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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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Hello bloggers!  It is late, but I ran 2:10:32 on Sunday.  I ran on near Tempe Town Lake area and then to Papago park and back.   It was really hot (like in the 90s) by the time I finished, but I felt pretty darn good anyway.  It is waaay too hot here for April ... I just want my last couple weeks of "regular running" to be comfortable ... but, I will take what I can get, and try to like it!

We went to the track meet (Sun Angel Meet) on Saturday night, got up super early and drove the 35 mins to John's house by 7AM to get some ART.  I am bruised like crazy, but my leg feels better than it has in weeks.  Literally weeks, even with the low mileage!

I will need to summarize the track meet later, because it is very late and I am tired.  But the highlights were:  W 1500 with Kenia Sinclair, Beverly Ramos (Puerto Rican steeple champion), and  Lisa Aguilera  - with McMillan athletes Stephanie Rothstein, Kellyn Johnson and Amy Van Alstine.  Good race!  In the M 1500 Nate Brannen just dominated the last 200 and ran a respectable start of the track season.  I can't wait for the Trials!!! (it won't hold a candle to the Wedding Bells 5K -- but it will run a close 2nd ;-).

I am so crazy busy right now I can't tell you ... but I just did.  so there!

 

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter.   

 

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AM: (8 miles, 1:09:45).  I wanted to run longer, but I am so busy right now.  I had a 8AM deadline that I got up super early for, and then I had to get out for my run and drive up to my Tuesday morning lab meeting (far from campus) where it was my turn to give the talk (I gave the talk about the project that one of my students just finished for his MS in statistics, wasn't really my project ... but advisor's prerogative ;-))

PM: easy 4.

 

Happy Tuesday bloggers. 

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True to form for the week, overwhelmed at work, and not enough time to run as I would like.  I can't wait until the semester is over!  I would say, I can't wait until my surgery because I will get some down-time then, but, I don't think I am actually looking forward to that so never mind ;-)

 

Happy Hump-Day bloggers! 

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AM: (9 miles, 1:19:54).  So nice to have a relaxing run for a change -- I was in a hurry, but not like usual.  And, it was so much cooler today, 60s baby!!  

PM: 4 miles easy.

 

Tomorrow is going to be tough.  Up by 4, long drive up to Phoenix, hours at the imaging center ... I am sort of depressed today so it all just seems so ... well, so much.

But, I have this huge grant due, so I can't really get too depressed, although I would like nothing better than to put my head under the covers and dream it all away.

I hope you are all having a good Thursday bloggers ... tell me about it and make me laugh. 

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You are all so wonderful.

 

I hope you had a wonderful day.  I am a little too depressed to write now ... nothing life-threatening, but more of a wrinkle, and  more "waiting"to hear whether or not current "plan" will work or we will need to revise the plan.  There is a plan, I will live, but cancer is complicated -- as I am finding out.

 

More later.  Don't worry. 

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AM: (8 miles, 1:11:45).  It was COLD today bloggers (45F, cloudy, and windy).  I was warm once I started running, but when I first started out I was freezing -- what  a desert wimp I have become ...

PM: easy 4.

 

So, yesterday was hard, and I was pretty depressed.  I did talk to my surgeon today though, and we decided to go with surgery next week as planned.  The problem is that the "area of concern" is much larger than originally thought (4.5 cm).  There are a lot of 'unknowns' (e.g., is it all DCIS or could part of it be invasive -- or even benign) and it just isn't clear how much tissue will need to be removed.  There is a strong case to be made for mastectomy and just get it done with, but I am just not ready to go through that if there is any chance that I don't have to.  My surgeon couldn't really tell me what to do, he just gave me the pro's and con's to any choice I made.  I have decided that I am going to try for a lumpectomy first, and if the margins don't come back clear, or they find worse things then I will have the mastectomy.  It means I might have more than one surgery in the next weeks ... but it also means I might have a chance to save my breast.  It is worth the chance to me.  It really was quite a shock to me (and my surgeon I think) to have this end up being so big of an area -- but none of the radiographic technologies are perfect (MRI/mammogram/sonogram) so until we do the surgery we just really aren't going to know ... sigh.

 

Happy Saturday bloggers!!  Can't wait until Monday.  Interesting that Boston decided to defer entries for next year  because of the forecast ... be careful out there bloggers, adjust for the elements.

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