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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
42.22
Pinky Gladys Gutzman Miles: 13.00Brooks Miles: 29.22
Total Distance
0.00

nada- last day of vacation- slept in & it was 93o out when I got up.

So we worked on building a chicken coop for Mimosa.  I figured out how to use the mitre saw, and that little shack is lookin' pretty good.  We got it all finished except for putting the chicken wire on the top of the pen area.  Gotta keep that ugly little thing safe from predators.

Did you know opossum will kill & eat chickens?  I had no idea.  The things you learn. 

It was a "reading rainbow" moment for me.

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Total Distance
9.00

76o 85% humidity- 4:35 am           Not too shabby.

Garmin quit working before .10 miles..batter low.  Oh, well.  I knew what the distance was because I'd just done it recently. 

I've never run this certain road in the dark by myself before.  But I couldn't bear to bring myself to run circles in the 'hood.  So I set out on the  "busy" street.  The first 6 miles, there weren't many cars.  12 total going out & back.  So avg one car every 5 minutes, but it wasn't really like that...there were some spots where I didn't see a car for 1.5 miles.  It is all fields with just a house here & there.  quiet & nice.

The second part of my run, the last 3 miles, were in the other direction on that road, and it was busy.  It got busier as time went on.  I guess it was around 6 when I ended, and by then people were up & driving to work.  This part of the run has houses & neighborhoods along the road almost the whole way. I had 21 cars and one school bus go by in those 3 miles.   

I think in the future, I'm better off going back on the farm end of the road. It would be repeating the same path, but there probably won't be as many cars. 

No road kill, just an empty can of cocktail weiners.  probably made out of roadkill!

No idea what my pace was, but I could feel that I was changing gears and speeding up after a couple of miles warmin up.  I'm confident that I had a good pace- and I was pleased that I finished feeling strong.

got home, stretched, and did 100 crunches on the ball.  Then I got ready for work, and looked at the agenda they'd sent for the week, and noticed that we are starting an hour later today than normal.  I could kick myself in the butt...I could have slept in another hour!!!  AAARRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!  

But it gave me time to work on this little blog and I got to eat my chocolate oatmeal breakfast again.  Haven't had that for a while :-)

Now it's off to work I go..... I sure did enjoy my vacation.

Pinky Gladys Gutzman Miles: 9.00
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Total Distance
7.22

4:50 am 78o , 80-84% humidity.   It's sad when it feels like a sauna at 4:50 in the morning.  Lately, I've felt like the simplest breeze is a tender mercy of the Lord sent just for me.

progressive run.  I was supposed to do 2 speed miles, but I did a lot of rationalizing and figured since I was planning a longer run tomorrow, and did a good pace yesterday, that I should take it easy today.   So I started out at a recovery run pace, but I found that the longer I ran, the better I felt.  So it just progressed.  The last mile I tried running at my speed mile pace and was pleased that I actually managed to go faster than my goal.  The last .22 miles was just to get back to the house and for fun.

It was cool though, because I haven't seen a 6 in my pace (unless it was on my bike) all summer.

avg pace 9:35.  splits: 11:23, 10:15, 9:54, 9:43, 9:26, 9:04, 7:52, 6:56 (yeah baby, yeah!!!)

Ran in the hood today- evidently over the summer, the stray cat population has increased- there were cats everywhere.    I like it when the headlamp reflects in the cat's eyes at night.

off to do my crunches & then to work...no hour delay today :-(

 

Brooks Miles: 7.22
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Total Distance
8.00

9:56 avg pace- ran with Wyatt...late work start today

6:30 am 74o 94% humidity

Brooks Miles: 8.00
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Total Distance
4.00

kept it simple because I have long run tomorrow and want to have plenty of energy for it.

Fartleks.  I only meant to do 3 miles, then when I was almost home, I looked and was at 3.77...so I just finished to 4.  Too early for my brain to think straight I guess.

avg pace 8:55.  splits 9:59, 9:01, 8:24, 8:17.  Progressive Fartleks I guess.  Only 9 speed sessions of fartleks.  I'm not sure how often I'm "supposed" to do them, but I just do them when I get to a cul-de-sac... except once when I was thinking of something else and realized I missed the speed part after I finished the circle. 

Glad it's Friday. 5:30 am, 75o - 93% humidity

Pinky Gladys Gutzman Miles: 4.00
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Total Distance
14.00

this 14 was better and easier than last week's 14. 

70-72o with 92% humidity.   Dew point was always 2o below actual temp and it was foggy, foggy, foggy until the last 4 miles.

met up with the black lab dog we've seen before at mile 4.5.  He followed us for the next 5.5 miles.  Once we were back in town at the gas station, I went in for ice, and he found someone else to follow.  At that point he was only about a mile from home.  Wyatt figured he probably knew his way around town & back home.  I hope so.    He actually came in handy when another dog that didn't look so friendly came charging out towards us.  Black lab came up to the dog & distracted him so we could run off.  The only thing I didn't like was that the dog was back & forth in the road with all of the cars.  Surprised he wasn't hit.  And I imagine most people assumed he was our dog and we were being irresponsible running out there with him off a leash.   If they only knew...

I love the company & not having to run by myself.  I just need to get our pace up.  Or quit worrying about it and enjoy the journey.  I think I may go with door #2.   Wyatt may  do the same training plan I'm on.  She's considering a marathon in Nov as well.

lots of baby turtle road kills.  I wonder if it's related to the recent rainstorm we had. 

Brooks Miles: 14.00
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Total Distance
42.22
Pinky Gladys Gutzman Miles: 13.00Brooks Miles: 29.22
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