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Location:

South Weber,UT,United States

Member Since:

Mar 05, 2013

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Half Marathon Finish

Running Accomplishments:

Current PRs

5K: SLCTC Winter Series 19:06

10K: Phoenix 10K 2014 39:11

10 miles: Striders WRC 2014 1:06:13

Half Marathon: Dogtown Half February 2014 1:25:09

Marathon: 3:19 I ran the Ogden Marathon in May 2009

 

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

Our family is complete with 4 sweet girls. Now it's time for me to shed the weight and get back into running shape for good. I'm ready to work at it again in 2017!

Long-Term Running Goals:

Long-term running goals, Sub 3 hour marathon and 1:20 half marathon. 

Personal:

I'm married to my great husband Riley Cook. He helps me accomplish my running goals. We have 4 daughters Evelyn, Hannah, Nora, and Iris I'm also excited to be running for Utahrunning.com.

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Asics Flat Pink Lifetime Miles: 138.47
Brooks Ravenna Lifetime Miles: 348.10
Asics C. Lifetime Miles: 345.37
Adidas Lifetime Miles: 15.90
Total Distance
170.45
Asics2 GT-2000 Miles: 67.31Saucony Miles: 47.86Asics GT-2000 Miles: 54.83
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Total Distance
8.00

Felt a little better today, glad to get through an 8 mile run.

Asics2 GT-2000 Miles: 8.00
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8.60

Finally felt like I was getting back on track today. I did a 4 tempo today with Sariah and Angie started out conservative and went faster later in the run. 2 miles warm up and cool down. Splits 6:20, 6:33, 6:10, 6:13

Saucony Miles: 8.60
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8.00

Ran in North Ogden with my sister in law, she did really well. Nice change of scenery.

Asics2 GT-2000 Miles: 8.00
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15.10

Cold morning, slick roads, fell hard once but good run with a good group. Sariah, Katie, and Angie. It went by really fast.

Asics GT-2000 Miles: 15.10
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0.00

I have been very ill since Sunday. I caught a nasty bug and haven't been able to do anything including running. I'm down and out. Hoping my misery will end soon.i haven't been this sick in a long time.

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Total Distance
4.17

Finally felt up to a run today just took it easy. Not feeling 100% yet.

Asics GT-2000 Miles: 4.17
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Total Distance
7.50

Ran in South Weber in the nice weather. Feeling better today.

Asics2 GT-2000 Miles: 7.50
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Total Distance
7.10

Run in South Weber, AP 7:40

Asics2 GT-2000 Miles: 7.10
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6.00

6 miles in Ogden two miles faster to get my legs moving and ready for my race this saturday. 6:42, 6:38. Not sure what I will run the St. George half in after being out with illness last week. But happy to be running somewhere warm. 

Asics GT-2000 Miles: 6.00
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Total Distance
5.00

Ran easy in South Weber

Asics2 GT-2000 Miles: 5.00
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4.35

Run in Ogden

Asics GT-2000 Miles: 4.35
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Race: St George Half Marathon (13.24 Miles) 01:27:26, Place overall: 7, Place in age division: 1
Total Distance
15.74

Ok, I'm glad I was able to go down and race. It had been a rough last 2 weeks with sickness. Feeling OK about the race and happy I placed first in my age group. I didn't have a lot of expectations going into the race, I thought I would try and keep the pace at around 6:30-6:35. I fell off the pace a little bit in miles 10-12, I need to work on that in my training. This was still an improvement from the Snow Canyon Half I ran in early November even though the time doesn't reflect that but this was a harder course. So hoping I can start stepping up my training in this next session. 

The gun went off and I tried to keep it in the 6:30s here's splits for the first half,  6:24, 6:33, 6:26, 6:28, 6:29, 6:40, 6:43 miles 6 and 7 had some good uphill.Mile 8 6:35, mile 9 6:32. Then I got to complacent and let the next 3 miles slip away from me and didn't push like I should've, 6:52, 6:50, 6:54 This is the part of the race i need to work on I need to push through ALL miles. The last mile I woke back up, got back to 6:29, and ended up passing the girl that was in my age group for first. 

Saucony Miles: 13.24Asics2 GT-2000 Miles: 2.00
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Total Distance
6.11

Ran easy in South Weber, not as sore as I thought I would be from the race. Ready to figure out some goals for the Ogden Half I'm running in May. 

Asics GT-2000 Miles: 6.11
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7.00

Ran in South Ogden while Sariah and Angie ran a workout. Feeling recovered from the race, I'll probably do a workout Thursday. AP 7:43

Asics2 GT-2000 Miles: 7.00
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6.00

Run in South Weber. AP 7:35

Asics2 GT-2000 Miles: 6.00
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Total Distance
7.37

Today I was thinking I would do some 400s but then decided to do a tempo instead since i didn't really have a good place to do the 400s. The tempo was just going to be based on how I felt rather hitting  a certain pace. I tried not to look at my watch while I was running. Splits (6:30, 6:34, 6:28, 6:20)

Saucony Miles: 7.37
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Total Distance
5.30

Cold and windy morning in South Weber. I wore some of Riley's fancy running clothes and realize he's had me running in rags. His expensive running clothes completely block out cold it was amazing.  

Asics GT-2000 Miles: 5.30
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Race: SLCTC Winter 5K (3.14 Miles) 00:19:06, Place overall: 6, Place in age division: 1
Total Distance
10.50

This was a PR for me, so I'm happy with how it turned out. I was so close to breaking 19 minutes I wish I would've realized that sooner in the race and went for it. I tried not to look at my watch during the race and just go after it. I was shocked at the pollution out there, it did not do wonders for my lungs. 5Ks just feel fast to me now and are over so quickly. I enjoyed the flatness of the course though. I wish I knew my exact splits but my watch is on the fritz right now and I need to get it figured out so I can retrieve my race results. But overall happy with how my race ended and there was a lot of fast competition in both the mens and womens races. Happy for Riley who won!

Saucony Miles: 3.15Asics2 GT-2000 Miles: 7.40
Weight: 0.00
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Total Distance
6.80

Went to HAFB gym today with the kids and ran on a nice treadmill. They lasted 53minutes in the play area so that's where I ended. I was trying to push for 60 minutes but in all honesty 53 minutes was a success with the kids. 

Asics GT-2000 Miles: 6.80
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Total Distance
8.00

I did a tempo run today on the South Ogden loop. Warmed up 2 miles and did a 4 mile tempo with the goal of 6:20s, I was pleasantly surprised by the outcome here's the splits 6:19, 6:20, 6:10, 6:12. 2 mile cool down. 

Saucony Miles: 8.00
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Total Distance
9.31

Got a run in while my friend watched kids. Hoping to get on the treadmill later and get a few more miles in.

 

Ran at HAFB treadmill this afternoon. 4 more easy miles

Asics2 GT-2000 Miles: 9.31
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7.50

I went to HAFB again today to do a workout on the treadmill. I did 6x1000, what I actually did was 5:52 pace on the treadmill for 3:40 six times with 2 minute jog in between, (not sure if that makes sense). I don't know how to adjust treadmills to do the workout I want and I didn't have time to figure it out. I cut my cool down short because I had to use the restroom.

Saucony Miles: 7.50
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Total Distance
7.00

Easy run on the treadmill at the gym I'm glad my kids did well there this week.

Asics GT-2000 Miles: 7.00
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Total Distance
170.45
Asics2 GT-2000 Miles: 67.31Saucony Miles: 47.86Asics GT-2000 Miles: 54.83
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