| Location: Austin,TX, Member Since: Jan 10, 2012 Gender: Female Goal Type: Boston Qualifier Running Accomplishments: 3:57 at Austin Marathon (Feb. 2010) 3:34 at California International Marathon (Dec. 4, 2011) 1:47 Half at Champaign Half Marathon (April 2011) 1:38 Half at 3M Half Marathon (Jan 29, 2012) Completed 14 Marathons including Chicago, NYC, San Francisco, Big Sur, Carlsbad, Austin, Champaign and CIM Short-Term Running Goals: Sub-3:30 at Eugene Marathon (April 29, 2012) Berlin Marathon - Training run for CIM (September 30, 2012) 3:20 at California International Marathon (December 2, 2012) Long-Term Running Goals: Sub - 3:15 Marathon 1:30 Half Marathon Personal: I am a 27 year old girl, from Illinois (via NYC), currently living in Austin, TX. I've been running for about 6 years, have completed 14 marathons and recently qualified for the Boston Marathon with a time of 3:34! This was a 23 minute PR for me! After years of running very high mileage at pretty slow paces, I decided to get serious and joined Gilbert's Gazelles training group. The BQ came 8 months later. Hoping this blog will help add some further insight and organization to my running. :) Favorite Blogs: |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 34.80 | 8.00 | 42.80 |
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| Brooks Adrenaline Miles: 35.80 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| Recovery run on the trail with the fast guys. Average pace 8:46. Felt pretty good considering I ran a hilly 18 miler yesterday and only got a few hours of sleep. Need to run faster on the long runs... |
| Brooks Adrenaline Miles: 8.00 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
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Late morning 8 mile recovery run on the trail. 8:50 avg. pace. Weather was incredible! One of those days when you feel really lucky to live in Austin! My Eugene schedule has an 8 mile MGP run tomorrow or I could do mile repeats with the non-Boston group. Can't decide... Realized I forgot to include my Berlin Marathon training run in my Marathons for 2012 :) I guess it's going to be one of those 3 marathon years again!
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| Brooks Adrenaline Miles: 8.00 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 5.40 | 4.00 | 9.40 |
| 1 mile repeats at Zilker this morning. I actually kinda love workouts like this... Mentally being off the track is so great and the hills thrown in makes it a lot of fun :) Plus the weather was perfect! Gilbert had us do 4 since a lot of people are running 3M Half this weekend. 1.6 mile warm up 1. 7:10 (go straight from parking lot) 2. 6:59 (turn left down hill) 3. 6:57 (go straight from parking lot) 4. 6:59 (turn left down hill) 1.6 mile cool down Drove home and felt like doing a bit more running around the hood, so added on a nice hilly 2.2 miles. Total 9.4 for the day. Overall, felt pretty good for running 34 miles in the last 3 days... |
| Brooks Adrenaline Miles: 9.40 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
| Downtown Austin got quiet the rain storm last night! Got to log those sleep hours at like 3. The animals were not happy. The car alarm went off twice from the thunder! Did 7 super easy recovery miles this morning. Ran from home and did the 5 mile loop. The trail made it out okay from the storm, but definitely has some major puddles and new "rivers." Ouch. Super sore core today from my in front of TV core work yesterday! | | Comments(1) |
| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.40 | 4.00 | 7.40 |
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Group had two options today, 800s or a 1 min on 1 min off fartlek. Was planning on doing a fartlek today but the trail isn't in very good shape (in my opinion) so I chose to go to the track. Rolled my ankle yesterday just doing recovery, so I figured this was overall the less risky option. Went to the track and did 8 x 800 a little bit slower than I normally would since I ran mile repeats on Tuesday. Normally they would be 3:20s. 1. 3:28 2. 3:28 3. 3:28 4. 3:29 5. 3:28 6. 3:30 7. 3:28 8. 3:28 If my current career does not work out, I think I will become a pacer. :)
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| Brooks Adrenaline Miles: 7.40 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Rest day. No running, no yoga! I have the 3M Half Marathon on Sunday. I am not going to race it, but will still be running it about a minute faster than I would normally do a long run. Planning to run it in about 1:40 (7:38 pace). The race is largely downhill so that is probably about a 7:50 anywhere else, or close to my MGP that I hope to run at Eugene. My hamstring feels a bit tight after the speed work this week. I think this calls for a visit to my favorite ART guy, Dr. Z, before the weekend! :) AND - tomorrow I get to carbo load! | | Comments(3) |
| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 |
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Went to the annex this morning at 8 to do my little pre-half marathon run. Ran into Mike and ended up running with him, which was great because it assured I would only do 3 miles. In my head I was all set for 7! My knee/hamstring is feeling so much better after the ART yesterday. So happy about that. My doc is going to be at the finish, so I am happy knowing I can get some more ART if I don't feel 100% after the race! :) After my run, I walked up to Gilbert (coach) and said that I am going to run 1:40. He said, no, 1:38. Ugh. I looked it up on the "calculator" and it makes more sense based on my recent repeat times, full marathon goal, etc... I told him I wanted to take it easy. He said "WHY??" We shall see what happens...Gotta go eat some more carbs :) Playlist done. Check. It's go time.
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| Brooks Adrenaline Miles: 3.00 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 34.80 | 8.00 | 42.80 |
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| Brooks Adrenaline Miles: 35.80 |
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