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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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44:42.  Easy, albeit a little hillier than I would have liked, run.  My foot was killing me yesterday so I went to therapist #2 to see if she could work the magic spot that John found last week ... now I have a big knot in my bum, but my foot feels better.  I told her what John had said, and she knew right away what it was.  My sciatic nerve is getting inflamed around the area of the piriformis muscle -- there are two little muscles below the belly of the piriformis and the sciatic nerve runs between them and the piriformis itself.  Somewhere in there I have some adhesions (knots) and it is all inflamed.  So the sciatic is causing my problems all the way from the hip area to my foot.  It is pretty painful - I guess I don't mind the knot in my bum as much as the pain in my foot ;-).  I am also hoping I can block this all out come Saturday morning ...

I am in a hurry to get some work done and then head to the airport.  Good luck to all the bloggers on their races this weekend -- I hope you have PERFECT weather in Utah and beyond. 

Comments
From Carolyn in Colorado on Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 12:20:05 from 24.8.167.243

It's too bad that the pain has to be somewhere.

Have a safe flight! Is this travel to the race?

From Tracy on Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 13:07:33 from 209.175.177.37

Sorry that you're feeling pain right now. It is amazing to me how muscles/ligaments live in harmony most of the time, but when there is a problem in one area it usually has far reaching effects elsewhere. My problems all stem from my feet and travel up; yours stem from above and affect you down below.

Crazy

From auntieem on Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 16:21:04 from 24.18.77.246

This is similar to my problem, and what has resulted in all this pain in my right leg. I am working with a PT who breaks up the adhesions!

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