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Location:

Draper,UT,

Member Since:

Jun 11, 2009

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

5K- 16:37

6K CC - 19:55

4 miles- 22:10

10K- 34:38

15K- 49:57

Half Marathon- 1:12:03

20K - 1:08:38

Marathon- 2:35:49

Short-Term Running Goals:

Stay fit and have fun doing some local races.

Get my youth cross country team, www.racecats.org off the ground.

Long-Term Running Goals:

Feel energized. Stay healthy and balanced

Personal:

Four awesome kids ages 4, 8, 10, and 12 years old. Love to run, play, and write. Married to entrepreneurial Aaron.

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Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	0.00
Book Dissolved Lifetime Miles:						6539.00
Altra Intuition Lifetime Miles:						35.00

Mon, Feb 08, 2010

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
3.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	3.00

3 miles on the treadmill in 8:35 ave. pace plus 30 minutes on the elliptical, 20 minutes of core/hip work and weight lifting

I feel so cautious while running because I don't want to aggravate my hip. I obviously started coming back too fast from my hamstring injury a couple of weeks ago which caused my hip flexor injury, and I want to avoid any possibly re-injury this time. My hip felt a little better than it did Saturday, so I went a little farther after three miles, I decided it was time to enjoy some elliptical fun. I tried three machines before I found one that wasn't squeaky, commenting to the guy I ended up next to about how annoying squeaky machines are. Then of course right as I got settled in another guy jumps up on the squeakiest of the machines a couple of spots down from us and the guy next to me and I just look at each other and roll our eyes. It was really annoyingly squeaky. We commented to each other how surprised we were that the squeak wasn't bothering the guy causing the squeak, yet it was really bothering us and many other exercisers that kept giving him dirty looks. Its like when your own dog is barking in the middle of the night and it doesn't wake you up, only everyone else on your street. Finally, after about 12 minutes of squeaking and receiving dirty looks, he got the hint and stopped the maddness. Thank goodness. We all continued our workout in peace.

Comments

From Burt on Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 13:49:22 from 206.19.214.144

If people were giving me dirty looks for that I would have got off and scratched my fingernails down the chalkboard.

From TBarlow on Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 14:23:36 from 216.194.124.36

Hooray for a good workout Nan! Here's to a speedy recovery!

From Carolyn in Colorado on Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 15:08:51 from 198.241.217.15

Way to stare down the squeaker. But the poor guy just needed an elliptical to work out on. Go stare down the people who run the gym so that they'll fix the squeaky machines.

Good job taking it slow and easy so as to avoid reinjury.

From Bonnie on Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 17:21:51 from 128.196.228.134

What did Ryan say about PRP? Dean is, unfortunately, going in for an MRI soon (he hasn't been able to run consistently for over a year now) -- John (our ART guy) suspects labral tear of the hip (can manifest problems in hamstring). Interestingly, Nick Willis won the mile handily on Saturday, almost a year after having surgery for both the labral tear and impingment in his hip. One of the things that Nick Willis said was proper diagnosis was the most frustrating thing about the whole injury. For us, as you can tell, we have tried just about everything up to now -- a slew of PTs, exercises (both strength and flexibility), PRP, acupuncture ... it is so very hard. And Dean is more than willing to put the time and effort in to get rid of this thing. In a way, I hope it is the tear, at least we know there is something new to try ... though I hate surgeries -- it was nice to see Nick Willis able to compete so well after the surgery.

Hope the hamstring behaves ... and you lose your hearing only at the specific decible that the annoying treadmill transmits ;-).

From runningafterbabies on Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 14:18:11 from 67.177.9.74

And I thought I was the only one to "test" machines until I find the perfect non-squeaking/non shaking perfectly balanced one.

From Nan Kennard on Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 16:19:50 from 174.51.250.151

Burt-Oh, you're THAT guy, huh?

Toby & Carolyn-Thanks :)

Bonnie-My ART guy thought that PRP was a little too early in stages of research and too new to trust yet. He is confident I will get results with ART, and I think I finally am! I'm sorry to hear that Dean is still having problems with his hip. Proper diagnosis can be very frustrating. Surgery is a big decision and a scary one; but sometimes very helpful. Good luck with the diagnosis and decision. If he is willing to keep putting in the effort to heal, I'm sure healing will eventually come.

Melody-Haha, yeah your definitely not alone in your machine testing. :)

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