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Location:

Murray,UT,

Member Since:

Oct 02, 2007

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Age Division Winner

Running Accomplishments:

Div. 1st at Hobble Creek 2007 with time 1:46, St.George marathon PR of 3:45, finished ahead of my hubby Brent at 2006 St.George.  Ran two marathons TOU and St.George in three weeks.

Short-Term Running Goals:

Set a PR at St.George 2008, get faster without injury

Long-Term Running Goals:

Run forever, enjoy with wind in my hair, smell the roses on each run and keep running fun.

Personal:

Three sons, two of them have run the St.George Marathon. 

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Sat, Feb 16, 2008
Race: Striders winter series 5K (3.1 Miles) 00:28:10
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
2.000.003.100.000.005.10

Why did they have to start the race at 8 am? It was very cold and far from home this morning. Because I knew it was really cold I took my mask for my asthma and I was glad I did. The course was mostly dry but at most corners and intersections there was a snow-ice combo, so hop scotch was the order of the day. The hills were the big obsticale for my hamstring and breathing, too bad there was more up hill than down hill.

Mostly I feel it was a wake up call for how much I need to do more hill training!

Sylvie over and out

Comments
From Brent on Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 15:01:11

Sylvie, I think you had a better race today than the 5K 3 weeks ago. This was a much tougher course and day. Very good effort digging to the end.

Stay Kool, the hills are alive, B of BS Rools out

From Tom on Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 15:12:39

Good job Sylvie! I think we all could use more hill training. Hope the asthma and hamstring issues diminish over the next while.

From Sasha Pachev on Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 15:34:48

I wonder how much your ability to run hills comes from the actual hill training, and how much just from properly replenishing carbs and getting good sleep. On a good day when I feel snappy I run well overall and barely notice hills. On a bad day, the hills bother me, I slow down relative to the already slow pace more. At the end of a marathon the first sign of trouble for me (and I noticed for the competition as well) is excessive slow down on the uphill.

From Tom on Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 18:55:08

Sasha your comment reminded me that although in my training runs the hills have seemed more troublesome than they should be, during the Painters 1/2 they didn't bother me at all, like you said I barely noticed them. I heard people complaining about all these hills the last 1/2 of the race and I'm thinking "what hills?".

Probably good to remember the importance of good diet and sleep and perhaps even a bit of taper before the hilly races.

From Cody on Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 21:33:55

Well done considering the conditions. There was some tricky footing at those intersections. Keep up the training and you will be showing Brent who is boss.

From Jody on Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 21:54:50

Great job today!! Way to run the hard course! Keep it up!!

From Lybi on Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 22:54:13

Way to go, Sylvie! Sounds like a pretty tough course, but it was clearly no match for you!

From MichelleL on Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 18:06:08

Hey Sylvie, I'll put the same comment on your blog I put on Brent's, how about putting up your PR's for your shorter races on the left so that we can see how this race compares to other 5k and 10k times you have done.

I hear you on the 8am start time. In the winter there is no need for a race to start earlier than 9:30 in my opinion.

From Jon on Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 21:59:33

Nice job- are you guys doing the whole training series?

From Sylvie on Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 21:25:08

Thank you all for the good comments and sugestions. I just feel lucky to run without more problems at my age, one of the most limiting problems is my asthma between the cold and the hills my lungs shut down about 25 percent it feels alot like bronchitis. I use two inhailers one long acting and one short acting but both failed to work 100 percent Saturday.

What I plan to do for the rest of these winter series runs is use them as tempo training runs. So I'm not going to worry so much about times, as long as I feel like it was a good hard workout.

Sylvie over and out

From Christi on Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 13:30:24

This sounds like a tough winter 5k! Great job!

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