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Location:

Mesa,AZ,

Member Since:

Apr 04, 2007

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Marathon Finish

Running Accomplishments:

Prs:

1 mile:  6:31

5K:  23:37

Half Marathon: 2:04

My first post-high school 5K, in which I thought I was going to die

The first time I won my age division.  Yippee!

My first half marathon, in which I attack Sasha

The time I beat my high school PR for the 5K (as a 31 year-old mommy of 3!)

My first 5K barefooted

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

I'm just getting back into running after a long break to have my last child.  I would like to race some 10Ks, a half, and a marathon in the next 2 years.

Long-Term Running Goals:

Be the oldest woman to complete a marathon.  Yea!  But hopefully I will also complete some BEFORE I geezer up, like, before I'm 40 for sure.  I think it would be fun to dress up really strange for marathons, like impersonating celebrities and stuff.  Except I don't really like celebrities, as a rule, so maybe I'll have to stick to the age old question of ninja, or pirate.  I say ninja. *Hyah!*

Personal:

I am happily married to James W (Cool Runnings). We have 3 boys and 1 opinionated little girl.  I love reading and I'm also a news junkie.  I am a stinker.

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2.85 early with Christine at 9:47 pace. The side of Christine's knee was hurting a little bit. So we decided to run a little slower and take it easy. However, neither Christine or I have a very good sense of what speed we are going and ended up running faster than usual. Weird. Usually I try to run faster, and end up slower. The speed that we go is usually dependent on what we are talking about at the time. If we are excited about it, we go faster. At the end I taught her how to scrape her quads. Hope she'll be okay tomorrow.

1.65 More with James and one kid running & the other two in the jogging stroller. I think Sam ran 1 mile in about 10:05 or something like that, and Joey ran .65 miles at 11:10 pace or something like that.

This is Christine. She's an athletic chica! In addition to running, she lifts weights, jumps ropes and/or does some other form of cross training every day. You'd never guess that she was old enough to have a daughter starting college this fall, would ya?

Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
Comments
From Christi on Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 14:47:18

Way to go on pace today. Christine is a cute chica!

From Mom on Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 19:39:11

What is this about scraping your quads. You referred to it before and I thought you were kidding. What is it for?

From Lybi on Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 11:49:32

Christi--she's totally cute. She has a daughter graduating from high school this year and they look like sisters. She's amazing.

Mom--scraping is a kind of massage that uses a metal or plastic tool to "scrape" your muscles. The goal is to locate and destroy the scar tissue that builds up from micro-tears in your muscles. It is kind of painful, but it seems to be very effective. There are lots of people I know on the blog who have had relief from long-lasting injuries through this technique. Josse is the one who knows all about it. She scraped me after I ran the Provo City half marathon. James is doing so much better since we've started scraping.

From Christi on Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 13:38:24

So what's Christine's secret- staying active?

From Lybi on Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 15:24:41

People ask her that all the time. Exercising is a huge part of it, plus good genes. But I think, since getting to know her better, that another secret is that she often skips or skimps on dinner. She eats good food, and enough of it during the day, but she just gets busy around dinner time. She is always telling me that she forgot to eat dinner. And I'm like ??? Que?

From Christi on Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 15:32:50

I like Denise Austin even though my hubby can't stand to watch her & thinks she's WAY cheesy- but she says "Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a queen and dinner like a pauper (sp?)" I think there is great wisdom in this! Sounds like Christine may go by this philosophy whether she means to or not!

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