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Location:

Tucson,AZ,USA

Member Since:

Aug 30, 2007

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Age Division Winner

Running Accomplishments:

PR's

5K: 21:26 (2005)

4 mile: 28:10 (2005)

10K: 43:33 (2010)

10 mile: 1:13:35 (2009) (1:12:15 split in 1/2 marathon, 2011)

1/2 marathon: 1:34:31 (2011)

marathon: 3:19:15 (2013)

Short-Term Running Goals:

 

3:20 marathon - Eugene Marathon, April 28, 2013 (can I say I really want a sub 3:20? but I will be happy with 3:20-3:23) -- whoohoo!

Some good intermediate races 15K - 1/2 marathon, to gauge my fitness level (done this, hit a 1:34:35 1/2 marathon in March 2013, on a hilly course)

Going after my 10 mile PR in Fall 2013

Maybe some good 10K races after the infernal Arizona summer is over! 




Long-Term Running Goals:

I want to be one of those runners who is still running in their 80s (or 90s?).  You know the ones, who look all grisley and fit?  That is what I would like!  Until then, I just want to work hard and be as fast as I can, for as long as I can.


Personal:

50 year old, trying to defy gravity and time

Used to be faculty at the University of Arizona (biostatistics).  Currently manager of the statistics and data management group for companion diagnostics (biomarkers) at Ventana Medical Systems, Inc. (Roche diagnostics).  We evaluate protein biomarkers that can be used to direct drug therapy that would be most effective based on individual characteristics (personalized medicine).

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1:02:04.  The usual in terms of weather and road conditions (hot and hilly).  So, "irony" - when you run an alternate route to avoid snakes and then come within 2 cm of stepping on one on the alternate route.  This was pretty scary.  I was not paying attention really, I was thinking about this last bit that I have to write on my grant and by the time I saw him/her I almost stepped on its rattle ... it actually was up and in striking position too -- yikes.  So this new route is a hilly dirt road wide enough for one car so it is a little safer than a trail where if you see a snake you might not have anywhere to go (rather than over them).  I sped up quite a bit after this, adrenaline I think ;-).

Have a good day bloggers! 

Congratulations to our own Samantha Howard, her Bengal kittie had *7* kittens in the wee hours of the morning yesterday. Mom and "kitty Mom" are doing well ;) 

Comments
From Burt on Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 12:11:42 from 206.19.214.144

It's like rain on your wedding day.

From KP on Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 12:17:23 from 65.208.22.25

it's a free ride when you've already paid.

From allie on Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 15:36:17 from 174.23.194.233

it's the good advice that you just didn't take.

From Kim on Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 15:45:31 from 67.199.180.90

OK Bonnie! That's close enough on the snake encounters! I would have been freaking out and probably caused it to strike at me! I do not like snakes! Be careful in that rattler territory! And keep the little kitties away from them too! : )

From Bonnie on Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 16:46:31 from 128.196.228.134

who woulda thought? ... it figures

Hi Kim - I don't like snakes either, but it is their terrain, so I respect them!!

I laughingly told Dean that I see more snakes than people, ergo, there must be more snakes than people here ;-).

From Bonnie on Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 16:56:05 from 128.196.228.134

And isn't it ironic...don't you think

A little too ironic...and, yeah, I really do think...

hissssssss

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