Training for a Belt Buckle

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Location:

Sandy,UT,USA

Member Since:

Jan 01, 2008

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

PR's: 50 Mile 13:07 (Pony Express 2010), 50K 8:35 (Buffalo Run 2008), 25K 4:02 (Buffalo Run 2006), Marathon 5:09:12 (St George 2008), Half Marathon 2:28 (Provo 2008), 10K 1:17, 5K 27:54

Short-Term Running Goals:

After 1/9/2010 - I am taking a year off from marathon length distances and focusing on building up my base speed on half marathons and shorter distances.

2010 Speed Goals:

Build up my base speed on training runs to 10 MM miles or better
Half Marathon - break 2:05 (9.5 MM avg)
10K Goal 1 - break 1:00 (9.67 MM avg)
10K Goal 2 - break 55 minutes (8.87 MM avg)
5K Goal 1 - break 26.35 minutes
5K Goal 2 - break 25 minutes

Long-Term Running Goals:

Long Term Goals:

Complete a 100 Mile race
Complete a 100 K race
Break 12 hours in a 50 mile race
Run all portions of the Wasatch 100 course
Break 5 hours in a marathon
Break 4.5 hours in a marathon
Qualify for and run Boston

Personal:

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Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	0.00
Vibram FiveFingers Lifetime Miles:						452.95
Montrail Streak Lifetime Miles:						195.69
Montrail Vitesse (9.0) Lifetime Miles:						89.75
Mizuno Wave Ascend 3 (2009) Lifetime Miles:						228.50
Brooks Advantage (Blue) Lifetime Miles:						271.42
Crocs Black Lifetime Miles:						80.85
Vibram FiveFingers - Black Lifetime Miles:						65.50
Hoka Mafate Lifetime Miles:						36.95
Hoka Stinson Evo 2012 Lifetime Miles:						53.50

Mon, Mar 30, 2009

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
1.25	0.00	0.00	0.00	1.25

Forgive me for posting walking mileage this week. I vowed before the Buffalo Run 50 that I would take an entire week off without running a single step.

.25 miles walking this morning with Twilight. 1.0+ miles after work walking with Twilight.

Did my first Yoga video ever - The Gift of Yoga. A little hard focusing at times when moving from upward facing dog to downward facing dog because I was coping with little dog standing on back at the same time. Felt some good stretches.

One of the books I am going to read this week is Core Performance Endurance by Mark Verstegen. It focuses a lot on learning proper balance and form and I know that curing my lousy posture and getting better running balance will help me a lot as I strive to improve in the future. Plus, he has several great exercises using the styrofoam roller and tennis balls for releasing and massaging muscles. I will be doing those all this week since I won't be running.

Only a little tightness in the hamstrings today. None in the quads. This leads me to believe that my training was good enough for the race - it was just not in the cards. The left knee is a bit tender on stairs - but not when I get up from sitting or when walking - so those are good signs.

I have made healthy food choices all day. The sun is out. As long as I keep busy I don't focus on those three awful letters.

Brooks - Water Resistant Miles: 1.25

Night Sleep Time: 7.50	Nap Time: 0.00	Total Sleep Time: 7.50	Weight: 0.00

Comments

From crockett on Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 22:03:29 from 71.36.65.117

I read your race report. Very good, first word I've had about the big race. Sorry about the DNF. ITBS is tough. You can't run through it and you had to quit. The shorts theory is possible. Thankfully I haven't had ITBS since I was forced to rest because of knee surgery several years ago. You just have to wait until the pain is gone. Once you recover, adding more hills in your workouts should help too, but you will fear hills until the pain is gone. My first 100k was a DNF from bad knee pain. I didn't let it recover and DNFed my first 100-mile race a month later.

From leslie on Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 14:26:09 from 76.23.61.78

Maurine, sounds like you are playing it smart!

That is a valuable lesson to learn from Crockett! And look at him now, he is famous in the ultra world!

From Kelli on Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 14:59:06 from 71.219.100.181

Good for you, a break is good. I love breaks (but tend to feel a little guilty!)

From Smooth on Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 15:49:49 from 71.36.65.79

Maurine, good rehab exercises and gleaning from yours and Davy's experiences. Speedy recovery to you!

From Nevels on Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 15:57:46 from 131.204.15.93

I see you're planning on running the Ogden Marathon in May; do you have any other races coming up?

And I'll join the chorus saying that Davy up there is a great example of coming back from some frustrating DNF's to do some pretty amazing stuff.

From maurine/tarzan on Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 16:30:00 from 63.255.172.2

Nevels - I am signed up for the Grand Slam this summer and also plan to do the OV 50 in October. I was going to do the Bonneville Shoreline Marathon in April - but think I will take a pass on that one and not do anything big until Ogden.

My son's fraternity is helping out with a 5K the first week in May. I will probably run that as a speed workout (if he ever tells me what the run is ;-) )

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