Running in New Orleans

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Location:

metairie,LA,United States

Member Since:

Feb 02, 2009

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

Ran my 1st marathon with by husband riding his bike next to me because I couldn't get on the plane to run the SLC (I'm totally counting it!) 4: 15

Mississippi marathon 4:25 (dumped rain w'lightning the last 13 miles...not such a good race)

Cleveland 1/2 marathon (1st race 2 years ago 5 months after my third child)

New Orleans 1/2 marathon 1:48

New Orleans Turkey day 7k

Race for da ribs trail run 10k, Alexandria, LA :55 (Overall female winner...Yeaa!)

2009 Crescent City Classic 10k: 47 mins

Short-Term Running Goals:

Run more races, speed up time and qualify for Boston

Long-Term Running Goals:

Be able to run long distances at all times!

Personal:

I am married and have 3 little girls ages 2/12, 5 & 7. Originally from SLC, currently live in Metairie, LA (a subburb next to New Orleans) and before that we spent 4 years in Cleveland, OH while my husband completed Dental School. He is now completing a residency program and will be done in less than a year and a half. After that who knows where we will end up!

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Sat, Feb 14, 2009

Total Distance

6.00

My husband and I made it to our 10k trail run. We are both recovering from sickness but decided to do it anyway. We had a blast! I forgot how fun trail running is...haven't done it since Utah over 6 months ago. It rained all day and night before the race so it was nice and juicy for us. I didn't think hills were possible in Louisiana but oh man was I WRONG! It was hills the whole time! The first turn in the trail wasn't marked super well so my husband and a couple others in front of me missed it and went running off in the forest. So of course I had to go running and yelling after them. After a couple minutes I got their attention and we all headed back to the trail. It took some effort to get back to a comfortable pace after that. I'm not sure what my time was...I think it was around 55 minutes (I'll find out Monday). I was super excited as I passed thru the finish line and they told me I was the 1st female! So I won overall female and who doesn't LOVE winning?

Comments

From Kelli on Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 23:18:16

EVERYONE loves winning!!! Awesome job.

Glad you two are feeling better and that you were able to run.

From Kelli on Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 21:20:01

I was thinking last night, was is a trail race? Are you like in the mountains and dirt an stuff? Or are you just on a trail??? I do not think I could run on mountainy type trails, I would roll my ankle or worse. That has got to be hard!

From kristel on Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 23:07:05

Yes it was in the mountains. Single file, jumping over logs and mud puddles, ducking under branches...Justin and the other guy we were running with both fell pretty hard! It was hard but SO much fun. It was one of the funnest runs I have ever done and ever since then I have been looking for more longer trail runs.

From Kelli on Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 14:52:09

I think I would have killed myself! Trails like that scare me, I think I will stick to walking on them! I am accident prone big time. WAIT, so is Justin!!! He better be careful he will end up all broken.

Very cool and impressive, trail running is super tough.

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