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Park City Marathon

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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:

I need to figure out something inspiring or funny to write here. For now - I'll let the suspense build.

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Mizuno Wave Ascend 3 (2009) Lifetime Miles: 228.50
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
33.3024.200.000.0057.50
Montrail Streak Miles: 12.00Vibram FiveFingers Miles: 11.30Brooks Advantage (Blue) Miles: 7.00Mizuno Wave Ascend 3 (2009) Miles: 27.20
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3.75 miles speed walking in the AM with Twilight around Wheeler Farm.

PM - decided that I needed to get some hill work in if I am going to survive TOU and St. George (and if I survive Park City next Saturday).  Ran 4 miles up Millcreek Canyon (walked maybe 1/10 of each of the worst uphills - able to keep on trudging otherwise). Rested for a few minutes and then ran down those same 4 miles.  I felt like I was in a race - people were applauding me on the uphills as I passed parking lots.  The piriformis in the left hip bothered me a lot and I felt the left knee for about the second mile of the downhills. 1/4 mile cooldown.

Splits: (comparing the same mile uphill and dowhill)

Miles 1/8  13:28/8:57

Miles 2/7 13:06/8:59

Miles 3/6 12:39/8:52

Miles 4/5 13:26/8:59

Mile 8 was a struggle - the legs were definitely tired from all that uphill and downhill.

Now I'm trying to decide on the rest of the week's schedule and Park City

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AM - 1 mile walking the dog

PM - 5 miles running, 1 mile walking the dog.  Still concerned about the left piriformis.  Just stretched really good. In a while I will roll it out and then ice it.

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Should have run this morning. Wasn't feeling the love and the entire run was a struggle this afternoon.

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Not feeling too well today, so going to take a rest day to recover before Park City on Saturday.

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1 mile walking the dog in the morning.  1 mile walking the dog in the afternoon.  She did not like the heat of the day.

Ran 3 miles in a roundabout way to Wasatch Running Center. Some hormonal teenager skateboarded alongside me for about a block watching me and then finally said, 'Nice Bouncing Betties' and skated off.  I resisted the urge to call him a little perv and just smirked and said Thank You.

Picked up my race packet for Park City (finally - tshirts sizes that someone other than Smooth can wear!).  Bought a bunch of gus and blocks.  My favorite marathon shorts developed 2 holes this afternoon, so bought 2 new pairs to try out.  

That reminds me of a funny story back in 2007 when my 17 year old was training for St. George. Most of his long runs would start at 10 p.m. on his day off (he worked nights cleaning Lagoon) and I would either meet him every hour or so or we would drop water.  The last 5 weeks, I did a couple of runs with him to get him used to drinking every 2 miles like in the marathon. I would drive my jeep ahead 2 miles, park, then run back to meet him and run back to the car and give him drinks and gus and then leap frog ahead.  About 10 miles or so into the run he started complaining that his compression shorts were torn.  I had mended them a month or so earlier - but I guess he was too 'manly'. :-)  Anyway - about 2 stops later he really was complaining because he was starting to chafe on body parts that he didn't like being chafed. I finally came up with the idea of trading shorts.  He climbed in the front of the jeep and I climbed in the back and we threw jackets or blankets over us and traded shorts.  Needless to say - I had a nice breeze the remainder of the run (luckily they were shorts with compression shorts inside the outer short).

2 more miles walking home.

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Race: Park City Marathon (26.2 Miles) 05:34:36, Place in age division: 25
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Too tired to go into detail now - but finished the race as a long training run and was pleased with my fitness considering how crappy my health has been this summer and that I have not felt good since Wednesday morning.

Details and pictures to come....

OK - I rested for a while, so will post more details.  I am not going to post my splits because I did not 'race' this race.  I went into it as a training run for St. George.  This has not been my summer for running between injuries and illness. Even this week I battled being sick Wednesday through Friday and my cough kept getting worse. 

Leslie and I decided to start a little after 5:30 and I was going to pace her at a run 4/walk 1 pace through the marathon.  It turns out they changed their early start method, so we inconvenienced the RD a bit, but she let us start as a second wave.  I think we finally headed out between 5:40 and 5:45 a.m.  Luckily it was warmer up there than the past two years (49 when we started) - so on top I had my UVM shirt, sleeves, and gloves and was pretty warm except for right around sunset.

The first four miles were a challenge in the dark, but we found the course okay with headlamps.  Gary was running as a bandit and Leslie's pacer.  I had planned to stick with Les the entire race, but the first few miles gave me an indication that I was going to move faster than her and since she had Gary, I finally told her I needed to take off at 6 miles.

 

Continued with the 4/1 schedule and was enjoying getting the legs moving faster after that.  The first runner passed me right at 8 miles and was already about 100 yards up on the second place runner, then another 100 yards before the next two runners.

Shortly before that the 4 hot air ballons were up in the air. I always enjoy watching them as I run.

AmberG passed me around 9.5 miles as the second female runner.  She was only about 50 feet back from the number 1 female and I hope she won.  I saw the former #1 & 3 runners at the turn in Park City and never saw Amber, so hope she was in the lead by then.

Davy Crockett passed me around mile 10 and said hi.  I can't believe he ran the equivalent of another marathon on Friday.  He is awesome.

 

I was really hungry about mile 11-15, so started popping in a bit more shot blocks.  I decided the Park City Marathon course is a bit like having a baby.  I only remembered a few uphills, but when you get on the course, you find out most of the first 16 miles is uphill, with a few more thrown in later for fun.  I forget about them after the race. 

Did a little more walking on the steeper uphills through the backside of old Park City and up to Deer Valley.  It is sure nice to get to the top of the parking lot and get some downhills after that. It was starting to get really warm then, but I had a woman offering free showers hose me down pretty good and that helped a lot.

About mile 19.5 I was cruising down the city street when some runner rudely elbowed me. Almost said something not nice when I realized it was RAD, accompanied by a posse of Smooth and Bec.  We said hi and then got our picture taken together at the mile 20 aid station (where I was grateful for bananas and oranges).

 

 

The legs were starting to feel a bit tired and I had a few tiny twinges in what felt like the ITB area on the left knee, but knew I just needed to keep pushing and get done.  Shortly after the old barn, we turn and head through a culvert and I saw my sister up ahead waiting on her bike.  She accompanied me the rest of the race and took pictures for me.  It was great to have her along and see her looking healthy and having fun with me.  She is a great support system (especially since she had to be a nurse tonight from 2-10 and again tomorrow from 6-2).

 

The mailman from my work, Mike DeWaal caught up to me around mile 22.  He pushed me for a mile until Marcia caught up and took our picture and then I dropped my pace again. Mike was running this as marathon number 49, so that St. George will be number 50 for him. 

 

It was nice to pass the final uphill right before mile 25 and get near the end.  I had a great kick at the end - which leads me to believe I had more in me than I knew. But - again - this was a training run, so that is how it should be.

 

Stood around the finish for a while, then walked back out a half mile to meet Leslie and Gary and run back to the finish with them.

 

My sister then took me to lunch at the Cottonbottom Inn for their yummy garlic burgers.

I plan to ice bath tonight and then tomorrow do some ultra marathon prep by doing 11-13 miles slow to get my body used to moving on tired legs.



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33.3024.200.000.0057.50
Montrail Streak Miles: 12.00Vibram FiveFingers Miles: 11.30Brooks Advantage (Blue) Miles: 7.00Mizuno Wave Ascend 3 (2009) Miles: 27.20
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