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:
I need to figure out something inspiring or funny to write here. For now - I'll let the suspense build.
For further unexciting information on my life, check out my blog: Adventures in Running
Updated my Adventures In Running Blog with a modified race report and pictures from Saturday.
I've had a co-worker coughing and hacking all over the place for a week. Marion gave me lots of information about Influenza A during our visit on Saturday. When Mike came in today and mentioned his grandfather was in the hospital with pneumonia - I suggested that perhaps both of them had Influenza A. He called his grandfather's doctor who checked the blood test results and I am correct. At this point we have all been exposed for over a week, but I did give him my jar of Clorox Wipes and asked him to wipe down his cubicle thoroughly each day until he is better. I'm really glad I didn't get the passed on to me before the race.
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This is another post I just made in my main blog:
Anyone who has entered a long race can tell you that
sometimes the supporters/fans can make a world of difference. In my race last
Saturday I saw examples of both types of fans and think we can all learn from
them.
Good Fans:Michelle
Lowry is an injured elite runner.She
took second place in the St. George Marathon in 2008 and is incredibly gifted.
Unfortunately, she has been experiencing some injuries in her hip/SI area this
year and it has become debilitating enough that she is relying on crutches to
get around and sometimes even a wheelchair.I can only imagine how frustrating this must be for someone of her
talent and yet she took three hours out of her Saturday to come and cheer on
fellow runners in the Utah Valley Marathon.As Marion McLellan and I approached Mile 6, we saw an excited woman in a
blue jacket yelling and screaming at us.Just to make sure we didn’t miss her, she brandished her crutches in the
air and we knew we had found Michelle. She had a poster cheering on the FRB
(FastRunningBlog) runners and waited until the last ones she knew (us) arrived.
We gave her a quick thank you and hug (we weren’t racing after all and a hug
can do a world of good) and then headed on.A mile or so later, she passed us once again in her van honking,
cheering and waving.Michelle continued
on the course cheering on runners and watching the elite women finish.Thank you, Michelle.
Bad Fans:Marion was
really struggling physically and emotionally the last couple of miles.After Kelli Stephenson joined us (and Mandi –
Marion’s sister-in-law), somewhere before the last mile we saw a guy sitting on
the side of the road with his finisher’s medal.Trying to motivate Marion, I said, “In just a short while you will be
wearing one of those.”Instead of being
encouraging, this jerk (calling him a gentleman would be wrong), waved his
medal back and forth chanting and jeering – “I’ve got one and you don’t”.I strongly considered going back and choking
him with his medal.It was probably the
worst show of sportsmanship I have ever seen at a race.
Thank you to family and friends who have cheered me on at
races in the past 6 years.You have no
idea how much it means to me.
And
– Boston/medal guy – may you pull an important muscle in your next big race and
have to DNF….
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PM - came home from work an hour early and took a long nap. I felt a lot better after that.
Woke up refreshed with a low heart rate, but the joints were all very stiff when I got up, so decided to take today as a low impact day. Walked the dog for 2 miles this morning before work.
I'm massively depressed and feeling the dark side encroaching and having to seek out comfort food. If I disappear off the face of the earth, please remember me at marathon_maurine@hotmail.com.
Last run in one of my favorite pairs of running shoes this morning. I met Leslie and some of her friends at Birch Hollow for a before work run on the Pipeline Trail. Leslie turned back to find her friends at about .75 miles and I was alone from then on. At the turnaround took a gu and some water. Started feeling soooooo hungry at 6 miles. Can't figure out why. At 8 miles I totally bonked and started throwing in some walking breaks after that. I think the 5 hours of sleep last night and the night before are impacting me because I usually need at least 7.5 hours each night.
Off to work. Oh yeah - note to self - don't try to leave MillCreek Canyon between 8:30 and 9:15 on a day when there is scout camp. Tons of cars sitting in the road waiting to park and drop off little scouts and you can't go around them.
