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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, May 11, 2009

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

I'm considering having to DNS for the Ogden Marathon on Saturday. A pain in my right leg while walking on Saturday was still there on a short walk on Sunday. However, as time goes on - I think I have isolated it as not belonging to the hamstring but up in the old Gluteus Maximum area.

I have scheduled a deep tissue massage with my favorite massage therapist for tonight (thanks, Leslie!). I am also resting for a day or two.

After talking with my sister, I am also trying to find a chiropractor here in Sandy and get in to one in the next day or two. I have a feeling this injury might be a result of my faceplant on Friday evening. It was pretty jarring to my entire body and I got up and ran an additional 3.5 miles after the fall. Then, 13 hours later I ran the same trail (and then some again) and wrenched my right ankle after a mile and might have been favoring that side of my body.

I'd curl up in a fetal position and suck my thumb - but that would probably put more stress on the injured area.

/**********************/

I did not get drawn in the St. George Lottery. That puts pressure on me to run the Grand Slam if I want to do St. George this fall. Waaaaaaah!

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

Comments

From luzylew on Mon, May 11, 2009 at 17:46:08 from 208.187.197.42

Sorry to hear, especially after I teased about the faceplant.....right before Ogden. I'm not running Ogden either if it makes you feel any better (because I was terribly injured at the time of sign up). That sucks, but you've never really taken a good break. I hope you get better. Is your IT band any better since the 50 miler? Maybe it is your hamstrig pulling stuff out of order (that's what happened to me). It hurt me to sit down and turn over in bed. It felt like my hip was hurting, but it was really my ham pulling off the bone....

From marion on Mon, May 11, 2009 at 21:41:37 from 71.213.117.213

Darn it Maurine! What is the alternate for the grand slam? Ogden, Utah valley, Park City, ... TOU?

Have Les check your piriformis. It's way deep in there and likes to piss all the other muscles off ;)

From Maurine/Tarzan on Mon, May 11, 2009 at 22:01:37 from 97.117.66.96

Marion - sorry you didn't get drawn either.

I'm still hoping I can run Ogden and then with UV and PC I will get an automatic entry into St. George. If I can't run Ogden, then I have to consider Top Of Utah or my friend who got me an entry last year. However, if I don't into St. George I will just run some other races.

Went to the chiropractor today. He found my right piroformus and right sacroiliac were both really tight and popped them back in. I go back for another treatment tomorrow.

Then I went to Leslie's and she found the piroformis and my right hamstring were extremely tight and did some good digging in there. I might try and get another half hour appointment with her on Thursday if it looks like I am healing. On the good side - it actually felt like my right IT Band was more painful than my left IT Band (which is the one I injured).

From Smooth on Mon, May 11, 2009 at 22:52:00 from 71.36.74.243

Oh {{{Maurine}}},

That's a double whammy. So sorry. But you're a woman of action and looks like you're getting the injuries under control. Oh, I hope you run Ogden. Best of luck.

From marion on Tue, May 12, 2009 at 09:11:12 from 71.213.117.213

that darn piriformis. It's a little guy, who really reeks havoc on that whole area ;) sounds like you got some good lovin' today :D

From leslie on Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:01:33 from 76.23.61.78

Maurine was tight for sure, the piriformis was super tight.

I hope you get better quick, but you are smart enough to know if your legs are up to it.

Yeah, lets see if we can crank on those legs one more time.

Alternate ice and heat! Stretch and rest!

From maurine on Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:00:46 from 63.255.172.2

Les - when do you want to torture me again?

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