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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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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
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
11.00

Ran to the local city park, ran the 1 mile loop, then ran home.  On the way back, we stopped to enjoy the empty lake bed of our famous town lake.  Last year, after 8 years of waiting for a new dam to be built and 14 million dollars later, the town lake was finally back.  Then, just over a week ago, the dam failed and the lake was gone again.  It is now often referred to as "the lake of the damned."  It makes us laugh, but it's sad that so much money was spent for such a shoddy job.   There were steel pylons, cement walls, and then some vinyl stuff.  Is anyone surprised that the part that failed was the vinyl?  Things that make you go hmmmm.

Here's a pix of the dry docks, and one of MR on the "beach"- he's standing in front of a sign that says "no swimming past this point."

We also stopped for just a minute at the local gas station to get a picutre of the guy who rides his horse to the gas station.  He was there with his grandson today buying ice for his saddle bags. 

Wore my new brooks shoes I got this week.  They seemed to be great- no problems.

The best part of the run was the weather.   It was cool and not humid.  Like Christmas in July.  Just perfect :-) 61-70 o , with humidity somewhere  between 87-64% (but it didn't feel that humid...the low temps & nice breeze helped)

avg pace 9:33

Brooks Miles: 11.00
Comments
From Brent on Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 10:11:12 from 66.7.127.219

QP, nice miles, very good, hey, it would be funny to take a picture of the sign with the missing lake in the background, no swimmin beyone this point. In Utah we a few earthen dams that have failed over the years, it just baffles that someone thinks you can cut corners on such a project.

Stay Kool, B of BS Rools out

From RAD on Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 12:37:52 from 67.172.229.125

lol - I remember the alligator, but not that the dam failed. Oh, man... "lake of the damned" :)

Nice run and pace, love the guy with his horses. I don't think I've even seen anyone here ride their horses to the gas station! He must do it quite often.

Weather sounds nice! It's been a bit cooler here as well, sometimes it's nice to have a cool-down in the middle of all the heat!

From KP on Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 11:42:48 from 173.24.255.149

love the pics!

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