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Location:

Wichita,KS,

Member Since:

Sep 14, 2008

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

marathon pr:  2:59:49.  Saint George 2011

Praire Spirit 50 mile winner 7:36:30 2013

I accidentally ran 100 miles in November 2013.  it was hard.  I threw up a lot.  decided to do a better job next time

I did it again on purpose October 2014--Heartland 100 winner and CR 17:38:37

Heartland 50 winner May 2014

Psycho Wyco 50k winner February 2012

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

Run enough to hold off the middle-age spread

 

 

 

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

 

Sub 3 hour marathon--SOMEDAY!  Done!

 

New long term goal:  ....run enough to feel kinda like I did when I was fit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Personal:

I was a single mom.  Two times over.  We all survived, despite the fact that I make atrocious decisions.  Then, I met a man I didn't deserve.  And he loves me so much.  And I love him. We lived in sin and bought a house for two years then hired a judge and officially got married(to our great delight and also the delight of our mothers), then a month later he was diagnosed with cancer.  Well we survived all that and he's 100% fine now.  But, we're really out of shape and really busy with kids and jobs and running just isn't my priority and there's so many other layers to all of it, but I'm running anyway.  This is my failure blog now.  Just to log that one run a week if I snag it.  
Somehow that matters and I want that run recorded.

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Lunarfly Lifetime Miles: 468.47
Tue, Nov 23, 2010
Total Distance
9.00

7:31 AP.  Treadmill tempo success!  Put my daughter down for a nap and went for it.  Today's music selection was Korn:"Issues", which surprisingly was good for concentrating and relaxing into the tempo.

Warm up 3 miles ranging from 8:00 to 8:34 pace

4 mile tempo 6:40, 6:40, 6:40, 6:35 --surprised at how in control I felt after 3 miles I picked it up a notch for the 4th mile.  It promptly started to hurt, but was survivable.

2 mile cooldown from 7:30 to 8:34 pace

I am thinking right at 6:40 pace is my lactate threshold right now

Weight: 0.00
Comments
From JulieC on Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 17:06:11 from 70.56.109.139

YOUR LR IS AWESOME!! How do you tell what it is? I am guessing if it means how long you can go without getting too sore I am about a 7:10. Good for you!! Hope you don't get our storm too!! Enjoy your weather while it lasts.

From Bonnie on Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 17:06:48 from 128.196.228.134

Yea for tempo runs!

Happy Thanksgiving April!!

From seeaprilrun on Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 17:11:53 from 72.205.224.181

Thanks Bonnie! Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family too!

Julie--After reading all the junk out there about what lactate threshold is and its significance I have come to the conclusion that it is the pace you can run without your legs filling up with acid and getting stiff and making you slow down--some places say it is what you could run all out for one hour. I figured this was close because immediately after going to 6:35, such a small change, I suddenly was huffing with my breathing and my legs were burning!

From Bonnie on Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 17:18:22 from 128.196.228.134

It depends on whose book/coaching you are reading what lactate threshold is ... however, the term was made famous by Jack Daniels, and according to him it is not "all out" for an hour but "comfortably hard" (so you should still be able to talk). Rule of thumb is that this pace is 1/2 marathon pace to 1/2 marathon pace + 15 secs. That is why they are generally on the long side - up to 8-10 miles (depending on your pace these are up to 1 hour runs). This differs a little from "tempo runs" (per Daniels) that are slightly faster (by about 15 secs) and shorter (generally less than 6 miles for the faster runners).

From seeaprilrun on Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 17:31:16 from 72.205.224.181

Hmm, then perhaps this was my aerobic/anaerobic threshold rather than LT--cuz it's sure not half-marathon pace! It's some kind of threshold for me, I went from "I could do this all day" to "is it over yet?" with just a little change in speed!

From Bonnie on Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 17:40:13 from 128.196.228.134

ha ha ha ha ...I think there are "workouts that boost LT" and then there are "threshold runs". My guess is you were "working LT" ;-). Good job either way! I think that the "is it over yet" was also a function of time of doing it, so the fact that the last was your fastest is always a good thing!

From SlowJoe on Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 01:14:03 from 109.70.68.174

Wow, that was on the treadmill? That is awesome, I don't know how you do it. I'm pretty sure 6:40 pace on the TM converts to like 4:40 pace outside. I saw it on a Jack Daniels bottle.

From ChrisM on Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 03:34:54 from 130.88.123.4

Sounds like you got your treadmill fixed which is good!

LOL! @ SlowJoe

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