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April 19, 2024

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Location:

Wichita,KS,

Member Since:

Sep 14, 2008

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

marathon pr:  2:59:49.  Saint George 2011

Praire Spirit 50 mile winner 7:36:30 2013

I accidentally ran 100 miles in November 2013.  it was hard.  I threw up a lot.  decided to do a better job next time

I did it again on purpose October 2014--Heartland 100 winner and CR 17:38:37

Heartland 50 winner May 2014

Psycho Wyco 50k winner February 2012

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

Run enough to hold off the middle-age spread

 

 

 

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

 

Sub 3 hour marathon--SOMEDAY!  Done!

 

New long term goal:  ....run enough to feel kinda like I did when I was fit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Personal:

I was a single mom.  Two times over.  We all survived, despite the fact that I make atrocious decisions.  Then, I met a man I didn't deserve.  And he loves me so much.  And I love him. We lived in sin and bought a house for two years then hired a judge and officially got married(to our great delight and also the delight of our mothers), then a month later he was diagnosed with cancer.  Well we survived all that and he's 100% fine now.  But, we're really out of shape and really busy with kids and jobs and running just isn't my priority and there's so many other layers to all of it, but I'm running anyway.  This is my failure blog now.  Just to log that one run a week if I snag it.  
Somehow that matters and I want that run recorded.

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Mizuno Waverider 12 Lifetime Miles: 333.61
Nike Air Pegasus Lifetime Miles: 507.20
Pink Pegs Lifetime Miles: 595.58
Pink Nike Avant Lifetime Miles: 624.04
Crappy Asics Lifetime Miles: 146.72
Adidas Adizero Mana Lifetime Miles: 113.32
Blue Avants Lifetime Miles: 653.33
Crocs Lifetime Miles: 18.08
Lunarfly Lifetime Miles: 468.47
Tue, Sep 24, 2013
Total Distance
14.50

8.5 easy in the afternoon around Vanessa's school, estimate on mileage, no watch, ran easy except for about 1.5 miles when I had a fun tailwind and picked it up.  Dropped her off then did 6 ez on the treadmill before work.  Felt pretty good.  Deactivated my facebook for now and had cable turned off, actually feels good to detox a bit from social media and I need to save money if I am going to buy a plane ticket to Boston.

Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Neasts on Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 23:14:27 from 75.169.60.81

You are pretty much amazing, April. I love how you bleed good, old-fashioned honesty onto your blog. I think some races are just going to feel harder than others, so I think you have nothing to worry about for your marathon. You're experienced enough to go off of feel for as long as it takes to regroup and regain your peace. I'll miss your FB posts of you and your adorable V, who reminds me a bit of my little J. I so admire your commitment to her above anything else and it has inspired me to try to do a bit more mommy-daughter stuff (hard to do with so many boys). I'm thinking Friday night? Girls night in. :-)

From I Just Run on Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:49:24 from 67.79.11.242

I really like the way you improvise to get all your running in. My running seems to be a one shot or nothing thing. Great on the Boston ticket! I guess I need to look into that myself.

From SlowJoe on Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 18:44:23 from 66.69.93.8

Deactivate Facebook - we're allowed to do that?

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