Auntie Em Goes Running

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Member Since:

Jun 03, 2009

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

PRs:

MacDash Duathlon, Sept. 10, 2011. 1:29:48. Second woman overall, third racer overall, and first in AG.

Mt. Ranier Duathlon, May 1, 2011. 3:05:00, 1st in age group. 5.1 mile run, 28 mile bike ride, 3.78 mile run.

5K: Fun With the Fuzz, April 23, 2011. 21:59, 1st in age group.

Marathon: Paris, April 10, 2011. 4:05:24.

1/2 marathon: Geoduck Gallop, February 2011. 1:42:23, 1st in age group.

Waterfront 15K (September 2010), 1:14:43. 3rd in AG.

Lake Padden Duathlon (July 2010), 1:36:something. 1st in AG .

10K: Smelt Run, La Conner (2010) 47:14. 2nd in AG.

I have fun every time I run, and have recently overcome the "I can't go fast anymore" hurdle. I'm having fun going faster and working towards becoming even faster.

I have raised two running children, one competitive and one not.

I have learned to run in ice and snow and I don't complain.

Short-Term Running Goals:

Work towards a faster marathon by Spring 2012.

Get my 5K down to 21:30.

Place in my division at duathlon and triathlon.

Train for biathlon.

Long-Term Running Goals:

Joining Forrest Gump

Personal:

I'm a 52 year old mom of two ex homeschooled teenagers. They both think I'm nuts.

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Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	0.00
Bike Shoes Lifetime Miles:						2225.45
Pearl Izumi Trail Shoe Lifetime Miles:						139.33
Marathon Shoe Lifetime Miles:						244.33
Blue Brooks Launch Lifetime Miles:						223.68
Mean Green Shoe Lifetime Miles:						318.72
Blue Kinvaras Lifetime Miles:						207.12
Brooks Defyance Lifetime Miles:						361.34
New Kinvara Lifetime Miles:						275.90
Hattoris Lifetime Miles:						41.29
Addidas Lifetime Miles:						168.97
Nike Vortex Shoe Lifetime Miles:						64.50
Orange Newton Lifetime Miles:						36.20

Tue, Jan 26, 2010

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Crosstraining miles	Total Miles
4.09	0.00	0.00	0.39	5.00	9.48

33 degrees at 7:49 am. Forgot my gloves and hat. Forgot to wear longer pants too. Had coffee with husband and daughter at a bakery and then ran the interurban. It was supposed to be 40 minutes easy, then 6X50-100m strides, FAST. The 40 easy minutes sounded pretty boring, so I took off into the "100 acre woods", a tangled mass of semi-trails and knee deep mud. Got lost, found the main interurban again at exactly 37 minutes, after being chased by a large and potentially dangerous black dog with large teeth. I didn't feel like measuring and marking a section of trail, so I just did the strides by feel for distance. Strangely enough, 4 of them came out at exactly .07 (100m would be .06). The last two were .05 and .06. I guess I'm pretty good at guessing distance. I just started and stopped when I felt like it and jogged about 15 seconds in between, just long enough to stop and restart the watch.

AP on the 40 minute run was 9:51, slowed by debris and mud. Mile pace times on the strides were: 6:11, 5:38, 5:34, 5:34, 5:58, and 5:16. They felt like hard effort, but not quite all out.

Sunny day here; I think I'll head outside and clean up my yard and collect some vitamin D! PM update: Yard work done in time to get an hour of biking in!

New Blue Saucony Miles: 4.48

Night Sleep Time: 7.00	Nap Time: 0.00	Total Sleep Time: 7.00

Comments

From Metcalf Running on Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 14:17:06 from 207.225.192.66

Nice run!! Great pace on your strides! I never really understood what "strides" are supposed to be.

Good luck collecting the vitamin D! We are stuck under cloud cover again :(

From Smooth on Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 14:25:53 from 174.23.232.65

NICE run and strides!

THANKS for the stride distance conversion. My schedule calls for 100m strides alot and I often wonder how far to do those on the road or trail. It's so cool that you are good at guessing by feel. Do you hit the lap button for each interval or stop button during the recovery jog? Just wonder how you get your mile pace times for the strides. Thanks! VERY AWESOME run!

From TBarlow on Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 15:36:18 from 216.194.124.36

Great run! I wish is was warmer and sunny here. We just got a few inches of of powder!

From auntieem on Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 16:35:12 from 24.17.177.218

Smooth: I time each stride as a separate run entry. When I start, I hit the timer start, when I stop that stride, I hit the stop and enter that stride. This morning I wasn't concerned about how fast they were, so I didn't even look at the data before launching into the next stride. So, when I got home and downloaded from Garmin, I had 6 separate mini "runs", each with its own distance, time, and mile pace. There may be an easier way to do it, but I don't know it. When I have to do an interval (like a 200m), where I want it to be exact, I set my auto lap feature to .13 miles and record each 200m run as a separate entry.

Lori: I don't understand "strides" either. I suppose I was doing them today because its a cut back week and they are tiny bursts of speed, so the muscles don't forget during this relatively easy time. Just my guess.

From Carolyn in Colorado on Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 00:10:03 from 24.8.167.243

You must have burned a ton of calories today.

From april27 on Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 18:49:33 from 99.188.251.180

You are soo active!

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