Judy Dorpinghaus

Get-to-Know Me:

• Date of Birth: 
      December 9th, 1969
• Training Distance: 
      Mainly ½ marathons and under, but will run a marathon now and then.  Just depends on my family schedule and what training I can work in. 
• Favorite Locations to train: 
      Shaw Nature Reserve
• Favorite Race:
      The Pere Marquette Endurance Trail Run
• How you got started running: 
      I’ve always loved doing anything athletic.  Our high school did not have a cross country or a track team, so I participated in basketball, volleyball and softball. I ran off and on through high school and college.   My first race was in August of 2000 at the age of 30.   It was a local 5 mile Fair Run and it was the first time I had run 5 miles straight!  I was hooked and started running year round.  Our son was 4 and our twins were 2 at the time so it was a great way for me to get out and have some time to myself. I had another (our final!) baby in September, 2005.  It’s a great feeling to be back out running!
• Favorite Foods: 
      lasagna, cheez it’s, peanut butter, ice cream
• Favorite Movie: 
      Ice Age, A Lot like Love
• Best Experience through Running: 
      All the awesome people that I’ve met!  Completing my first marathon was exciting.  I don’t take anything for granted and am just thankful every day that I am able to get out and run.  Running provides a good balance in my life.
• Craziest / funniest moment through running: 
      While on a run at the Nature Reserve, I saw a goose sitting in the middle of the trail.  This was nothing unusual.  I continued to run toward it assuming it would move as I got closer.  Instead, as I approached, I was attacked by the goose!  He jumped on my back and knocked me to the ground.  He was really pecking / biting me as I was frantically trying to get away. The next time I went there to run there was a big sign that said “Beware of the goose.  He has lost his mate and may be violent.”
• Most embarrassing moment during running: 
      I started a run at the Nature Reserve the same direction as I had hundreds of times before.   On this particular gravel loop there is a gate that you pull open on one side, and one that you push open on the other side.  I usually don’t slow down very much through the gate that I push on since it opens quickly and easily.  This day, however, I ran and pushed on the big metal “pull” gate and plowed right into it.  I gave myself a bloody nose and a glowing bruise on my face. When I got home and my husband saw my face and the blood all over my shirt, he thought I had been attacked by a deer or some other wild animal. 
• Most Exotic running location: 
      Kauai was a beautiful place to run!  The Las Vegas ½ Marathon was a neat run down the strip!
• Favorite Cereal:
      Honey Bunches of Oats , Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Oh’s
• Favorite Ice Cream Flavor: 
      may be boring, but just plain vanilla
• Prefer trails or roads: 
      will take trails over roads any day

 

2008 Races:
Snowball Series 20K - 1:21:00
Mud n Gutz XC 8K - 32:12
St. John 4M - 25:07
St. Patrick's Day 5M - 30:05
GO! StL 13.1M - 1:25:12
Run for Sight 5K - 18:19

Personal Bests:
5K - 17:24 (Connection Run '07)
5 Mile - 29:42 (St. Pat's '07)
10K - 37:42 (Union Founder's Day '07)
15K - 58:07 (SLTC Frostbite '07)
10 Mile - 1:02:11 (Snowball '07)
Half Marathon - 1:23:10 (SLTC '07)
Marathon - 3:08:54 (St. Louis '04)