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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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Happy June everyone!! I'm so glad it's finally warm but I have a sinking feeling that when it gets cold in say October I'm going to be very depressed....Of course I will have a new baby to keep me busy so I'm sure I won't mind the cold too much.  

I'm thinking of starting a food journal on here so you all can see the way the Sasha family eats and if you are interested I can share some of the more complicated recipes I make but haven't posted on the healthy recipe website.

I'm not really what you would call a "chef" but I do have a unique way of making things for the diet we have chosen to eat.  I also have learned how to incorporate a lot of food storage type foods into our diet. I developed a menu plan that varies the type of food storage food we eat and also plans for easy days and hard days of cooking..I'm not interested in cooking all the time. One weird thing we do is we don't really eat leftovers....sometimes but not always. If you are big into leftovers my plan could be altered. 

Alot of what we do is fairly repetitive because both of us are happy eating some of the same things over and over. For instance we eat pretty much the same breakfast everyday...sometimes the fruit we do (or don't) put on top varies. Basically we eat either raw oats with fruit or homemade granola on top (or just agave for sweetner) or oatmeal.  Sometimes I make things like apple crisp, pancakes or waffles but this is usually according to mood or maybe when I can tell the kids are tired of oats.

I'll write more later...gotta go make breakfast speaking of.... 

 

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Felt better today than yesterday. I got a lot done on my picnic blanket I'm making. It's almost entirely out of old jeans and pants. I cut up my very very very very very favorite jacket that I wore almost every day in Russia (during the summer..it was cold there) and almost every day on my runs for years when it was cold. I'm sure I kissed my boyfriend in Moscow in this jacket and did lots of other memorable things. (Sasha was not my boyfriend while I lived in Moscow...he likes to hear about past boyfriends however because it reminds him that he won and somebody else was in the race) 

I cut the jacket up because the strings came out of it somehow and it would be veeeery difficult to fix and is unwearable without them. Anyway..I can't wait to explore good places for picnics this summer. We have a plan to combine the evening runs with park/picnic adventures along the trail.  

 

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I wanted to turn around early today so I'd get back for Sasha to get to the temple on time. I ended up making myself do all of it partly because I saw Luc and Amanda and that cheered me up and inspired me to keep going. 

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Didn't feel like going around the block but once I got started it felt okay and I had a good run. 

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For some reason my legs were really tired today and I just didn't have the mental power to force myself through the pain. The annoying thing is that now about 1 hour after I've stopped they are still hurting. Ah...the joys the pregnancy. 

I really like being pregnant for the most part because I'm happy to think of the baby... 

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I might have gone more like 4.6-4.8 today ...not sure. It was raining hard in my window of time to run today so I opted for the indoor track since Sasha was actually running later today...thank goodness I didn't have to run around the block in the rain...I think I would of had another low mileage day.

My legs hurt for the first half an hour. I sped up for the last half to a nice brisk pace and even started passing people that had been lapping me my first 2 miles...I always wonder at this stage if people realize I'm pregnant or just think I'm fat.

Hope everyone has a great weekend.

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