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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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AM:(~11.5 miles, 1:29:32).  26:33 wu/25:15 cd. Fartlek workout 20 x 1`w/1` recovery.  Warm-up and cool down was somewhere around 2.5-3 miles.  The fartlek portion was a little shy of 300 meters -- I was going to go down the track, but I have a sinus/head cold and thought a workout based solely on effort would be better right now than one where I was trying to hit a time.  Anyway, it was slightly faster or right at 5K effort (~ 6:45 pace -- which means the first 15 felt pretty good, and the last 5 were kind of tough ;-)).

PM:(4 miles easy).  

Have a wonderful day bloggers! 

Comments
From MichelleL on Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 12:47:36 from 67.41.231.162

Nice job!

From Carolyn in Colorado on Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 13:11:27 from 24.8.167.243

I'm still impressed that you can keep track of 20 repeats. I hope your cold is short-lived.

From LuzyLew on Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 19:30:49 from 208.187.197.42

You are unstoppable lady! The cold situation sucks. I've had bronchitis/sinus infection for about 2 weeks. Today when I was on the trail I did the ol' runner's blow (discretely of course) but after I'd done that, my face/forhead/nose made this incredible noise like letting the air out of a ballon when you've stretched the opening to make 'that sound'. Yeah, my face. I didn't know I had that much pressure going on in there. Anyway, incredible Thursday effort! Get better soon!

From auntieem on Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 21:24:31 from 67.182.146.94

Yeah, I would lose track around 11 and wonder how many I'd done. Then I'd stress out the rest of the day in case I didn't do enough. Nice work; hope the sinus stuff goes away quickly.

From Smooth on Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 01:07:35 from 174.23.198.220

That's a GREAT fartlek! AWESOME miles as usual! Hope your cold goes away real soon!

From Bonnie on Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 13:06:49 from 128.196.228.134

Thank you everyone -- I don't like colds ... but so far it is more of an annoyance than anything serious. Dean's only lasted a couple of days, so I am hoping mine will follow the same course.

Luzy -- yuck that sounds horrible. Be careful and get well soon!

Auntie and Carolyn, I actually do 4 sets of 5 -- it makes it easier to keep track of than counting 20 of them ... and with 1` it is easy to keep track of the amount of time and get an idea (e.g., 20 of them took 40` so 10 of them should take 20`, etc.).

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