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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
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTrainer 1 MilesTrainer 2 MilesRacer MilesTotal Distance
10.000.000.000.000.000.000.0010.00

Bad dreams!  I dremt that the first two marathons I have done, (st. G and ogden this past year) were actually done with multi hour breaks in between running stints because I had to work and take care of the kids, so in reality I had actually never run a marathon all the way through.  Glad that was just a dream.

I started this morning's run on my own but saw Whitney and joined her.  She was on a recovery run but running 7 flat pace, so I, embarrassed, asked if we could slow it down.  My legs are still sore from the race.  We slowed it down but only to 7:15 ave pace for the 5 miles I ran with her.  I finished up my miles on my own, though I saw the high school's cross country team ahead of me and caught the stragglers, held myself back from catching the main packs since I'm doing a hard workout tomorrow.

I did another ice bath this morning.  This time added one ziplock baggie of solid ice.  Temp was 59F.  Still too warm.  I guess I better start filling up some more ziplock bags so I am ready for tomorrow.

This week is supposed to be another 85 mile week.  Fun fun!

weight: 123 (lots of banana chocolate chip cookies yesterday while watching the olympics-a bad sort of irony to be watching the olympics while stuffing my face with cookies- I'll have to stick to fruit for the rest of my two week couch potato stint called the summer Olympics)

Night Sleep Time: 6.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.50
Comments
From marion on Aug 11, 2008 at 15:35:55

Great run. Good girl for not chasing down the cross country team!

You know these olympics are so stinking AWESOME that it is almost impossible to not eat on accident! Especially Banana Chocolate chip! Did you see the mens 400 free relay last night? I almost jumped through the roof (and into a chocolate cake) ;D

From MarcieJ on Aug 11, 2008 at 16:10:31

Hey I vegged on chocolate licorice while watching yesterday! and it tasted so good too:)

From Brent on Aug 11, 2008 at 23:15:50

Michelle, the lion queen, preblog of a dream, the queen will roar even louder. Chickas and dudes alike now fear being chased down by the Lion Queen.

Stay Kool, Fearless, B of BS Rools out

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