, and he tried to drop me off at that point in the race (about mile 23) but I realized he had to drop me off where he picked me up or it wouldn't be a true marathon. So he was driving me on this crowded street, crowded with a bunch of recreational 6 hour marathoners and he was driving fast and I was like, "Paul stop you are running into people!!!" He wouldn't slow down, and I think he was mostly bumping them, not really running over people, but he finally dropped me off to finish the race.

Nice dream, eh?

Last night and this morning my feet felt a little achy, just some aches/pains in different places. It all shook off and had no pain in the whole run.

I met MacK and JH in Salem and we did a nice loop. Mack and I ran for a mile going up and down a hilly road until JH came, and that first mile was slow (almost 10 minute). Then I stretched and we took off. MacK was with us for three miles then turned around. After mile 1 the miles averaged just under 8 minute pace. I am feeling good! I had some Endurox when I came home because I want to recover well. I have over 100 plants (vinca major) I will be planting in the next day. It is nice to get out and do yard work.

Ave pace 8:06, had a 7:23 mile in there. JH is pretty fast!

I converted all my mile runs with the boys to only count half their distance, since the pace is so off my normal easy pace. I will start counting them at their full length when they are below 10 minute pace.

Night Sleep Time: 7.75	Nap Time: 0.00	Total Sleep Time: 7.75

Comments

From Clay on May 09, 2008 at 12:12:15

You gals spooked me when you passed me this morning, you can't do that to an old man like me!!!

Good job on your training too...

From MarcieJ on May 09, 2008 at 12:13:40

Hey that makes me feel special that I got to be running with you in your marathon dream. Thats a pretty crazy dream. I have weird ones too all the time before races. I will have to tell you about them sometime. They mostly consist of me missing the start and then the marathon always has an obstacle course and trivia in it, and people that should not be in front of me are beating me because I cant get through the obstacle course or answer the right questions and I am always so mad because I am thinking "this is not what you do in a marathon!"

I am so glad you had a good run today! That endurox always helps me feel so much better after I run too!

From MichelleL on May 09, 2008 at 12:21:08

Clay-sometime you should just join us! It's the Ipod that makes these encounters so scary. It's hard when you can't hear. Glad to get your heartrate up!

Marcie-If I can't run with you in person I can run with you in my dreams! But next time lets make it a little more enjoyable, ok? I wish I could control my dreams more. . .

From Sunny on May 09, 2008 at 12:43:35

I wish Dustin would take Jarren but that is kind of pushing it. He's a bit young but next year hopefully for sure no doubt!

Ya gotta love having all boys don't ya!

From Clay on May 09, 2008 at 12:46:14

I know I should just join you guys one of these times, but I'm just a tad bit intimidated!

From Sasha Pachev on May 09, 2008 at 12:51:38

I count anything faster than 12:00 as a normal training mileage. Which means you could probably be OK with anything faster than 13:30.

From MichelleL on May 11, 2008 at 17:19:17

Sasha - In my line of thinking you shouldn't count anything slower than 9 minute pace. It's just too slow to do anything more than increase your metabolism for a while.

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