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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
Wed, Jun 16, 2010
Total Distance
8.00

Rough day followed by a rough workout.  I couldn't get a sitter so missed the tribal hill run.  I decided to to hill repeats on the treadmill at home.  My randomly chosen interval was 6x.2 mile repeats on a 6% grade at 6:40 pace.  I warmed up 1.5 and started. After the first one my thought was "what am I trying to do here?"  It was pretty intense.  It was so intense that I took long .3 recoveries at 10:00 pace.  The second one I was near death.  After the third one my daughter had to go potty YEAH jumped off the treadmill and got my spleen out of my throat while I helped her.  Number 4 and I am done with a capital D.  Number 5 is scary, I may get thrown off this treadmill.  Number 6 I survived only because I knew it was the last one but I don't know if I could've taken .0001 mile more of it.  I may be imagining things but I think the treadmill starts to go faster on the incline.  Maybe it's psychological, but wow, that was HARD, way harder than any hill I have ever run on outside.  I have a lot of respect for people that train a lot on the treadmill because I am whimp.Cooled down enough sloooow miles to get me to 8.  8:39 AP.

Pink Nike Avant Miles: 8.00
Weight: 0.00
Comments
From KP on Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 13:59:34 from 65.208.22.26

whoa! that is an intense workout. way to finish it! i wouldn't never lasted.

From CookieLegs on Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 14:06:13 from 155.101.152.105

Just think about how strong you're getting! :)

Honestly, you'll learn how to go by "feel" with the settings, and make it a good hard effort without worrying about flying off the back. (Might need to slow the pace a bit, or decrease the incline a bit, to duplicate the effort level of your outdoor hill workouts.)

From SlowJoe on Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 23:34:42 from 69.153.187.169

have you ever seen one of these:

http://www.hillrunner.com/training/tmillchart.php

Might convice you that you're not a wimp.

From seeaprilrun on Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 12:25:32 from 68.103.255.61

Wow Joe thanks, that helps a little, or at least explains why it was so hard!

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