Rain or Shine the Road is Mine

January 08, 2009

Asics Gel-2130 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

Sat, May 10, 2008

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

11.74 3.00 1.00 0.00 0.00 15.74 0.00 15.74

I met with the SF group. It quickly became Alli, MacK, Josse and I since we decided to not go to bishops to save some time on the workout (MacK had to get to a 5k for her church after the run). We decided to start our tempo at the top of pretty little road for some downhill, 4.71 miles into the run. It's hard to find a long stretch of downhill in the SF/Salem farm country, but we did our best to patch one together :) Josse was going to tempo 3 miles and I was going to tempo 4. I was fine with anything from threshold effort to marathon pace (6:30-6:50).

Mile 1 - 6:25, this mile had the best/fastest downhill, marathon/half marathon effort

Mile 2 - 6:38, short downhill (Zephyr) then flat, felt like marathon effort

Mile 3 - 6:36, we turned left at powerhouse road, so gradual slight downhill, Josse did great and was done with three, marathon/half marathon effort

Mile 4 - 6:29, I turned around and did the gradual uphill mile to finish the tempo off. Unfortunately this mile felt harder, 10K-half marathon effort. I was glad to break 6:30 (even if by a second) on the uphill, though.

I then turned around and met back up with Josse. MacK and Alli did a tempo at a more moderate pace (6:40ish) but didn't turn left on powerhouse road so we didn't see them again. It was nice to run in SF and see lots of running buddies. It was great weather, it started at 38 and worked up to about 46. I am wearing shorts now so I need a new blog name. All my ideas are either not clever enough or too clever, so I am working on it. I had ice bath #2 for the year and Endurox.

Ave pace 8:04

I ran with the two kiddies just before lunch for a mile. They did very well. I'll count that as 1/2 mile. I ran it in 11 min. pace.

Night Sleep Time: 6.25	Nap Time: 0.00	Total Sleep Time: 6.25

Comments

From Bonnie on May 11, 2008 at 11:38:15

Happy Mother's Day Michelle.

I am getting ready to make my Mom breakfast!

Bonnie

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