| 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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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 26.26 | 11.00 | 3.00 | 0.50 | 0.00 | 40.76 |
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| Saucony Miles: 9.20 | New Saucony Guide Miles: 10.75 | Vroom Shoes Miles: 7.14 | NB Orange Shoes Miles: 13.67 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 41.00 | Nap Time: 1.50 | Total Sleep Time: 42.50 | |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 5.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| Easy miles, splits 9:17, 9:08, 8:51, 9:18, 9:08, and 9:03. Nice slow motion easy effort all the way. | |
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| Night Sleep Time: 4.50 | Nap Time: 1.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.50 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 3.70 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.70 |
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Whew! Eight whole hours of sleep last night, and I'm feeling really recovered from the weekend of the 30 hour relay! The event was fun, and we made some money for the team. Its fun to hang around all that teen energy for awhile. By 5am at the track, where they ran during the night, I arrived to make waffles for the gang, and there was a group of kids sleeping on the tennis courts, another group sleeping in the tent, and a third group doing laps around the course that I set up. Parents were sitting in chairs encouraging the runners and playing some strange form of twenty questions with the kids as they ran by. A very peaceful scene. Its a good thing they have another week to rest up before school starts! Anyway, I am a bit grumpy because I will miss my track workout tonight. Parent sports meeting. I'm feeling a little beat up today anyhow, so I might just do some easy miles, and do the track work on my own early tomorrow morning. PM - I never got over that beat up feeling, so I just took an "off" day, and did 3.7 easy miles, just focusing on picking up my feet and leaning from the ankles. Call it a form intensive.
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| Night Sleep Time: 8.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 8.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 1.50 | 0.25 | 0.00 | 5.75 |
| I made up the track workout that I missed last night. Had to do it on my own, but it wasn't too bad. Here's what it is: 2 mile warm up jog, following by the special warm up exercises I always do. Then, a series of 10 drills, all forms of explosive hopping or jumping, following by an easy lap around the track. Then 4 all out 100M sprints (I did these barefoot down the infield!). A couple of minute cool down, then 1.5 miles at 5K pace. Usually I struggle to keep this right on 5K pace and to keep it consistent at 1:48 per lap, but this morning I was great! A few of my laps were dead on 1:48! Maybe its the lack of distraction from other people. After the 5K laps, just a couple of miles cool down. Then some stretching, home to write my blog. Now the stretching/strength workout on the floor. |
| New Saucony Guide Miles: 5.75 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 7.50 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 7.50 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 4.14 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.14 |
| Ordinary run; a few MP miles in the middle. My focus was on form and breathing. I tried to keep the easy miles at a two breath in two breath out effort; the MP miles 3 and 3. I forgot to mention yesterday that I ran 1200m barefoot during my track workout. It felt great, and I really felt like I could have done all the track miles with no shoes. I'll have to add a bare shoe to my blog; the miles are adding up! It is really striking how natural the stride feels when barefoot. Its actually effortless without trying to be effortless. I've been drinking coconut water after my runs; it seems to be getting a lot of attention as a serious recovery beverage, and I thought I'd give it a try. It is loaded with pottasium, magnesium and calcium, as well a many other nutrients, antioxidants, aminoacids, and enzymes. | |
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| Night Sleep Time: 8.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 8.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 3.25 | 0.00 | 1.50 | 0.25 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| Same workout as Tuesday, except that the 5K pace mileage is increased to 2400. I really dread these 5K miles, I think just because my legs are tired from the hopping and jumping exercises, followed by the 100M all-outs. I managed 10:40 for the 2400, though. I really want to time the 100M all-outs next time, because they are really super fun and I feel pretty fast. I think I accelerate up to all out speed pretty efficiently. I will time them on Monday. Its rainy today; first time in 4 ever! Pretty windy too. Temperature at 5:30am was 55 degrees, though, so definitely not cold yet. |
| New Saucony Guide Miles: 5.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 5.67 | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 13.67 |
| Nice windy run today. The rain stopped and it was warmish; just a stiff breeze coming off of the bay. I don't like wind, but it was just for a few miles until we got into the woods. The run was supposed to be 11 or so easy miles, then 1 mile at 5K and the rest easy. Obviously, it didn't turn out that way. Splits: 8:49, 6:06 (this was actually the .67 mile, mostly strides for warmup; that's why it was so fast), 9:19, 8:49, 8:42, 9:16, 9:10, 8:55, 9:25, 8:46, 9:06, 8:31, 8:17, 8:04. A nice run all in all, even though it did not fulfill the training requirements! I was pleased to have my fastest miles at the end, since I was aiming for mental toughness and I was tired! At the end my toes were all bloody due to a shoe issue. Why does that have to happen. |
| NB Orange Shoes Miles: 13.67 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 7.00 | Nap Time: 0.50 | Total Sleep Time: 7.50 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 26.26 | 11.00 | 3.00 | 0.50 | 0.00 | 40.76 |
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| Saucony Miles: 9.20 | New Saucony Guide Miles: 10.75 | Vroom Shoes Miles: 7.14 | NB Orange Shoes Miles: 13.67 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 41.00 | Nap Time: 1.50 | Total Sleep Time: 42.50 | |
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