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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
20.00

The treadmill was waiting for me when I got to the school at 8 am.  MR came along to keep me company and I was thrilled to have Wyatt come and join me for almost 2 hours.

The treadmills look down on the main gym, and at 9:30 when the wrestling competitions started, I had some interesting entertainment.  I've never spent much time at all watching greco-roman wresting, and it was interesting to watch.  I don't like the parts where they shoved each others heads into the mat and shove their faces along the mats, but there's some interesting stuff going on in the world of "real" wresting.  My favorite part was when one guy would pick the other one up and slam them on the mat.  That and when one spectator didn't like the ref's calls and he ran out on the mat and smacked the ref on the back.  Dag-nab-it!  There was almost a little bit of tension and I thought it could be a possible hockey fight on the wrestling mats, but I was let down when everyone decided to just sit down and let the kids keep wrestling.

The wrestling takes center stage on this blog entry because 20 miles on the treadmill is so boring I don't have anything else to say about it.  Wyatt left, MR went online and did stuff on the laptop, and I just kept running till I was done.  I'm glad there was the wrestling match at the school on a Saturday so I didn't have to run in the windy cold again.

We tried to go bowling after my run, and I had such a hard time just walking the ball down the line- hitting pins wasn't on the agenda today.


Brooks 13 Miles: 20.00
Comments
From Terri on Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 17:12:45 from 108.28.226.253

Wow! 20 miles is a challenge but on running on a treadmill is even more of a challenge. Way to stick it out and get it done! Thank goodness the wrestling match gave you a good distraction. Did you learn any good moves?

From RAD on Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 21:32:27 from 67.171.119.50

20 miler on the TM? Better than the hurricane cold you've been dealing with all week, but man oh man...something I've never done that is for sure! Did Wyatt run with you or just visit and watch the excitement below? I'm sure more than one of the spectators wondered why in the world you were STILL up there running after a couple hours :)

Nice work. Way to stay mentally strong.

From Smooth on Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 13:57:30 from 71.35.231.124

Wow!!!! 20 treadmill miles!!! You deserve a medal! It would be torture for me! The most I have run on that thing was 18 miles and I watched a movie! glad the Wrestling match and parent brawl w/ the ref kept you entertained! and no one was arrested for disorderly conduct. :) In your case of sneaking into the high school gym, you could always plead insanity! :). On the other hand, you have amazing mental toughness!!! :) :) :)

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