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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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Tue, Jun 09, 2009

Easy Miles	Threshold Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Track speed mileage	Hill mileage	Total
13.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	13.00

AM: (9 miles, 1:20:16) (40:49/39:26).

not much time to write ... have to go finish my grant.

PM: (4 miles, 35:38).

Hopefully, if I can get everything uploaded to the NIH form before it is too late. I have to take over 40 page of grant and break it down into 14 different sections, make pdf of each section and upload them one-at-a-time. Then it gets sent over to the grants office on main campus and hopefully, they submit it before the Friday midnight deadline.

Then I sleep for 12-14 hours.

Have a good day bloggers.

Comments

From Kelli on Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 12:28:37 from 71.219.74.247

Oh, I HOPE you get that sleep!!! You deserve it!

Good luck with the grant writing---tough work!

From Carolyn in Colorado on Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 15:10:11 from 71.229.164.25

Good luck with the grant. Is this actually a grant proposal that you're hoping to have approved?

And get that sleep.

From Bonnie on Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 15:25:04 from 128.196.228.134

Thanks Kelli and Carolyn. It is scarey to think I am going to get behind the wheel of a car ...

No Carolyn it is a research grant that I hope to get funded (for a lot of money I might add) through the National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Center. It is what I do ... I get tenure/promoted by demontrating I am a productive member of the scientific community - by publishing peer-reviewed papers, obtaining grant funding to continue my research and putting out graduate students that extend my research specialization. It is a weird sub-culture.

This application will be reviewed by ~20 "peers" (other academics), along with probably 50-100 other grants. Then NIH decides which ones to fund - it takes about 7 months to find out. But if I get it, it will fund my research for 5 years.

From Kelli on Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 19:25:03 from 71.219.74.247

Oh, then I really hope you get it! That would be awesome----5 years of funding and no worries about money!

From Snoqualmie on Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:33:53 from 67.171.56.164

Congratulations on making it to the home stretch!

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