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June 2011

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Location:

Hope Mills,NC,USA

Member Since:

May 12, 2009

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

78.6 miles at Hinson Lake 24 hour ultra 2013

Short-Term Running Goals:

Mike to Mike Marathon- May 2014

Hinson Lake 24 hour ultra -Fall 2014

Long-Term Running Goals:

Run till the day I die and still enjoy it

Comrades---long, long, long term

Personal:

Married

2 children

2 chickens

cat

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Mizuno Lifetime Miles: 508.40
NB Trail Lifetime Miles: 94.40
New-zuno 9's Lifetime Miles: 515.83
Pinky Gladys Gutzman Lifetime Miles: 502.11
Brooks Lifetime Miles: 517.83
New Brooks Lifetime Miles: 507.28
New Minuno Pink Lifetime Miles: 519.24
MiZuni FLAMES Lifetime Miles: 470.24
Merrell Vibrams Lifetime Miles: 20.86
Mizuno Alchemy 8 Lifetime Miles: 586.59
MIzuno Alchemy 12 Lifetime Miles: 497.80
Brooks 13 Lifetime Miles: 577.62
Brooks 12 Lifetime Miles: 410.66
Brooks 13 New Green Lifetime Miles: 440.91
Brooks 13 New Blue Lifetime Miles: 445.67
Green Machine Brooks 13 Lifetime Miles: 560.25
Shiny Blue Asics Lifetime Miles: 164.85
Dreamy New Balance Lifetime Miles: 402.57
Total Distance
105.33
New Minuno Pink Miles: 66.47New Brooks Miles: 32.64Mizuno Miles: 3.00NB Trail Miles: 3.22
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Restless night.  I've learned over time that it's easier to catch flies with honey than with "other stuff," but when I see someone treat my kids bad, and then blame my child for their lack of self control, I get defensive and mean.  I kicked the hornet's nest yetserday, and now my mind is just full of stuff that makes it hard to sleep.

So I knew I needed to run some of those crazy demons out.  I did a tempo run today.  My goal was to keep it under 9mm and keep pushing.  My splits were 9:00, 8:33, 8:30, 8:27.  overall a 1 minute faster pace than my  Monday run (also only 1/3 the distance).

Stayed in the hood.  No cars, no road kill, nothing but me and the angry hornets buzzing in my head.

New Minuno Pink Miles: 4.00
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6.12

avg pace 9:38.   Testing and end of year activities & paperwork have me swamped right now.  

Lots of relationships based on ultimatums are strong and healthy, right?  Especially teen-age ones?  Teenagers are insane...I should know; I used to be one.

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30 minute elliptical

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12.00

Went running on the trails on base with MR.  7 miles with him, and 5 miles myself while MR rode his bike and brought me water :-)

Lots of photos, but no time to post them yet.  Will update later.

Busy getting ready for company and graduation.  Life feels exhausting right now, and too busy for my liking. 


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Seminary graduation and cake.  More than 1 piece of cake, but only 1 graduate.

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MR went running with me this morning since he has the week off for graduation & company.  

We went out and enjoyed the beautiful morning.  Avg pace 9:29.

Super dead scrambled up orange kitty on the side of the road.  Sorry no photo for today, but I have a feeling he'll still be there next time I run by.  Didn't look like he was going anywhere.

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p90x plyometrics

1 hour of sweatin'  goodness. 

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No running today, I needed 6 hours of sleep and had to sacrifice exercise.  So I'm posting a photo of a blackhawk uh60 at the Sicily drop zone.  They were doing airborne jumps out of the helicopter.  3 jumpers on each side.  This is a photo of the helicopter taking off.

I never tire of watching the paratroopers jump out of aircraft and parachute down.  It's amazing.

 

And of course, here's my favorite jumpmaster :-) I don't know how to get the photo upright.  I guess I need another tutorial in photobucket.  I fixed it there, but it won't copy correctly.

 

2 mile walk through the hood in the evening.

 


 


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Legs still sore from p90x plyo on Tuesday.  It seems like I just can't get used to that video.

Had a good run.  Saw a little lightening, but it was nice outside.  Good breeze to cool off the humidity.  74 degrees at 5 am.  Woo-hoo.  I ran to the overpass, where I tried some sprints uphill, then went down the other side, and sprinted back up.  Happy overall with the pace.  Not any real good treasures on the roadside today, but I took a photo along the roadside where I have a pretty view.  It's a little grainy because it was too dark for my ipod w/o a flash.  But you get the general idea.  Wheat was just cut on the field on the right, and corn is growing on the left.



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30 min elliptical and ab ripper.  It's been a while since I did ab ripper, and it was tough. 

Graduation, Red Lobster, Nap. 

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Ran with Wyatt- MR was a good waterboy.  It was wicked warm by 7:30 am when we started out.  I was ready to quit at mile 2, but felt better after getting the first 4 out of the way.  We went slow and took a few walking water breaks.  Total mileage was over 10, but only 9.5 for running.

There is a huge swamp of cypress trees that we run by (the alligator swamp), which is now filled with water lillies.  It's beautiful, but what I thought was really neat was how the little water pond in the ditch has water lillies in it too.  So that's my treasure for the day.  That and the 2 shotgun shell casings we found.


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2 mile walk in the hood. 

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Had to get up at 230 to take the buccaneer boy to the airport.  Got home in time to go to work. Running just ain't gonna happen today.

I had considered a bike ride in the afternoon, but got roped into putting up the new coop for baby Mojito.  Here's our newest addition:

My daughter felt bad taking the chick away from it's mother, and said she was going to sleep outside on the porch with the chick all night.  Then, 10 minutes later, she came inside without the chick.  She said, "Yeah, that idea went out the window after the chick pooped all over my hands."  I had to laugh.

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And my miles are piling up for the week......NOT.

The cold I've been fighting off has crept into my chest.  I just didn't seem wise to get out and run.  I did 20 min on the elliptical and I'm taking my vitamins.

Last day of work till August :-)

Here's a photo from last Saturday that sums up how I've been feeling:

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walk around the hood in the evening with MR.  2 miles

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I finally woke up feeling better.  Man, it's been a long week.  

I decided to take it easy, so I just ran around the neighborhood.  Went out around 6:30.  Still cool, and the sun was up so I got to leave the headlamp at home.  My watch was dead, so I borrowed MR's.  He has different settings on his, so all I could see was the miles and total time.

I was going to run 4, then decided I'd make it 40 minutes instead.  When I finished and went to 6.check the splits on the watch, I realized he'd had it set for bike instead of run.  So I'm not sure what my splits were.  My average speed however, was 6.7mh.  Oh well.  The little calculator on the side of the blog says that 40:00/4.52= 8.51.  I guess I'll take that. 

I came home and stretched out and then did 30 minutes on the elliptical.  I'm hoping I'll get a bike ride in today too before the rain comes.  I'd like to be able to ride my bike to walmart to return redbox and pick up some photos, but the traffic in that part of town is freaky scary.

I did see a little gray kitten dead on the side of the road, but it made me sad and I didn't want to take a picture of it.  Poor kitten.  We've got too many stray cats here.  I'll quote the great Bob Barker, "Remember folks,  don't forget to spay and neuter your pets."

So instead of dead kittens, I'll put up a photo of the pink dinosaur we saw on our trail run 2 weeks ago.  There was a tornado that went through the houses that are along the trail.  Someone must be missing this ugly critter.  I will call him trail treasure #2.



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14.95 mile bike ride with MR.  Running an errand and getting exercise at the same time.

Then we went car shopping for the rest of the day.  I loathe car shopping.  I did get to eat at Chubby's Tacos, however, so evidently I can be bribed for the cost of a Chubby's fish taco.  

 


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Hot and humid.  After 4 miles, I felt like I was running in a sauna.  My pace slowed down, and I had to take a couple walk breaks to cool off. The occasional shade and breeze was the only thing that saved me.

Considering the heat, humidity, my lack of running this week, and still not 100% back from the cold, I'm pretty happy with my run.  We had lots of fun things to look at. 

Baby horses

Baby cows

 

And decay  dog. He was in an area where there weren't any houses.  Wonder how he got all the way out there.  From the look of his collar, he belonged to someone. :-(


 In the afternoon, we were lucky enough to go to the National Hollerin' Contest.  So much fun and so many memories.  There will be video posted when I can figure out how to share it.  All I can say is "Whhhhhooooooooooo-eeeeeeeeeeee."

 


New Minuno Pink Miles: 10.25
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Happy Father's Day.  10 mile bike ride with MR. And watching the video from the National Hollerin Contest over and over again.

Here's my favorite little bit.  It starts just after the lady is telling a story about how her grandfather asked her if she could holler like a baby pig to help bring the mamma pig back home to the farm. 

Enjoy!

http://s1233.photobucket.com/albums/ff396/quietpirate1/?action=view&current=1308530978.mp4


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Didn't get out as early as I should.  The heat was already nasty.  Thank goodness for breeze.

MR ran with me.  We headed out for 6.  He was KO'd after 4.  I ended up running the last 4 myself.  We saw a dead mouse, a dead bird that seemed to be waving it's wing at us as we ran by, and of course orange kitty...who is pretty much just a head and patches of fur on the roadside now.  

Since I've had too many requests to not post photos of orange kitty, I'll post something just as creepy...  It's another selection from the National Hollerin' Competition.  It's a little ditty the man called the "key" holler.  Listen for the monkey and the donkey in the holler!

http://s1233.photobucket.com/albums/ff396/quietpirate1/?action=view&current=1308621795.mp4


New Brooks Miles: 8.00
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what a nice difference it makes getting out an hour earlier.  It was almost pleasant this morning!

quick out & back- nothing spectacular, just a nice breeze and 2 dead snakes.  They were little snakes, so I didn't stop for photos.

I tried to make it a progressive run. avg pace 9:12. splits were: 9:55, 9:33, 9:24, 9:25, 9:00, 8:22, 7:19 (last .22).  So progressive enough, just that one 9:25 to put me off.  I will blame it on the dog that ran out in the road and I had to turn around and yell at him to go home.  Surely that took more than 1 second?

And now to deal with the little gem of a man who sold me a lawnmower that quit working after I drove it around the yard once.  He was wearing a hat that said Jesus all over it.  Not sure how I feel about that right now.

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National Whitewater Center- more fun than Disneyland.  No running, but we did:

4 hours of Whitewater Rafting

Canyon Crossing -walking on wires across a ravine holding onto floppy ropes, then zipline back across the ravine. Also, obstacle course on wire with ropes.


4 story drop on the superjump

Rock climbing. I actually made it up to the top of the "medium" difficulty line.  Woohoo!


 

After a full day of all this fun stuff, we were exhausted and went to Steak & Shake for dinner.  Love that place :-p


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Back at the National Whitewater Center in Charlotte.  Sore from yesterday, but ready for more fun!!

 Ran 3 miles around the rapids course..or 30 minutes, I didn't have my garmin, so I just went for 30 minutes & figured it was close enough. 

Then we went whitewater rafting first thing in the morning, kayaking on the Catawba river, back to the Canyon Crossing ropeline obstacle course with zipline at the end, and rode the bikes around the rapids course 4 times, around 4 miles.  The trails were closed because of all the rain the previous night.  They want to preserve the integrity of the trails for the Xterra event coming next month!!

We just finished putting on our water shoes for another rafting trip, and as we were going to our 4:30 show time, we saw that they'd opened the trails.   So we bagged the 4:30 trip and got back on the bikes.  We did around 30 minutes on the green trail, which is honestly adventurous for me, and then MR talked me into going on a blue trail.  I had to walk the bike down one super steep little part, and up a couple of super steep parts, but all in all, it was actually really fun. 1 hour total bike time on the trails.  Not sure of the miles.  My arms & legs all got  a workout.

Here's a photo of MR and I on a flat part of the trail that went along the Catawba River.

Then one more river rafting trip where we had lots of fun and ended up swimming a couple of times.  Great times.  I'd recommend the US National Whitewater Center as a great vacation spot for couples & older kids to anyone!!  It's in Charlotte, and if you're coming in the summer time, let me know because I'll meet you there!!!!   http://usnwc.org/



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traveled home from Charlotte and returned to a yard full of tree debris & pine cones.  Took 2 hours to clean it all up. That was my workout for the day.

We missed some wicked storms.  Nice to be home.

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Ran 3 to meet up with Wyatt, then we ran 6.  I haven't run with Wyatt in a long time.  It was nice to catch up a little while we ran and found treasures.  MR was the best waterboy ever, as usual.

Photos of snakey-snake and Pooped out 'Possum below.  Not picutured: the mouse, the bird, and the little box turtle that we saved as he was making his way across the road. 


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I'm reading the book Born to Run.  I'm considering the value of strengthening the muscles in the feet.  Not converted to barefoot running, but strengthening the muscles by walking barefoot seemed like a good idea.  So I went our for what was supposed to be a 1.2 mile walk around the hood.  The asphalt is so rocky that it was painful navigating all the rocks.  I went about .45 miles out, and then the road got really bad, so we turned around & walked back home.  I need to work on toughening up the bottoms of my feet before I do that again!

Since it's Sunday, I decided to post a nice photo of the blossom on my okra plant instead of dead animals.


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Got out early with Wyatt this morning.  We ran the 4 mile hood loop forward then backward.  Saw 2 other people out running.  Evidently my neighbors aren't all the lazy folks I'd had them pegged to be.  At least not 2 of them :-)

And lucky for us, just as we were about to finish, we found our treasure for the day:

It's a headless Spiderman!  MR has attached him to the side of my "Treasure Box" so he's hanging off the edge with his spiderweb shooter hand pointing out.  If you listen really closely, you can hear the song "I'm Awesome" playing in the background.

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cross-training day. 

30 minutes of sweating in the garage on the elliptical followed by 45 minute pilates video.  It's been a while since I did the pilates and I'd forgotten how much I enjoy it.

After that, I went to Wyatt's house and swam in her pool.  You can interpret the word swim to mean "sat on a float."

In the afternoon I got to drive to Raleigh with MR so we could pick up our oldest buccaneer at the airport.  He's been in Thailand for the last 2 weeks having the vacation of his life.  We are supremely lucky to have such a great family!!

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Got up, did my PT exercises and went out for a run.  It was very humid this morning- almost foggy!  But it was cooler too; only 70 degrees!  It stayed overcast all morning, so that was a nice relief from the sun.

I was worried that I wouldn't see any road kill, because I'd gotten to mile 4 without a sighting.  So I took a photo of the cypress swamp with the beaver dam in the front of it.  It's probably hard to see, but there are lilly pads & flowers all over the back half of the swamp in the trees.

I did end up seeing 2 really smashed up snakes after I took this photo, but decided to keep on running instead of stopping for their photos.

The run was kind of a pace/interval run.  2 miles warm up, 2 miles faster, 2 miles slower, 2 miles faster, 1 mile cool down.  Overall AP was 9:10.  Splits were: 9:37, 9:34, 8:43, 8:57, 9:17, 9:14, 8:37, 8:26, 10:04.   The last fast mile was tough on me, but I made it.  Good run!

New Minuno Pink Miles: 9.00
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Wyatt and I went and played with the kids on base this morning.  MR invited us to go on a ruck march with him & his team, so we headed out early with our backpacks, phone books & rocks.

We did almost 4 miles on the trails hauling our packs.  Mine was a little too heavy for me.  I put in a granite rock, and it ended up weighing around 40 pounds.  Next time, I'll use phone books or smaller rocks. I managed to do okay on the trails, but later that night, my knee was sore.  

After our packs were off and the kids were getting ready to go to work, we went for a quick run on the trails.  Running seemed like a breeze without the extra weight!!  It was 3 miles on some hilly trails, and we did pretty good. Lots of fun.

Then I came home and decided it was finally time to watch Gone With the Wind.  I watched it while I baked chocolate banana bread and a huge batch of oatmeal chocolate chip cookies.  It took me almost the whole 4 hours, but I finished both of them :-) 

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New Minuno Pink Miles: 66.47New Brooks Miles: 32.64Mizuno Miles: 3.00NB Trail Miles: 3.22
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