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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
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66.80
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Race: Couples Classic (4.06 Miles) 00:26:13, Place overall: 4, Place in age division: 2
Total Distance
16.50

Pretty fun race today, you ran with a partner and they combined your times and average age to determine place.  My similarly aged partner Ron knocked down a 23:30!  wow!  very sticky and humid but only in the 70s and it was overcast so that helped.  Warmed up a very slow .5 miles.  Felt pretty solid throughout the whole race, I once again need to learn to push these short races, I definitely had more gas in the tank when it was done, because I was able to kick and pass two gals in the final quarter mile, which felt good.  Splits were 6:24, 6:23, 6:35, 6:34, and then like 5:30 pace for the change at the end.  This is about 20 seconds per mile faster than the River Run 10k two weeks ago, and I feel that fitness is progressing nicely and coming back.  Honestly I aerobically felt really strong, wish I would have pushed that back half harder. Ran a 12 mile cooldown after. 

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Total Distance
8.00

recovery circles at downtown Y, followed by a brief 20 minute core session.  not sore from yesterday

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Total Distance
10.30

8am:  tired after a long 12 hour night at work, haven't slept since my last run, but needed to kill a little time while Vanessa was at her appointment.  5 minute warm up, then 15 x 1 minute on/1 minute off.  Minutes "on" were nothing to write home about--6:05 to 6:50 pace but staggering on no sleep through gnarly heat and humidity I wasn't expecting much, just getting some leg turnover.  Cooled down 3 minutes or so and then Vanessa was done and I could go home and sleep a little.  5.2 miles, 7:28 AP

afternoon--stumbled out of bed for a very toasty 5.1 mile shakeout before heading for another night at work

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8.00

84 degree afternoon run at a nice recovery pace, actually felt quite comfortable.  50 minutes weights and core.

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8.00

ez on the mill.  was supposed to do a tempo today but my legs were so heavy and dead I pushed the workout to tomorrow in hopes of getting more quality out of it.  I went and got some new shoes, and allowed a little video gait analysis.  Mistake!!  Any visions I have of being a somewhat graceful runner are shattered.  That is the ugliest, most horrific gait I have ever seen.  The shoe story guy, my teammate, was quite silent watching the video, and then handily tried to blame the accident as a possible culprit.  Anywho, one foot turns in and supinates, the other one turns out and overpronates, and I am all heelstrike.   Bah!  I don't care, it gets me from point A to point B and it is going to get me there faster than ever in October!  And I love my knew kicks, bright yellow Kinvaras.

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Total Distance
16.00

8:04 AP.  Big change of plans, my friend needed to do his long run today and for me it was nice to get it done before I start my first of 3 x 12 hour shifts for the weekend so I went for it.  It was a bit of a late start, and the temps were in the 90's with the sun beating down for the back half of the run.  We had planted some water and got a drink at mile 9 but were hurting again soon after, finally found a row of sprinklers around mile 13.5 and crawled on our bellies in the grass with our faces in the spiggots, pretty desperate for a drink and some cooling.  It was enough to make it to the finish.  Not exactly pretty, but it was a solid enough long run in the heat.  Now I have a day to rest and toss around the idea of a 5k Sunday for speedwork.

 

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