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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
50.20
New-zuno 9's Miles: 30.20Pinky Gladys Gutzman Miles: 20.00
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walked two miles in the evening...pretty warm outside today but the humidity is horrible

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Total Distance
9.40

72 : 82-84% humidity at 4:45 am!!!  I had on shorts and a performance tank.  They were both wet with sweat after only one hour of easy running.  It was icky!!  Once in a while the breeze came and it was nice, but the rest of the time, yuck.  We're supposed to get big storms here today & tomorrow. 

I brought my running stuff if it's not raining after school to do bleachers.  I brought an unbrella if it is.  We could really use some rain, so I'm not going to complain if it does rain today.  I might complain if it's still raining tomorrow morning when I'm going out to run, but I'll worry about that tomorrow.  It might actually be fun :-)

My pace was slow today.  It took me a long time to warm up my muscles.  They were still achey from Saturday's run.  Today I was happy that my last mile was under 9, when last week I was happy to get one under 8.  Funny how things can change like that.  By mile 4 I was staring to feel "normal" and not stiff and awkward running.  I was glad that the feeling finally came- I was wondering if the aches would ever go away.

Looking forward to a good week of running...hopefully the weather will cooperate!

3 miles later- 2 running with 1 bleacher mile in the middle

New-zuno 9's Miles: 9.40
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Total Distance
0.00

no way I was going to get up and run with only 3.5 hours of sleep..I knew I had a long, full day... so here's my goose-egg

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Total Distance
9.40

Up and at 'em early again.  It was super foggy this morning.  Couldn't see with my glasses on because they fogged up..couldn't see with them off either..just too foggy. 

I almost got attacked by the bush on the side of the road that someone had thrown out with the trash.... 4 times!

Moisture wicking shorts: $25, using bathroom before running:  1.5 gallons of water, not seeing the sprinkler because of the fog and getting sprayed in the pants: priceless

interrupted the bunnies again this morning....silly rabbits!

 

New-zuno 9's Miles: 9.40
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Total Distance
11.40

Felt sloggish running today.  Fog wasn't as bad, but it was still foggy & humid.  The temp was a little lower (62 predicted) and when I caught a breeze, it felt good.

Avg pace was 8:44.  Not as good as my same intended effort last Thursday, and there was no way I was pulling a sub 8 out of my pocket for the last mile either.  I didn't have a real recovery run yesterday due to no run Tuesday, and I wonder if that made any difference in my struggle today.  There's so many variables, it's hard to know for sure.

Maybe I'll get in a couple slow easy miles after work today.  It's supposed to be 92o outside today, so I'm going to have to see what the heat/humidity tolerance level is by that time of the day.  Some days, I have zero tolerance for any weather...it might just be one of those days.

Attempting a 20 miler on Saturday.  Hope the weather/humidity cooperates with us.  We may start out before daylight to try and beat some of the heat.

Best part of the morning run:  one word- honeysuckle.................it smells so great!

hot, but not as humid after work...2 miles: 1.75 bleachers and 1/4 of an easy cool down lap.

New-zuno 9's Miles: 11.40
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Total Distance
20.00

started at 6:30.  no regrets there.  nice breeze in our faces most of the way, a lot of shade, very low humidity. 10:10 ap

beautiful day for a run.. honeysuckle growing crazy on the side of the road most of the way..what a nice olfactory treat! 

went out for a yummy lunch at a local place in the town we ran to.  Still hard to believe we ran to Lumberton.  Pretty cool.

Mr played water boy on the bike...he did a great job.  Made us laugh along the way.

Saw 1 dead puffy cat, 1 dead not puffy at all cat, 1 dead bobcat, 1 dead fox, lots of UDO (unidentifiable dead objects), 2 dead snakes - one cottonmouth and one w/o his skin...hard to tell what he was other than big.   And...we saw the house with big objects up on poles in the front yard.... a car, a plane, and a life-sized trike.  Mounted on the front of the trike was a huge troll head....Just when I thought I'd seen everything.

Happy Mothers Day to everyone on Sunday!

Pinky Gladys Gutzman Miles: 20.00
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Total Distance
50.20
New-zuno 9's Miles: 30.20Pinky Gladys Gutzman Miles: 20.00
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