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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, Mar 02, 2010

Easy Miles	Threshold Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Track speed mileage	Hill mileage	Total
14.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	14.00

AM: (~10 miles, 1:29:31). 9 hilly miles + 8 x 100m strides. I say ~10 miles because I am sure it was longer than 10. I ran to my turn-around point (rather than my time) and got there with almost 4 mins to spare! quite a surprise, I guess I am feeling frisky today!

PM: (4 miles easy).

A coyote came right up to our bedroom door this morning - if Dean hadn't have moved he would have run into the house! I think he was following a scent -- most likely Titus the cat (who had "just" came back inside, yikes!).

Have a wonderful day and week bloggers!

Comments

From Burt on Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 12:13:36 from 206.19.214.144

Did the coyote scare you? I think they're beautiful.

From Bonnie on Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 12:23:27 from 64.119.33.134

No, they don't scare me ... many times when I see them on the trails they just sit and watch me go by. They scare me for Titus though ;-) I am not sure he is fast enough to evade one. Actually, as the one this morning "trotted" off, he was joined by 2 friends, which would have made evasion by Titus pretty much impossible. I watched three of them run down a bunny one time ...

From Carolyn in Colorado on Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 15:51:19 from 24.8.167.243

Living among the wildlife is making you frisky.

From auntieem on Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 18:34:49 from 67.182.146.94

OOHh. I am scared for Titus too. We have zillions of coyotes in our street/neighborhood, and I'm always trying to wrestle the cats in before dark. They hate me for it.

From Bonnie on Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 21:30:49 from 128.196.228.134

It is funny, it is like Titus knows that it is different here from the old house. He wants to come in at night. Good thing too!! In the old house he would always stay out all night (and I hated it!).

From Kelli on Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 23:25:20 from 71.219.89.82

Your door was open? That would scare me. When I ran Del Sol last year I could hear the coyotes when I was running in the middle of the night and it scared me to death! You are BRAVE!

Nice RUNS!

From Snoqualmie on Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 10:31:51 from 24.18.192.33

Titus probably smells all the predators out there. I would have been pretty freaked out. We already lost one cat to the coyotes.

Great running today!

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