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Location:

Provo,UT,USA

Member Since:

Aug 02, 1999

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

I ran the Top of Utah Marathon in 4:43 after having my third child the year before. 5 K in 24:19, 10 K in 53 minutes pregnant. Survived personal training from my lovable but slightly overbearing husband Sasha for more than 8 years!!

Short-Term Running Goals:

Break 23:45 in the 5k.

Long-Term Running Goals:

Stay thin and full of energy.

Not be an embarassment to my family full of world class athletes.

Personal:

Madly in love with Sasha. We have been married since 1996 and have been blessed with seven of the most adorable and talented children : Benjamin, Jennifer, Julia, and Joseph, Jacob, William and Stephen.

All of our children have run in at least one race, including Jacob and William who did it inside the womb. I enjoy various non-running activities such as: baking, sewing, playing organ, piano and flute, painting, and playing with our  vivacious children.

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I really embarrassed about all the attention I got the other day when I said we went fast but I didn't know the time. I can barely do two miles under 8 minute mile pace so I know for sure it was nowhere near that...it was just fast  for us...like maybe closer to 9 minute mile pace...I really don't know. Today we did closer to 10 minute mile pace.  

I'm trying to think of what entertaining things happened today besides my run...um..oh...I think today was my stressed out in public day. I was in a huge hurry to get home and turn off the oven...I know...bad but we were only gone 1/2 hour and I am so spoiled by Sasha always being there I kind of forget when he goes to the temple on Wednesday mornings and isn't there...at the computer like he always is. So anyway, we are at the library and I'm in a mad rush to get home and the security guard stops me because the beeper thing goes off. I have five little kids, high blood pressure over the chicken in the oven and 34 items that I think he's going to have to look at one by one. Luckily it only took at second but I didn't try too hard to show my displeasure...I wasn't rude...just kind of begging him to let me go and hoping the guilt trip worked....felt bad afterwards...should I bake the poor guy cookies?  

Then later today I was at Julia's dance recital practice....it lasted two hours so I  took her and a friend for the first hour and another Mom came to take over for the last hour and was going to drive home.

As I was leaving I asked the receptionist of the senior center (that's where the recital will be held) if they could please turn the heat down. She said no. I said could you put a fan in there. (there was a fan sitting behind her and not being used) She got up and left.

A lady comes back and says, "Do you have a problem?" (I will make a note to self to avoid answering this type of question in public in the future...it does not mean that she wanted to help me but was really trying to pick a fight...) I explained the heat problem and asked about a fan...I should have pointed out the one sitting in the office behind us but was too polite.  That's when the trouble started...she wanted to take out her frusturation at all the little kids running in the halls(which of course my kid and friend weren't doing) and I was the target...I got out of there fast after she demanded that I stay there with my daughter and I guess control all the other 60 some odd little ones driving her nuts.  STRESS.......Anyway, I feel better now that I wrote in down and hope that anyone that actually read this far didn't feel stressed out reading it but hopefully just got a good laugh at a weird day.  

Comments
From adam on Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 00:28:54

Was this at the senior center by where I work? I know who to talk to if you want to leave a complaint and I can make sure that it doesn't happen again.

From sarah on Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 10:57:55

No it was the Orem friendship Center and it is not in my nature to make a formal complaint unless I think it is a problem that would happen again. Anyway I don't blame her for being grouchy with me I just wish I had been above reacting at all and been super kind to her...which I wasn't...

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