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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, Oct 27, 2009
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AM: (10+ miles, 1:27:07).  Ran my usual 9 or so miles + 8 x ~100m strides.  Felt super good today -- probably because it was cold, gloriously cold!

PM: (4 miles at the track).  I might run more, it depends on a couple of things.  Dean and I rode in together today (because we had to sign some loan documents for our new house) - he is going to the track to do some drills tonight, so I figured I can get my second run in then.  But, first 4 miles slow on the track is really boring so 4 might be all I can bear, and second, there is a huge weather front coming in today and they are forcasting up to 45mph wind -- that would be horrid on the track!! We have had record highs the last couple of weeks -- and in one day it is supposed to drop to record lows!  wow.


Comments
From Carolyn in Colorado on Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 21:31:52 from 24.8.167.243

I envy your idea of cold, but not your idea of heat. I cannot imagine the heat you run in, so I'll let you have your version of cold. We've got a storm coming too and the wind has really been blowing the leaves around this evening.

From Snoqualmie on Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:54:44 from 24.18.192.33

"Cold," like below 80F?

From Bonnie on Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 12:38:56 from 75.164.100.248

Yes, lower than 80F - it was about 45F actually. We actually live in 3000ft and we have a place to ski in the mountains right outside of town. By tonight it will be in the 30s (down here - probably down to the teens at the 5000-7000ft elevations) as the temperature is dropping right now. It snowed last night at about 6000ft (about 20 miles from where we live now). By winter it will be snowing some in the mountains that we will be living in ... probably not a lot where our house is, but not very far away. Granted, by most afternoons we are in the 60s, but when the sun goes down the desert is pretty cold ...

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