I'm back in the saddle again!

Painters 1/2 Marathon

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Location:

Bluffdale,UT,USA

Member Since:

Aug 01, 2008

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Age Division Winner

Running Accomplishments:

Marathon PR St. George 2008 3:36

Ran Boston in April 2009 and had an absolute blast.

Half Marathon PR 1:35.

10k PR-46:20 (Obviously not a great short distance runner:)

Short-Term Running Goals:

I've gotten the running bug back and hope I can continue to enjoy it. I think for now, my short-term goal is to NOT burn myself out. I am pro at doing that. I have a half and full marathon that I am planning on racing in a few months. I hope to be trained well enough to PR in both, but if not...I will enjoy the ride.

Long-Term Running Goals:

Under 1:30 half

3:15 marathon

Personal:

Married with children. 17,16,14,11 and 7. 3 boys, 2 girls. I have the best husband in the world!

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Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	0.00
Pink Nimbus Lifetime Miles:						327.27
Old Pink Nimbus 10 Lifetime Miles:						344.10
Purple Nimbus 11 Lifetime Miles:						314.70
Saucony Triumph 10 Lifetime Miles:						431.90
Saucony Triumph 10 (2) Lifetime Miles:						200.00

Sat, Jan 17, 2009

Race: Painters 1/2 Marathon (13.25 Miles) 01:43:05, Place in age division: 12

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
1.00	11.00	2.10	0.00	14.10

Race time was 1:43. I'll write details later.

Okay, I slept pretty good and we woke up at 7:00. Ate steel cut oats, zip fizz and 1/2 cliff bar. Got to start at 8:35 and found Teena. Julie and I started with her.

Miles

1-8:03 A little faster than we wanted to start.

2-8:06 Pretty good

3-7:59 GU and water stop

4-7:47

5-7:58

6-7:40

7-7:47

8-7:39 I left Julie and Teena because I felt good and wanted to start pushing the pace a bit

9-7:40

10-7:31

11-7:52 GU stop and feeling a little tired

12-7:37

13-7:37

.25-1:42(7:09 pace) -Everyone I talked to measured around this distance on their GPS

This was a good run. It is hard for me to know if I could've done much better because I didn't push it the first 9 miles but started to get tired at the end when I started pushing harder. Although, I passed around 20 women the last 4-5 miles. Always a great thing. Only 2 men passed me from mile 7 on. I feel like I did great considering my slacking during December. Lots of fun.

Blue Nimbus 10 Miles: 14.10

Night Sleep Time: 8.50	Nap Time: 0.00	Total Sleep Time: 8.50

Comments

From Kelli on Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 19:13:33

Great job, details or not. That was a great course and you did a great job!

From britta on Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 21:13:17

Nice time! HAVE FUN IN HAWAII!

From Jody on Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 21:31:36

You did awesome! I felt bad I could not find you guys at the start, but I could not have stayed with you. Congratulations! Have a great time in Hawaii!

From Burt on Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 21:53:27

Great job, Michelle! I'm especially impressed with mile 5. Reading everyone else's blogs, that seems to be the hardest one with the hill. Looks like it didn't slow you down too much.

From Teena on Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 00:29:02

Michelle ... or should I say SuperWoman? You were on fire!! You and your singing ... you make me laugh.

Nice race. I can only imagine how fast you would have been had you not held back the first 8 miles.

Very cool!

Have fun in Hawaii.

From erico on Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 02:08:55

Great job Michelle!

It is amazing to look at the split times people are reporting. Everyone seemed to have a great race. I was surprised that the report did not include any potty breaks! The bladder must cooperated this time in St. George (ha, ha)!

From RivertonPaul on Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 10:53:41

Kudos to the step runner!

From peggy on Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 12:06:15

Way to go on passing all those women! That always makes me feel good, too. Great race!

From Cheryl on Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 12:14:55

Yes, great race. Those are great split times. Now go have lots of fun in Hawaii!

From jona on Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 15:26:07

Michelle, great race! Was good to meet you.

From Marion on Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 20:01:55

Michelle- It was SO great to meet you! You had an AWESOME race! I want to be you when I grow up ;) FANTASTIC!!! Are you doing Ogden?

From Michelle N. on Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 23:13:39

Thank you all!!!

Marion-I am doing Boston and then Ogden full so I will see you there:) Great job again.

From Andy on Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 15:44:23

Great race. It looks like you really held back for a few miles. You are in great shape even though you think that you "slacked off" for a couple of months.

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