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

Sat, Sep 27, 2008

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

9.70 3.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 12.70

Slept in, then ran 6.5 on my own, up the road from Zermatt along a road that will take you to Park City. The first 1.5 is rolling gradual uphill and the next 1 is nasty uphill. There was a 100 mile bike race from what I could tell, and lots of bikes on the road and I got to witness a rest stop, where people were off their bikes in droves and milling around, much more rest than a typical race stop in my races (at least when I get to them). I wanted to do some marathon effort tempo on the downhill, then would pick up my husband for the second half of my run.

Mile 1: 5:58, steepest part is the first half, but took the first 1/3 of mile easy at about 6:20 pace, then conciously saw if I could change gears once I felt the grade wasn't so steep.

2: 6:31 (remember this is at altitude)

3: 6:35

the effort seemed hard for the pace, but I was in high altitude. If I had nothing else to do I'd throw this into our course tool, but I have to get some work done. Things are heating up at work. Just in time for the marathon.

Ran about 6 miles with Paul. The leaf colors are so vibrant and varied. Just a beautiful run. We did the same up and down on the road, so I got some good downhill training today.

ave pace: 9:02

Night Sleep Time: 8.75	Nap Time: 0.50	Total Sleep Time: 9.25

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