Recovering from micro-fracture surgery :(

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Location:

Sandy,UT,USA

Member Since:

Apr 09, 2011

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Recover From Injury

Running Accomplishments:

Marathon #3 - PR - Salt Lake Marathon 2011- BMQ 3:41:03

PR - Bryce Canyon Half - July 2011 1:38:29

BOSTON

 

At the finish

 

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

Recovering from micro-fracture surgery on my right knee.  I tore the cartilage off of my knee while doing a speed-training run one month before Boston.  Doc gave me a cortisone shot so that I was able to finish Boston.  After the surgery, I was told to never run again. :(

Long-Term Running Goals:

QUALIFIED FOR BOSTON! April 16, 2011 

Ran Boston on April 14, 2012! 

Personal:

 

Married, 40 year old, mother of four. 

 

"In truth, runners don't race other runners.  They race against themselves: to conquer their wills, to transcend their weaknesses, to beat back their nightmares.  And while a runner can't actually beat himself, he can beat his time. Even years into running, he can get better." Running for His Life by Michael Hall

 

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I hurt my foot.....the same foot.....at kickboxing last Wednesday.  I guess I really shouldn't be kicking a large bag with the top of my foot when I have a cyst and just healed from a stress fracture.   I haven't been on the blog because I was so mad about it!!!  It hurt to walk again and was aching most of the day, every day.  I didn't run on Thurs or Friday.  It was feeling a bit better on Saturday and I thought I  would head out for a run on Saturday morning, but my husband got paged into the hospital because someone had just died that was a donor and he needed to go and make sure all of the organs were healthy enough to be used for transplants.  Sad day that someone lost his life before Christmas, but whomever it was gave some wonderful gifts for those waiting for a new life.  

I quickly threw on my running clothes and drove my daughter downtown for dance at the Capital Theatre.  It was soooooo cold.  The car said it was 22 and I sat in the car with my seat heater on procrastinating until it warmed up...but it never did!  I guy runner passed my car and I thought I better get my lazy butt out and into the cold.  

 I ran around the Salt Lake Temple and old Tabernacle, Joseph Smith Memorial Bldg., it was beautiful.  The Mormon Tabernacle Choir music was playing on the grounds.  Brides were out in their white gowns and everyone was there taking pictures.  It was a fun time to go and run around the grounds.  It made me think of my wedding day, and it also made me think about my family history.  My great, great, great grandfather Wilford Woodruff was the 4th president of the church.  I thought of how the media has recently said how the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints aren't Christians.  I also heard some people on the news saying that it is too bad that all of the Mormons weren't all killed by the mobs in Illinois.  Mormons have endured a lot.   I think it is great that two "Mormons" are running for president.  I wish now that I would have graduated in political science in college.  I just love politics and history and can't seem to get enough of them.  

For being a "non-Christian" three of the probably 30 couples that have been through our house that is for sale have told the real estate agent that we have too many pictures of Christ in our house and that we should take them down.  

 

We didn't have any family pictures that were good enough to send out as a Christmas card.  My husbands brother took 3 pics at my 7 yr olds dance performance.   My 13 yr old wasn't smiling in ANY of them! This was the best of the bunch and it just had to do.  He was ready to leave and didn't want to be there in the first place.  What do you do with an ornery teenager? 

 

Merry Christmas!!!  In case you can't see it.....it says MISTLETOE! :) 

I chased everyone around at my family party with my home-made kiss snatcher!  :D

I ran 5 in 39:29 on the dreadmill this morning.   

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5.5 outside around Little Cottonwood in the beautifully clean air!  It was so nice to be able to see the valley and not feel like I was giving myself lung cancer with every breath! 

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Gorgeous day! Started out early in the teens, I finished in the 20s.  It was cooooold!  Ran 13.1 in 1:50 exactly.  I really wanted to get under 1:50, but couldn't do it today.  I really just wanted to beat my last half marathon run of 1:59 with my nephew since he cancelled on me again this morning.  I texted him as soon as I got home just to bug him! ha!  

 I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas!!! 

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