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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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Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	0.00

Fri, Jun 29, 2012

Easy Miles	Threshold Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Track speed mileage	Hill mileage	Total
6.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	6.00

I am taking it easy the rest of this week, I was super fatigued yesterday and realized that it really was the first week I had worked my "usual" hours ... AND, I am really hoping to be able to run 10 miles on Sunday -- even though Dean wants me to take it easy this week, wrt running, I am chomping at the bit to work back up to my normal mileage and get back to normal. Anyway, I am sacrificing a couple of miles today and tomorrow for the bigger picture.

GREAT, WONDERFUL, STUPENDOUS track and field last night. The men's 5K final was just a cliff-hanger -- and although most of the race was slow and tactical, Rupp and Lagat threw down a 52.54 last lap!!!! Holy cow we were yelling at the TV!! And the men's 3000 Steeple was so amazing -- Evan Jager just ran away from one of the most talented steeplechase fields that the US has ever had, and it was only his 4th time running the event (he was a miler in college) - insanity!!! The women's 5K was a great, but heartbreaking, race - that was down to the wire - and the 3rd place spot went to a woman who did not have the Olympic standard coming into the race (15:20) so she had to run that in the race AND come in the top 3 to go to London, and she did it by a millisecond! Oh Happy Days!!

Comments

From Adam RW on Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 12:12:28 from 67.182.250.241

Sorry I missed your visit the other weekend. It has been a long time. When I ran into Jake this week he mentioned some of what you have been through this last year. I'm so happy to see that it looks like things are working out for you and life is getting back to normal, slowly but surely. Have a great weekend.

From Bonnie on Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 12:15:08 from 64.119.33.134

Hi Adam! Thank you for the note. All is well, although I would have loved to see you last weekend, I completely understand the life of research! (and especially with a growing family). I never wrote you either and told you how happy I was to hear about your grant being funded!! We are STILL waiting to hear about our huge grant -- and it was scored over 13 months ago!!

From Adam RW on Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 12:24:35 from 67.182.250.241

My fingers are crossed for you. From the time I submitted to the time my K-award started was 16 months and mine was relatively small. How are things there at the university?

From Bonnie on Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 12:35:39 from 64.119.33.134

Tough here ... too many high-level searches going on (new president, ongoing searches for: provost, dean of the college of medicine, and cancer center director!!). Too many junior faculty and not enough mid-level to replace outgoing senior faculty/researchers. Fairly tumultuous times even without the fiscal crisis!! I am ok (for now) ... luckily, my skill-set is flexible and so lately I have been submitting some other large grants with the respiratory center -- looking at integration of NGS, epigenetics, and DNA methylation in predicting asthma ... a different biologic/mechanistic pathway, but similar technologies as I have worked with in the past. My main area (besides general biostatistics) is still colon cancer (and microRNA transcription in the polyamine pathway).

From Adam RW on Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 12:54:26 from 155.101.144.2

Did I mention my K-award if half on epigenetics? In diabetes though, small world. It is one of the "buzz" fields right now though. I have not gotten into the microRNA although two of my friends are. One in the context of heart failure (faculty in Germany) and the other in lung development and IUGR (here at the U). One of my good friends is moving into cancer, more general. He is a graduate student who just identified the pyruvate transporter (first author Science paper in his first year in the lab!). Back to it I'm finding everything to do but work on the review due mid-July... :)

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