cheryl

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Location:

So. Jordan,UT,USA

Member Since:

May 12, 2008

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Marathon Finish

Running Accomplishments:

St.George marathon 2009 - 3:34:07. It was a PR on my 11th time running St. George.

Short-Term Running Goals:

Run St. George in under 3:30; be in the top 3 in my age group

Long-Term Running Goals:

Stay strong, run well for many more years. Still set PR's in my 50's.

Learn how to run more relaxed and efficient.

Personal:

I'm married with four children. I run with a group called the Bingham Butt-Kickers, a really fun group of people that gets me out running early on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and sometimes Saturdays. I recently found out that I've been running with poor form for many years, which has probably contributed to some nagging aches and pains I've had for years. One of my big goals now is to be able to run with better form and to have running feel more effortless. I hope this won't take too many years to achieve!

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Thu, Apr 02, 2009

Total Distance

7.00

The group met at the Tithing Hill area. There were a lot of us at first, then after the warm-up, there were just a few of us: Peggy, Rachel, Lisa and me. The others I guess thought it was going to be a tough hill workout and wanted to avoid running hills. Sounds like they're all tapering for Boston. Anyway, the four of us (actually Peggy had to leave early) ran about a 4 mile tempo, down to the Parkway Palisades hill up to 1300 W., then back. That way had the wind at our backs. These are the stats for that run: Time: 18:49; distance: 2.24; avg. pace: 8:25; best: 6:32

Then coming back, with the wind against us, and starting my Garmin a little late, here are the stats: Time: 14:23; distance: 1.67; avg. pace 8:37; best: 7:03

Lisa had to leave, so Rachel and I ran an easy extra 2.5 (at least that's what I did, she ran a little longer) just down to the trail, up the golf course hill and back. Stats: 24:49; 2.5 miles; avg. pace 9:48; best 7:21.

I did feel sick after the tempo run, so that tells me my thyroid is still not normal. I'm hoping in the next couple of weeks that will change.

I've decided all my hamstring, back and other issues have been caused by poor running form, and I think I've figured out (with the help of my chiropractor, Dr. Shane Watt in South Jordan, if anyone's looking for a good chiro) what I've been doing wrong. So today I concentrated on keeping the form good, though it's so easy to fall back into the way I'm used to running, so it's constantly thinking about doing things right. Anyway, I think it helped because I'm less sore and stiff after this run than usual.

Comments

From RAD on Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 14:16:33 from 67.166.99.8

Thanks for the great run with this morning! I've tried to concentrate on form and it is hard!! So, kudos to you for doing it on a long-er tempo run. Hope the thryoid comes back to 'normal' soon!!

From Brent on Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 20:19:46 from 66.7.127.219

Cheryl and the Divine Miss M - you both get 200 commando points today for the Mariah, without Roger Petersen, hiil workout. Cheryl, hope you get back to your old times. Hopefully see you at the 10 year club banquet again this year. We just signed up for St.George.

Thanks for asking about the running, still my first love, only run on race days now, doing the SL Half, du rag and all, have fun and enjoy the day.

By the way, you have be doing some serious cross training, 15% incline. Have you tried hamstring ball excercises?

Stay Kool, B of BS Rools out

From Cheryl on Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 21:47:41 from 76.27.66.153

I hope to be at the 10 year club dinner also. If everything holds up and I'm able to run the marathon, I'll be there. Sometimes I do hamstring ball exercises, but I'm not consistent with them? Do you find they help hamstrings the best? Are you able to run good races when that's the only time you run? In other words, does your cross-training keep you in running shape? I need to do more cross training and a little less running.

From Brent on Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 10:02:31 from 168.178.30.75

Cheryl, the ball hamstring stuff has worked best for me, three times a week. Well, cross training keeps me in cardio shape for running. But, it does not help with the speed. I am now one of the turtles.

Stay Kool, B of BS Rools out

From Kelli on Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 18:16:23 from 71.219.95.20

Yeah, I heard everyone just left!!! Scott had the plan of just running on his own, I hope he told you that before he took off!

Hope you get all of your STUFF figured out! I think form is such a hard thing to work on, I still can not figure it out.

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