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Siberian Express

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Location:

Rantoul,IL,

Member Since:

May 12, 2008

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Marathon Finish

Running Accomplishments:

1/2 marathon  1:43:09--Illinois Marathon, April 2013

10K: 46:50--Safe Kids Run in Crystal Lake Park, April 2010

5K: 22:07--Jingle Bell Run, December 2009

Short-Term Running Goals:

Do another marathon AFTER GOOD TRAINING

 

1/2 marathon in 1:41 or under

 

Break Burt's 5K PR by 1 second

 

10K in 46:00 or under

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

Keep encouraging my family in their development of a healthy lifestyle

 

God willing, I will run until the end.

Personal:

I run with God. I use my running time to contemplate, to pray and to listen for His call. I'm married to a non-runner, but a supportive one, and we have four children.

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Iso Lifetime Miles: 133.20
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
27.253.7531.00
Virrata Miles: 13.00Kinvara Miles: 18.00
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
4.001.005.00

A treadmill run.

Virrata Miles: 5.00
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
5.001.006.00

There. 1000 miles. Meh.

Kinvara Miles: 6.00
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
2.001.003.00

Treadmill!

Kinvara Miles: 3.00
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
3.250.754.00

I have been a lazy blogger.

We got some snow, enough to make running outside in the dark too much of a hazard.

I shoveled for an hour and a half. Since we live by a field, the snow blows and settles in crazy patterns. The lawn was bare in some spots and 6 or 7 inches in other spots. Our driveway had drifts by the garage and at the bottom. The rest was easy to shovel. The end of the garage was the hardest to dig out.

Then when Chuck got home we had some family time. Finally I ran after the kids were in bed. It'll be treadmill for a few days, though I might go out to do a trail race on Saturday.

Virrata Miles: 4.00
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
4.000.004.00

A treadmill run in the later evening. Now to decide if I'm going to drive an hour for a trail race tomorrow. I'm leaning toward yes, but it will depend on the temp tomorrow morning. If it's in the teens, I'm okay.

Virrata Miles: 4.00
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Race: Siberian Express (7.45 Miles) 01:16:00
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
9.000.009.00

Miles 1: 9:14

Mile 2: 9:19

Mile 3: 9:15

Mile 4: 9:09

Mile 5: 12:24

Mile 6: 11:10

Mile 7: 11:17

Last .46: 10:03

You can clearly see where this race went so horribly wrong for me. The last time I did this race was 4 years ago. It was very cold back then, but not a lot of snow. This time, it wasn't terribly cold (in the 20s with a wind chill in the teens), but we just got about 8 inches of snow. I did NOT use screw shoes because I am not smart.

Mile 5 was slow partly because it contained a hill that you would be a fool to run up (if the entry about the last time I did this race is to be believed, it is about .2 long and winding, but I didn't look this time at my watch).

But mile 5 also began my undoing. No joke: I fell every time there was a downhill and on almost every uphill. The second or third time I fell and bent my thumbnail back so much that I think my nail may eventually fall off. I knew it hurt, but I didn't examine it until the race was over and I was at my car.

After that point, I stopped really caring about the race and just concentrated on the running part. I intentionally slid down a few hills. On about 5 occasions, I told a bunch of people to pass me because I didn't want to be that guy, you know the one who slows everyone down when the trail narrows. Unfortunately that included at least 2 women each time. I cared, but only in a remote and detached way.

My original goal was top ten women. Ha. I just barely made it in the top 25. I think I was 24 because they gave out the last t-shirt to a woman when I was still in the chute (prizes were to the top 25 women). I mean, I'll take the t-shirt and the medal, but don't feel good about most of what happened here. I'll update my time and place when they post results.

My miles for today include a mile warm up and a .55 cool down to make my mileage even. After my cool down I grabbed a snowball to ice my thumb on the way home.

Next time: screw shoes. I don't think they would have stopped every fall, but they would have given me more security and thus I would have been riskier and faster on the hills in the last half of the race.

Kinvara Miles: 9.00
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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
27.253.7531.00
Virrata Miles: 13.00Kinvara Miles: 18.00
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