| 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). Favorite Blogs: |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 61.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 61.50 |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 13.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 13.00 |
| Same as last week -- still feeling pretty good, maybe better since it is cooler these days. Yesterday was very exciting on the homefront ... funny, but long story.
Jake and Lucy (brown dog, blond dog) were lounging on their beds enjoying the siesta time (I, of course, was working). All of a sudden Jake jumps up and goes insane! Dean just gets frustrated with him, I actually recognize some annoying behaviors as "interesting" :). Remember, we live out in the mountains, so we don't really have close neighbors ... so I look outside and there is a guy (one of our neighbors) in our driveway - and his wife is on the other side of our property on the phone. I ran outside to see what is going on and my neighbor says, "you have horses near your garage" -- ha ha -- they were our other neighbors horses! and they were in front of our garage.
First, we corraled them into our fenced yard ... and then spoke with our horse-owning neighbors over the phone -- luckily, I am not afraid of horses (unlike the other neighbors!) - so I just used apples to entice them into the yard. It was quite the fun - using the rest of the afternoon inspecting the corral to see how they escaped (gate was left open), trying to find rope to lead them home again (up the hill over the game trails that link our driveways), and feeding them hay (both in our yard, and after we got them back home). You know, now that I am writing this it doesn't sound nearly as exciting as it was that day :-) -- believe me, it was a couple hour ordeal, and caused no end of excitment in dogs, cat, and humans of the house!
Happy week, bloggers!
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 8.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.50 |
| what a day -- I had very early morning meetings, so I decided to run my easy 4 in the morning, and then was planning on running ~8 miles in the evening. I had to give a talk, I ended up roped into a series of meetings ... and before you know it -- it is 6PM and I am starting my run. Drat -- it was dark by the time I got 2 miles into it (for those of you who have never been to Tucson, or heard me tell you this, Tucson is a low/no light city - which means there are very few places with street lights, when it is dark here - it is really dark - and I was not prepared for this - no reflective material, no headlamp, no nothing, just old eyes :)). Bummer. The only thing that made me feel a tiniest bit better about this was that there is some sort of virus going around work - and now that I am one of "those" people with a compromised immune system (because of my medication) I have to be super careful, so taking it easy is probably in order anyway -- but still -- I was incredibly disappointed!
AM: easy 4
PM: easy 4.5
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| Hilly 8 -- beautifully cool morning!!
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 13.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 13.00 |
| AM: 9 miles
PM: 4 miles
Spent most of the day at the car dealership, getting my car serviced, luckily, the have nice little cubicles to work in :-)
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 7.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
| 3.5 up and 3.5 down ... Cool, beautiful!
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 12.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.00 |
| AM: 8
PM: 4
First day off work in nearly 2 months ... Yes!
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