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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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7.000.000.000.000.007.00

1:05:45.  Probably a little longer than 7, I went a little further than last Friday.  This is not an out-and-back but sort of an out-and-loop - so I can't actually run a fixed distance and then run back the same amount of time - I have my *major* climbs during the last 2.5 miles, but the majority of the first part are just minor hills - there are no flat parts to this run, it is either up or down.  Good training.  I am hurting bad though.  I don't know what is wrong with my lower leg - John fixed it on Saturday, Sunday was great, but I am a limping mess the first mile of my runs, and today I felt it the whole time (though it was slightly better on the uphills).   Best case it is a Soleus muscle strain, worse case it is a tibial stress fracture (or stress reaction).  I am doing some exercises (on top of the ones John gave me last week) -- and have a massage tomorrow, so I am keeping my fingers crossed on the muscle strain.  

I hope you are all having a wonderful week so far!! 

Comments
From Burt on Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:18:47 from 206.19.214.144

Worse case is a tibial stress fracture or stress reaction? Shouldn't one of those be worse than the other? Fingers crossed.

From Teena Marie on Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:21:21 from 174.52.45.85

So sorry, Bonnie.

Here's to your body cooperating with your spirit!

Never thought I'd be rooting for a soleus strain!!

Hang in there.

From Mike on Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 15:04:56 from 64.235.121.242

Isn't pain your body's way of telling you to stop, Ms Hardcore?

From Bonnie on Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 15:28:04 from 128.196.228.134

naaaa ... what does my body know? You might be right Mike, but I am looking for other solutions first ;)

From auntieem on Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 10:11:17 from 71.197.249.174

So hard to decide whether or not to run with pain! Hope the leg gets better, and it's not a stress thing.

From KP on Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 10:23:54 from 65.208.22.26

hope is it nothing major!

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