Rain or Shine the Road is Mine

January 08, 2009

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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

Tue, May 06, 2008

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

7.51 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 8.01 0.00 7.51

This morning has not started so great. It started with me waking up half an hour before I needed to, after having a bad dream where one of the past BYU running girls wasn't impressed with me running one good race since college (Painter's 1/2). Well, so that dream stunk, to get taunted for my running mediocrity in my own head. When I woke up I thought I heard a child breathing difficultly, but checked the three munchkins and they were all fine.

My run felt sluggish at best, but for the first two miles my right ankle felt sore and unstable, I stretched at 1 mile as usual, then stretched at the 2 mile mark because it still felt achy. I started running on the wrong side of the road (with traffic) and that helped. I turned around at about 2.2, thinking I could try to run again this afternoon, but then my leg felt better, though I still felt generally tired. My leg felt achy again the last mile of the run so I stopped running right at 7 miles and walked the .3 or so mile to my car. I stretched some more when I got home and now am wearing ice around my ankle. Dang! I should have never woken up this morning (except I guess then my dream would still be going with me berating myself?!?). And to top it off, my weight is still 127. I guess eating chocolate cake is not a good diet tip. I made chocolate cake for my cat's birthday cake. Fluffy has been in our family for one year now.

Evening- ran one mile with Benji while Mickie played soccor, so the run was on the grass. I felt some pain in my right ankle but not much. 11:21 mile for him, 57 seconds off. We were in Salem so the air is thicker, but that wouldn't have helped us more than 10 seconds. I am proud of him~!

Night Sleep Time: 6.50	Nap Time: 0.00	Total Sleep Time: 6.50

Comments

From MarcieJ on May 06, 2008 at 17:16:11

Hey dont feel bad about the cake, I ate enough dessert and treats to last both of us for a year! I am sorry your ankle is giving you trouble, I hope it gets better soon!

From josse on May 06, 2008 at 17:57:29

Is it that pre-marathon aches and pains?

I can't believe you made a cake for you cat! Next year make it out of cat food so your not tempted to eat it;)

From MichelleL on May 06, 2008 at 19:12:00

Josse - there are plenty of good reasons to make a chocolate cake, I guess there are too many good reasons to make them. I really need to stop. I need to start eating grass or bark for fun like Sasha (j/k Sasha!). My pain is in the same area I have been treating, but it was sharper and stronger :( I was just about to cancel my Thursday appt with Dr. Brady because my body was feeling so good. The appt is definitely on now! I have been icing, heating, stretching (my calves and hams), napping, IB, and pouting all day.

From josse on May 06, 2008 at 19:37:58

You are going to be ok, just stay on top of it.

From ben on May 06, 2008 at 22:11:54

Are you having a conversaion with josse?I hope you have a better morning tomorrow.And I'm glad you put fluffy in your descepshion.And all your descepshions are long but mine are small.[besides this one]

From crumpyb1 on May 06, 2008 at 23:20:11

I hope tomorrow goes better. Good luck with the ankle!

From Lybi on May 07, 2008 at 00:06:07

Hope you have better dreams tonight, Michelle! How 'bout a nice Mr. McDreamy dream? (Hopefully it doesn't make you sleep through your workout, though.)

Good luck with your ankle!

From ben on May 08, 2008 at 10:16:46

how many friends do you have?

From Sasha Pachev on May 08, 2008 at 17:29:13

I think I need to make the Top Ten Excuses for Eating Junk Food list. I made a chocolate cake for my cat's birthday would be a good candidate for it.

Speaking of weight, I weighed 151 before my run yesterday, 149 after, 149 this morning before the run, and 145 after even though it was not warm at all this morning. Your weight gain was not significant.

From MichelleL on May 08, 2008 at 17:32:37

Sasha, I think I could come up with all 10 of them, though I think the Artic Circle commercials do a pretty good job too (but you don't watch tv so you wouldn't see them would you?).

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