Rain or Shine the Road is Mine

January 07, 2009

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, Jun 28, 2008

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

13.85 6.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 2.25 0.00 19.85

Woke up 20 minutes before the alarm (AGAIN!).

Met Josse at the mouth of Provo Canyon and did 9 up and down, with a 6 mile goal marathon pace tempo down. Well, a 9 mile uphill warm up is quite a bit, and made me less motivated on the workout. My watch also ran out of charge at about 2.95 so I don't have the last three splits. The tempo started at the start of the 10 mile race we did June 14th. Here are my first three splits

1 - 6:06

2 - 6:16 (too slow for marathon goal pace, but felt like that effort so I didn't push it harder)

3 - was headed for a 5:58 mile when watch died

4-6 probably took it easier during these miles since I had no watch, just tried to keep it marathon effort and pick off the people, stopped at 5.5 or so for portapotty, then finished to the six mile point.

After we finished our run (18.6 miles for me), Josse suggested we jump in the Provo river for our icing. So we grabbed some V-8 splashes (but no chocolate donut-see I'm so strong :) ) and hopped in the river. I went in up to my rib cage in the river, so that's probably worth some commando points right there. Josse laughed at me as I screamed doing it, so I probably spend all my commando points with my theatrics :(

Had some Endurox when I got home then headed out with Benji to the park for his 2 mile run (21:30 so 1/2 credit) then I ran a little more to pick up our stuff.

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

Comments

From Shauna on Jun 28, 2008 at 12:58:39

Well, you are stronger than I. I had McDonald's for breakfast after my run today! Did I just say that out loud? (full disclosure-I NEVER eat McDonald's breakfast)

Great job on your tempo run!

From josse on Jun 28, 2008 at 22:34:28

We should find rivers to run by all the time. You now that accident we saw. That kid was coning down the canyon we where running down and crashed into a parked car. Scary ha! Glad he didn't take us out.

From Benn on Jun 29, 2008 at 10:11:41

Way to slice and dice! Killer run today, and I think you DO deserve commando points for resisting the chocolate donut :-P. Good job both you and Josse owned today!

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