| Location: Washington,DC,USA Member Since: May 01, 2008 Gender: Female Goal Type: Boston Qualifier Running Accomplishments: One marathon: 4:08; Half marathon PR: 1:48:30; Ten-miler PR: 1:23; 8k PR: 39:00; 10k PR: 46:51
Short-Term Running Goals: Lose 10 lbs. to get in shape to run faster and --> Qualify for Boston!
Race calendar:
May 18: Capitol Hill Classic 10k (50:23)
June 14: Lawyers Have Heart 10k (48:20)
July 12: Caribbean Sounds 10k (50:23)
July 14: Bastille Day 4-miler (30:55)
July 27: Riley's Rumble 1/2 Marathon (1:48:30)
(Stress fracture/broken jaw break)
Nov 9: Veteran's day 10k (46:51!!!)
Nov 27: Alexandria Turkey Trot 5-miler
Dec 6: Gar Williams 1/2 marathon
Dec 14: Jingle All the way 10k
February 14, 2009: Myrtle Beach marathon? (goal: 3:40!!!) Long-Term Running Goals: Finish a 1/2 Ironman before I'm 40 years old
Finish 10 marathons in 4:00 hrs or less by the time I'm 40 years old.
Run the JFK 50-miler Personal:
Just another single 30-year old Argentine girl living the American dream in Washington DC and trying to run faster. Graduated from Southern Utah University in 2003, then moved to DC. I have a full-time job as research economist for an association in the transportation industry and I'm attempting to get my Master's degree in Economics from Johns Hopkins, part-time, while keeping my sanity!
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A beautiful day here in DC - after very little sleep last night (darn those olympics!) biked to the swimming pool, did some pool jogging before meeting my new swimming coach! Our first class went pretty well, I think, and I committed to 6 more lessons throughout this next few weeks. It's not going to be easy, but I think I can manage to learn freestyle... or so I hope...
Smelling like chlorine and with green hair, I met fastboy Aaron after his 15-mile long run for some crepes at Eastern Market, a walk around the neighborhood and some good conversation. We are kindred spirits in a sense: mountain people trying to escape the dreaded city life of DC, though he has a much clearer escape plan than I do.
Did some yoga at home when I got back, then watched some Olympics while making some cherry garcia ice cream with fresh Eastern Market cherries... YUMMM!
The plan for this week: keep up with the cross-training. I don't think I'll be joining a gym after all, since I'll be doing my cardio workout swimming (and spending lots of $$ on swimming lessons...). The plan is also to get more sleep - starting... nnnnnnnnow! |
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A bit of a lazy day... which is funny, cause I still exercised a lot more than the average American (or Argentinean alike). Biked to work in the morning, then after work biked to Alexandria to try and find a swimming suit (ended up buying one that is too small... ugh...) then biked back home. It was a nice ride, the way there is a straight shot on the Mt. Vernon trail, a bike/jogging trail right next to the Potomac. The way back was the same way, then cross over on the 395 bridge, cut through the Waterfront and all the way down M street by the brand new National's baseball stadium. 18 miles of biking for the day.
I was going to do some core work but decided to watch the Olympics and eat too much food instead. Not very wise. |
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10 min aqua jogging this morning, followed by a kick-butte (yes, I said butte) swimming lesson. Learning to swim freestyle for a 30-year old grown up is going to be a lot harder than I thought, but this was only my 2nd lesson so I shouldn't get ahead of myself. I just can't seem to get the breathing right, I feel like I'm out of breath every few seconds, and feel soooo clumsy in the water! It'll get better, I know it... The plan is to go back this afternoon after work for another hour. Biked to work.
So now my hair is not so smelly but my nails look terribly yellow! If it's not one thing it's the other. My swimming coach was telling me that he is training for a triathlon, but that his favorite are duathlons, with only swimming and biking - he wishes there were more of that available cause his weakest skill is running. I was like... What???? So maybe when I can start running I can help him out! I mean, after swimming, running is a piece of cake!
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Highlight of the day: lunch with the uber-fabulous fellow blogger Jillzo! You think she's awesome just by reading her fastrunningblog, but you have NO idea of how amazing of a person she really is. THANK YOU JILL!!!
One hour at the pool after work - some jogging, some practice swim. Biked home from work. |
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Biked to work, biked to Courthouse after work to work out with my friend Duygu at her apartment's gym. Used the stationary bike and the elliptical, felt pretty good. Duygu is trying to lose some weight but is not very good at keeping focused on the gym... so I want to think that I helped her out a little. She was on the bike texting her friends so she was going really slow, so every few minutes I'd tell her to focus for one minute and work out at maximum effort... She said it helped her... and I got to use a gym for free!
Now I can't sleep..... again.... |
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| Biked to work, biked to the store, bought new swimming suit so I don't have to keep going to the pool with a green swimming suit (which was black but not color-safe so the chlorine turned it green). Biked to the pool, swam for 45 minutes, jogged for 30 minutes and biked home. |
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What a perfect morning! If only I had gotten more sleep last night... but oh well...
Biked to the pool, swam for 30 minutes (I think I'm getting better!), jogged for 30 minutes (I'm getting better here too, now I can do a few laps without the aquabelt without feeling like I'm going to die), biked to work, and logged into my computer to find out the women's Argentine field hockey team beat Germany and won the bronze medal! Goooo girls! Now it's the men's basketball semifinal with my two favorite countries, Argentina vs. USA! Yikes...
I completely forgot to buy a swimming cap, and my hair is getting pretty bad... ughhhh... I'm going to a concert tonight and my date is going to be horrified :)
Best of luck to all my beloved Utah bloggers out there who are running a certain half marathon tomorrow! I'll be thinking of you all! |
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Biked to the office, then met a friend for a 20-mile bike ride on the C&O Canal - we went pretty fast considering he hadn't biked in a long time. Came back to Georgetown and had some pizza... and he talked me into having some ice cream... Who can say no to ice cream? Biked home after that for a total of 30 bike miles for the day.
Now I'm home watching the Olympic marathon runners, man those guys are fast! They just showed the Athens marathon race in which the Brazilian front-runner was attacked by a crazy priest and ended up finishing 3rd. Unbelievable! I had no idea that had happened - I guess four years ago I wasn't as into running as now. Poor guy. He seemed to have a good attitude about it - the Brazilian guy... the crazy Irish guy keeps doing crazy things and apparently they can't imprison him.
The Argentine kids got the soccer gold medal!!! That's the second gold for Argentina in this Olympics; the first one was a cycling event and a very impressive win. We also had a judo and a field hockey bronze, and the Basketball team has a chance to another bronze tomorrow.
WAY TO GO TO ALL THE UTAH RUNNERS on the two halfs you ran this weekend! Big thanks to Wall-e for running a spectacular half even when he was having some aches and pains during the week, and everyone please send good vibes to the great Jillzo who is running the hilly Anapolis 10-miler tomorrow! GOOOO JILL! |
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