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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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Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
9.000.000.000.000.009.00

1:15:57 (might have been a little shorter than 9 did wu and cd on the trails, some of which were pretty steep)

28:34 wu

12 x :25 about 3K race pace w/1` recovery

29:24 cd

Had a choice to run 60`-75` easy or do this workout -- decided that my legs felt pretty fresh and decided to do the workout - for next couple of months I can choose between some very short bursts of speed on Tuesday or easy runs -- I plan to do as many of these as possible.  These workouts are supposed to help leg turnover lactic acid tolerance ... so they are really good training for just about any training distance (Greg wrote an article about this in Running Times last year) - they sound pretty easy, and for the most part they are, unless you do the first few too fast, in which the last ones are pretty hard!!  The best part is they are short enough that there is no real penalty for doing them, they don't really trash your legs.  When you do them in the middle of the run they also seem to give you the added stimulus of running when your legs are a little fatigued.

It was so BEAUTIFUL today - perfect weather! Dean saw a tarantula yesterday afternoon on the trail!! yuck! he even poked it with a stick to see if it was alive!!!  I guess it would be cool to see, but I am afraid it would scare me -- and then I would fall off the trail!!

 

 

 

Comments
From Michelle on Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 09:24:02

It's good to see another lady breaking into the Mileage Board!

My husband is a faculty at BYU in Information Systems. What are you a professor of? I considered getting my PhD in Accounting at the U, but in the end decided public accounting is the place for me.

How did you find a running coach as a mature adult? The blog is my coach for now (yeah that's you Sasha and all other faithful posters).

From Bonnie on Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 09:37:12

Hi Michelle,

Actually, my boyfriend was my coach for the first year I was running and then for my 40th birthday he bought me 3 months with Greg McMillan. He did a lot of research on the philosophy of available coaches, and even interviewed them!! In the end, he went with Greg and I have been with Greg since then. I am very lucky!

I have a PhD in biostatistics, we work closely with informations systems/bioinformatics people. I would imagine that public accounting would be more interesting than academic accounting -- but that might be because I don't know too much about what types of things that academic accountants do besides teach ... and I don't teach much.

This blog is a great coach and is a very supportive place.

Happy running!

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