Rain or Shine the Road is Mine

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

Sat, Jan 12, 2008

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

14.04 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 14.04

Ran with Jamie and the Sojourners, though the Sojourners were a quite small group today. I warmed up alone for a mile so that I didn't have to do my 10:30 first mile in a group. The warm up was a little better than the last couple of days. We started at the mouth of the Provo Canyon and went toward the temple. Jamie and I separated at around 6 miles for me, and I was on my own after that. I felt pretty good until about mile 9 then I started to suck wind pretty badly. Can I be unadjusted to altitude after being at sea level for just a week? I felt like a weakling. About the same time it got harder for me to breathe it started to snow annoying little snow flakes, and my heavy winter clothes felt claustrophobic and I was sliding on the river trail in places and I thought, geez, I think I prefer Hawaii. . .

Oh well, I will adjust back to reality.

Ave pace 8:50

Mizuno

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

Comments

From jtshad on Jan 12, 2008 at 12:29:56

Welcome back...to the reality of living in the mountain west.

From Bonnie on Jan 12, 2008 at 16:35:17

Welcome Back Michelle! You can think of Hawaii during the painful parts of Painter's ... I am very glad you had a nice time!

Bonnie

From MarcieJ on Jan 12, 2008 at 18:03:26

Hello did you not just take a red eye flight and not get alot of sleep! I bet you just have a little jet lag, after flying I always feel crappy running for a couple days. BTW I thought it was so great you got out running on your layover, that is TRUE dedication!

I am getting excited to meet you, have you ever thought about relocating to SG so I could train with you? :) :)

From MichelleL on Jan 12, 2008 at 18:40:32

Thanks for the welcomes back. Kind of funny because I never was really gone in the virtual blog world sense.

Marcie - I did get about 5 hours of flight sleep between flights one and two, really low quality stuff. Then I had a hard time sleeping well last night because my cat kept meowing (he is limping and I think in pain, I will probably take him into the vet on Tuesday, a new experience for this novice pet owner). So what are your thoughts for Painters'? Teams are stronger when they run in a pack. I would think that perhaps you, Ruth and I would likely naturally be in the same pace for the first miles at least. I would love for you to race with me and give me a run for the money the whole way (not that there is money on the line, is there?). I think you have more in you than you know. As my tempo on Thursday shows, I will need to warm up well before the race (probably more than normal, probably 3 miles slow), and the first couple of miles I will likely be warming up to the race pace. I am not sure if that works for you. I think I will be trying to target 6:25 pace, though I will be running quite a bit by feel.

Ave pace 6:25 would get us very close to breaking 1:24. The past female winning times are:

07 - 1:24:27

06 - 1:29:27

05 - 1:26:44

04 - 1:25:27

03 - 1:23:47

02 - 1:25:01

01 - 1:27:59

00 - 1:21:43

99 - 1:20:48

We have a good shot at going 1-2-3. Don't be surprised if Josse gets all excited and decides to race it too (don't do it Josse!)

From josse on Jan 12, 2008 at 19:45:31

hehehehehehehehehehehheehehehehheheheeeeehehehehehehhehehe Don't count one it I am going to TRY to be self disciplined, haha that made me laugh after all the talk I have been doing on Lybi's blog about self discipline HA.

From MarcieJ on Jan 12, 2008 at 21:31:29

I would love to try to hang with you, I do much better when I am with some one. But I dont know if I will be able to pull off that pace but I will for sure give it my all.So lets definetely start out together! There is a girl named Erica Schramm and if she is running she could very well give all of us a run for our money. I would be so thrilled if you took 1st!!!!!

From Ruthie on Jan 13, 2008 at 01:23:59

Well, if I am up to it, I'd love to run with you guys! Actually, I know that I am NOT up to it, but I still want to run with you guys. If I'm going to do the Half with as little training as I've been getting of late, I might as well commit total suicide and go for a good time or something...! And if I die in the middle (which is the most probable outcome of this madness), it can be a guts or nothing fight to the death with my own dumb self! Ooh yeah!.... so I think I've lost my mind.

Anyway, you guys can definitely win this thing - last year I got 2nd and I wasn't as fast as you gals are. (Last year many fast people from up north stayed up there because of the bad weather, so basically, I just got lucky) :) So, then we can sabotage Erica Schramm and sweep it! Or at least you two can have first and second. And I can say "I know them, they're so fast! And cool! They let me run with them for a while, and I died!"

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