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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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Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
15.000.000.000.000.0015.00

Ran on the Berri bike path!

 

Conference started today.  Met Nate Silver late at night in the business center (he is giving the invited talk for the conference) - we both are staying on the concierge level of the hotel and it was after the opening mixer for the conference.  I had to print off some things for a meeting that I was chairing the next morning -- it was probably about midnight.  I thought to myself how funny it would be if he too was in the business center -- and just as I was finishing up, in he walks!   For those of you who don't know Nate Silver, he is a statistician/reporter (he calls himself a reporter - we call him a statistician) who correctly called the Presidential election and nearly 100% of the congressional seats in both 2008 and 2012 -- he also has a couple of books, a very popular blog on the NY Times website (though he is moving to ESPN this year) - and has been doing the late night TV circuit (Tonight Show, Daily Show, Colbert Report, etc.) for the past year or so.  I showed him around, told him how happy we were that he was speaking at the conference, etc. and out he walks.  I later realized I had not introduced myself, and most likely thought I worked for the hotel :)  Luckily, I met him at a reception on monday night -- so I think that misconception might have been cleared up :) 

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Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
13.000.000.000.000.0013.00

AM: (9 miles)

PM: easy 4 miles 

 

It is hot here :) 

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Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
7.000.000.000.000.007.00

1 hour run ... work is tough -- lots of catching up to do!

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Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
13.000.000.000.000.0013.00

AM: 9 miles, the last 20 at ~ steady state pace (1/2 marathon to marathon)

PM: easy 4 

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Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
7.000.000.000.000.007.00

whew!

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Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
12.000.000.000.000.0012.00

AM: 8 miles (it was hot)

PM: easy 4 -- still hot :) 

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Easy MilesThreshold MilesMarathon Pace MilesTrack speed mileageHill mileageTotal
67.000.000.000.000.0067.00
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