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Location:

North Salt Lake,UT,

Member Since:

Jan 04, 2011

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

  • 5K 
    • '08 SLC 33:11
    • '10 Winter Series 24:49
    • '10 Salt Lake Run Co 23:37
  • 10K 
    • '98 Des News 56:33
    • '99 Des News 49:52
    • '10 Des News 44:48
  • Half 
    • '10 Canyonlands 1:54:22
    • '10 SLC Half 1:45:32
    • '10 Provo Valley 1:44:04
    • '10 Provo River 1:43:56
    • '10 Snow Canyon 1:40:18
    • in 2012 I did Snow Canyon at 5 months post baby and got 1:45 - I was pretty proud about that!
  • Full
    • '08 SGM 5:54:00
    • '10 SGM 3:55:19

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

Focusing on cardio and strength training so I can push baby out in record time come early spring '15. ;)

Long-Term Running Goals:

Qualify for Boston.

Break 1:40 in the half.

Personal:

We have a 2 year old girl and we're expecting baby #2. :) I'm a NICU nurse working full-time nights.  

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Kinvara 3 Lifetime Miles: 63.20
Asics Nimbus 15 Lifetime Miles: 62.00
Race: Wedding Bells 5K (3.11 Miles) 00:30:08
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
0.000.003.110.003.11

I had so much fun at the 5K today!  Thanks Allie and James for putting that on.  It was fun to celebrate your special day with you!  It was also great to meet so many FRB runners in person.  I met Allie, Bonnie, Tara, Kam, Kelli, Catherine, Eric (facelessghost), Andrea, Jake K, Carina, James (fiddy) and the entire Sasha Pachev family!  I also saw RAD after her awesome 1:30 AF Half finish time!  Today was really inspiring.  It was great to be surrounded by so many runners who work hard each week and are dedicated to such a positive activity.  I think the most inspiring part of today was watching all those Pachev kids kick some major trash!  They are incredible.  It was fun to watch Jake and Andrea's team fly around the track, too.

Anyway, here is my race report: I've got my work cut out for me.  I could pretty much stop there. :)  I wanted to get a good baseline, so it was nice to have this flat 5K today.  And let me tell you, we're starting pretty low here folks.  But I guess that's too be expected since it's only been 5 weeks since baby girl came.  It's been about 1.5 years since I've been where I want to be running wise, but now I can start working on it again and I'm happy about that.

  • Lap 1 - 2:07, 8:30 AP oooops, rookie mistake 
  • Lap 2 - 2:21, 9:38 AP
  • Lap 3 - 2:27, 10:05 AP this is when I thought "how long are these stupid 5K's anyway??"
  • Lap 4 - 2:28, 10:12 AP
  • Lap 5 - 2:31, 10:10 AP
  • Lap 6 - 2:34, 10:20 AP
  • Lap 7 - 2:35, 10:04 AP
  • Lap 8 - 2:46, 11:03 AP
  • Lap 9 - 2:25, 9:32 AP
  • Lap 10 - 2:28, 9:50 AP
  • Lap 11 - 2:15, 9:16 AP
  • Lap 12 - 2:05, 8:28 AP
  • Lap 12.5 - :59, 7:40 AP wanted to see what my current VO2Max is

Thanks to Tara and Kam for making sure I didn't have to be out there by myself at the end! It really helped to have them helping through the end! :) 

Kinvara 2 Miles: 3.11
Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Smooth on Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 12:31:15 from 174.27.192.130

Yay! CONGRATZ! What a fun race to celebrate your back to running! You are doing so awesome! Very happy for you! :)

From glidergirl on Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 12:40:28 from 71.35.231.152

Thanks Smooth! :) Wish you could run, too. But you'll be back and eventually all this SF stuff will be so far behind you. :)

From catherine on Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 18:05:36 from 98.202.112.38

It was great to meet you! Congratulations on a wonderful race!

From watchmerun on Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 08:36:44 from 166.70.212.36

Great job, Brooke! Just think how much fun you are going to have over the next few months where you will get faster, literally, every week. We don't get to make progress that fast very often. It will be a fun time for you. Keep it up!

From glidergirl on Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 08:52:03 from 71.35.231.152

Catherine, it was so good to meet you, too! Your baby is beautiful! Love those big brown eyes. :)

Thanks Matt! That is a good way to look at it. :) It will be nice when I don't feel like a slug moving through tar! It's so nice to be running normal again. :)

From allie on Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 08:58:23 from 97.117.94.148

so glad you could come! you did great.

From Tara on Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 17:14:16 from 75.169.155.164

Way to go Brooke! Good baseline for sure. You will bring that time down in no time. I am still impressed with you, just having a baby. Geeze. I added you to the automatic texts for the girls run by the temple. I will add you to the facebook page for group runs. They are exasperated.

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