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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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Wed, Jul 21, 2010

Easy Miles	Threshold Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Track speed mileage	Hill mileage	Total
7.50	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	7.50

1:11:45 (could have been 8? but is was a trail run and I ran easy so I am counting it as 7.5). Ran a "new" (to this trip) set of trails, I ran on both the Valley Fort and Schultz Creek trails. They are pretty easy and I enjoyed myself immensely!

I have a new *car* battery, and my *cell phone* battery is charged, so I won't need to flag anyone down today ;) AAA was great, they came out in a hail storm and replaced my battery, checked the alternator and electric system and got everything functioning again. Awesome, I just can't believe I waited this long to become a member!!

I am way busy today, apparently my PhD student is not able to work independently at all, she has been working on a problem for 6 weeks and has not made ANY, I repeat ANY progress. To make matters worse, she is supposed to be presenting this at a conference next week. So, I have to throw something together for her to present (stuff that I did a long time ago) ... ARG!

Happy Wednesday bloggers!

Comments

From auntieem on Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 17:20:07 from 24.18.77.246

Glad you are fully charged!

Bummer about the PhD student; such a drag for you to have to do all of her work!

From Carolyn in Colorado on Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 22:54:03 from 24.8.167.243

I was going to say something about your being all charged up, but auntieem beat me too it.

How did your PhD student make it this far?

From Bonnie on Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 16:29:10 from 70.41.211.48

She is smart and does well in class, it is the first time she is working on something that doesn't have a solution and she doesn't know what to do when she gets stuck. She still has about 2 years of dissertation work (she is done with classes) and hopefully she will learn a little more self-direction during that process and learn when to ask for help (not that I have the solution, I just have some things that she could have tried). Mainly, I know how to present "not quite finished problems" better than her (since I have so many of them) ;-). It is all part of the process, but frustrating for me sometimes.

From catherine on Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 20:11:39 from 67.169.248.86

Good luck with the PhD student. My adviser would probably say the same thing about me (lack of self-direction; I've been stuck at the dissertation stage for a couple of years already). She probably appreciates you. :)

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