Emily's training blog

Women's Fitness Celebration 5k

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Location:

Taylorsville,UT,

Member Since:

Sep 17, 2007

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Olympic Trials Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

2 x Deseret News 10k winner

3 x All-American at BYU (back in the day)

10 x state champion in high school (way back in the day!)

3 x USA team member

Short-Term Running Goals:

I would like to run an Olympic Trials Qualifier in the marathon.

I would also like to run on one more international team before I pack it in!

Stay healthy! (My biggest challenge!)

Long-Term Running Goals:

Run my whole life, and then live vicariously through my children. (just kidding) , but I do want to pass on a healthy lifestyle to them.

Help coach East High to a state championship. (hope it doesn't take a lifetime!)

Personal:

I've been running since I was nine. I'm married to a fellow runner who inspires and supports me. We have two children: Cole (4) and Lily (18 mos.) I help Bill Cobler coach cross country at East High School.

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Miles:	This week:	6.20	Month:	39.50	Year:	149.30
NB 580 Lifetime Miles:						49.79

Sat, Sep 20, 2008

Race: Women's Fitness Celebration 5k (3.1 Miles) 00:17:56, Place overall: 8

Easy Miles	Threshold Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Track speed mileage	Hill mileage	Total
5.00	3.10	0.00	0.00	0.00	8.10

The day started out pouring rain. I think that may be the wettest conditions I have ever competed in besides a region cross country meet in Portland in college. I'm sure the weather affected the time a little, but I can't blame the entire race on the weather conditions. I don't think it slowed people down too much.

I'm just not in shape. Especially 5k race shape. I guess I can't expect to run fast when I haven't trained in a month. I've cross trained, and got back to running the last week and a half, but I haven't done the speedwork necessary to run a good 5k. Every time I tried to go with people, or kick, or speed up, the legs just weren't there. I just got in a pace, and couldn't break it, no matter how hard I tried.

I'm FRUSTRATED!!!! I know I'm so much better than how I have been running. There's days I wonder if I have it in me anymore. I'm such a has been now.

I'm having a pity party at the moment. I need to gain perspective and get back to serious training again.

3 mile warm up and two mile cool down made a very wet 8 miles today.

Comments

From Paul Petersen on Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 23:17:51

Well, I can relate. It's certainly frustrating to not be able to train your best and race your best. But keep plugging. For a long time I thought my 5K and 10K PRs were a thing of the distant past, but after a couple good cycles of uninterrupted training I was able to hit and exceed times I was running in college, 6 or 7 years ago. So I believe there's always hope for the has beens, myself being one of them.

From MichelleL on Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 23:25:34

Paul's advice is gold. I think we just have to be smart with our training, train when we can, and hope for some uninterrupted cycles and then cash in with some great performances.

5k's are so fast, you know the training required to run them fast is so risky when you are fighting injury, and not really your focus. I would focus on the marathon or half marathons for now, since tempos are the least likely to negatively affect your soleus.

BTW, you are so very fast, you are not a has been to me, just struggling to stay healthy is all.

Think of today as a great tempo workout (because it was).

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