COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL MAY 2, 2018 M ARATHON continued from B1 unbelievably wet.” *** Growing up, Udosenata didn’t play organized sports. “In high school, I played the viola and was a thespian and I was very anti-anything athletic at all,” she said. “And then in college I lifted and did the stair master to just look a certain way. And then I loved backpacking. So, I guess I was active-ish in college. But I was not a sporty person.” With no real desire to start now, Udosenata was convinced by her boyfriend of the time (and now husband Iton Udose- nata) to compete in a duatholon in Corvallis. The Heart of the Valley Duathlon includes and 11-mile bike ride that is book- ended by a pair of 5K runs. The pair competed in the race and Miriam Udosenata caught the running bug. “I really liked the running part. And so we did the Butte to Butte a couple months later. I liked that, it’s a 10K. Then I signed up for the EWEB Run to Stay Warm a couple months after that. Did the half marathon and then I did the Eugene full marathon fi ve months later,” she said. “I got really hooked.” *** While the rain wasn’t going anywhere, Udosenata was. By mile four, the pack of peo- Your Family Deserves The BEST Technology... Value... TV!... Upgrade to the Hopper® 3 Smart HD DVR • Watch and record 16 shows at once • Get built-in Netflix and YouTube • Watch TV on your mobile devices Hopper upgrade fee $5/mo. Add High Speed Internet 14 . 95 $ /mo. Subject to availability. Restrictions apply. Internet not provided by DISH and will be billed separately. 190 Channels CALL TODAY Save 20% * ! 1-866-373-9175 With 2 Year Price Guarantee with AT120 starting at $59.99 compared to everyday price. Prices include Hopper Duo for qualifying customers. Hopper, Hopper w/ Sling or Hopper 3 $5/mo. more. Upfront fees may apply based on cred ualification. Fees apply for additional TVs: Hopper $15/mo., Joey $5/mo., Super Joey $10/mo. Requires credit qualification and commitment. 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All Rights Reserved. ©2017 Charter Communications. $XWKRUL]HGDQGSDLGIRUE\9RWH/RX2JGHQ3$& 3DLG$GYHUWLVHPHQW <($56 2) (;3(5,(1&(' 121 3$57,6$1 /($'(56+,3 /RX 927( &200,66,21(5 %XUHDXRI/DERU ,QGXVWULHV ple had spread thin enough and she was hitting her goal pace. And mile four meant it was time to fuel up. “My plan for fueling was to take a gel every four miles. And I stuck to it, and I just kept, okay, four miles, time to take another one,” said Udosenata. “And then I just focus on get- ting to that next four mile point where I can take another one just to, you know, mental games you play to get through when it’s tough like that.” As the miles started to add up, screaming spectators cheered her on as she passed fellow rac- ers. “I mean, there were so many fans out – just like normal – so you feel like a rock star the en- tire way.” *** Suddenly running was every- thing for Udosenata. She ran the Portland Marathon where her time of 3:40:32 got her under the qualifying time of 3:45:00 (and has since moved to 3:40:00) and she punched her ticket to Bos- ton in her second marathon ever. “At that point I started get- ting a lot of running friends and getting really plugged into the Eugene running community and kind of found a whole new tribe of people. And it’s just adult peer pressure,” she said. “You start running new marathons and then the big goal is to quali- fy for New York City Marathon which is actually harder to qual- ify for than Boston.” She continued to run races, post impressive times and qual- ify and compete at bigger stag- es including the New York City Marathon in 2015. In 2016 she put up personal records at each distance but it was starting to be too much. “By the end of 2016 I was to- tally burned out. And was just like, I’m done,” she said. Done – for the time being – with racing. Not running. “I still ran like 2,700 miles in 2017.” Having qualifi ed for Boston 2018 with a 3:23:20 time at the California International Mar- athon, Udosenata decided this was the year she went back for the Boston Marathon. *** As Udosenata rolled through the miles, the notorious hills of the marathon waited in the dis- tance. Starting at mile 17, racers encounter the Newton Hills that crescendo at mile 20 with a half- mile ascent to what is known as Heartbreak Hill. “At like mile 17, 18 I hear my name and my husband had… found me. And I saw him and I knew we were coming up to Heartbreak Hill – the Newton Hills up to Heartbreak. And that just kind of gave me a burst, like okay, we’re almost there, we’re almost there,” said Udosenata. Having done extra hill train- ing for this particular moment, she began her climb and was unfazed by the challenge. “People don’t want to hear this for the most part but really I don’t think the Newton Hills are that big of a deal. I thought it the fi rst time, and I thought it this time. They’re really not,” she said. “Butte to Butte’s hill is much worse. I think the thing that is hard about Heartbreak is you’re 20 miles in and that’s where most people kind of start to hit the wall if they don’t fuel right.” Passing people the whole way up, she was fi lled with a feeling of pure ecstasy. “Just kind of overcoming waves of just being so happy and feeling so lucky that I’m able to participate in something like this. Despite the weather, despite whatever, you know. We get to mile 23 and there’s one of those complete atmospheric riv- er dumps and I just woo-hooed at the top of my lungs when it started,” she said. “What else can you even do? Bring it on, weather, whatever. And at that point I was able to look at my watch and be like, I’m getting a (personal record). No matter what I do right now.” *** To get ready for the Boston Marathon, Udosenata prepared in a number of ways. She fi ne- tuned her lifting, found the right balance of mileage and mapped out possible race-day scenarios. She also threw some “Gatorade parties.” A full-time PE teacher at Bohemia Elementary School, Udosenata involved her stu- dents in her training for Boston. Starting in January, one day a week the students would run laps around the track as part of a class competition – that earned them Gatorade – and to see if they could run across the country from Cottage Grove to Boston. “On the map there behind A map at Bohemia Elementary School that tracked mileage from Cottage Grove to Boston. you, we kind of kept track of that little paw print moving across the country as the weeks went by,” she said. With the miles the classes logged, and Udosenata’s train- ing miles, they made their physi- cal goal. But also, accomplished other goals along the way. “Just to watch some of my hardest classes behaviorally get so into it. Like push them- selves… I would have marks on their arms on Boston laps days – it was the easiest way to mark them – and they would be like, ‘I got 15 last time, I’m getting 16 this time,’” said Udosenata. “Running is a great sport be- cause you don’t need to be in some sort of [socioeconomic status] when you’re young- er where your parent puts you in some club soccer when you were three. It’s like you need some shoes and your own grit and go for it.” With her students into run- ning, understanding what Bos- ton is and having just met their goal for miles run, Udosenata left for Boston to compete in the race. *** Through rain and hills and pain, Udosenata was met with euphoria on the way to the fi n- ish line. “That’s kind of when the magic of Boston that I felt last time kind of hits. And it’s just this, for me, it’s this emotional, I kind of want to cry, I kind of feel like choking and I just feel so thankful to be there,” she said. “You’re chasing that feeling. That doesn’t happen every sin- gle time. But that’s what you hope for and just luckily for me, and not luckily I put in a lot of hard work, but it happened again.” 9 27( / 28 2 *'(1 &20 Second Place (tie): 90 Dave Tooker, Tim Martin, Gary Culp, Manny Anderson Scores Middlefi eld Men’s Club Monday 4/23/2018 Game: 2M Points Larry Eyman, Jake Cox Second Place (tie): 90 Jerry Penning- ton, Jim Lehl, Phil Hamilton, Jim Cunningham First Place: 98 Don Perkins, Frank Gates, 3B Fourth Place: 89 Gary Rider, Bob McCarty, Rick Lebrun, Deross Kinkade Fifth Place (tie): 88 Imagine The Difference You Can Make DONATE YOUR CAR Udosenata fi nished in a per- sonal best time of 3:13:54. As she crossed the fi nish line, a new challenge set in. “People were really hypother- mic and we were kind of ush- ered into this auditorium they have for runners to warm up. And people were just uncon- trollable. And I was, too, at fi rst. Almost delirious with cold that I’ve never really felt before,” she said. Once she was able to get out of her soaking wet race clothes, she began to help her fellow runners in need around her. She explained how to get warm and helped remove their shoes as they were grateful and in shock. “People were just like, ‘did we really – did that really just happen out there?’” *** Less than two weeks after Boston, Udosenata was at it again with the marathon last Sunday; this time running as a pacer for the Eugene marathon. She led the 3:25:00 group for the fi rst 17 miles before she handed off the group to a “run- ning buddy” as she dealt with an aching right hamstring for the fi nal nine miles and fi nished in a time of 3:45:25. And after a pair of marathons, now it is time to rest until she decides what her goals are and what she wants to achieve in the coming year. There are mar- athons across the country and in Europe she has her eye on. And maybe even the marathon in Greece. 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