| 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: |
|
Click to donate
to Ukraine's Armed Forces
|
| Miles: | This week: | 0.00 |
Month: | 0.00 |
Year: | 0.00 |
|
| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 71.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 71.00 |
|
| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 13.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 13.50 |
|
1:55:55 (isnt that cool?). Today was awesome, I just went out and explored some trails. I felt like I could run forever, I was not running hard and just felt good! The weather was perfect, low 50s, cloudy (a storm is blowing through), and just right. I am lucky to be able to run almost 2 hours straight, not have to worry about water (since it is so cool) and feel so good afterward.
The good news is the Arizona Wildcats beat the Sun Devils 20-17 yesterday. The bad news was that there were 5 serious accidents, and 2 people died, on the freeway between here and Phoenix. The storm and high winds caused a severe dust/sand storm that made driving very dangerous. Many of them were going to the football game, or traveling because of the holiday, and it is very sad.
Be safe and well bloggers. | | Comments(4) |
| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
|
AM:(10 miles, 1:28:06). Hilly run + 8 x 100m strides. So, I guess it takes me 3 days to recover from a 5K ... today I felt SO good. The run was awesome, pretty, perfect weather (39F and sunny). I think I saw Abdi today. Whoever it was was FAST. They had that stride that you only see on really really fast people who are trying to run easy, I can't describe it very well, but I know it when I see it.
PM:(4 miles, maybe 4.5, easy).
Have a great day bloggers. Only two more lectures -- YEA!
I am moving this mileage to the correct day -- but leaving the blog here -- this run was actually for December 1, 2009 ... I don't want to mess up my "monthly" averages so I am moving the miles to the right day. I am a dork, I know. | | Comments(5) |
| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 14.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 14.00 |
| blog for today is on November 30th. | | Add Comment |
| | 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 |
|
1:01:35. Recovery run on the Yeatman trail. Beautiful ... cold this morning (39F), but the trail is actually much colder because it goes through a valley that gets very little sun, and there is some sort of wind tunnel through there, it is always colder there. So very pretty though!
Happy hump day bloggers! | | Comments(4) |
| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 17.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 17.00 |
|
AM: (13.5 miles - or thereabouts, 1:51:06). Stamina today. 3 x 3200 w/400 recovery (target : 7:20 pace --1/2 marathon pace, so shouldn't be that hard now should it?) + 31:32 wu, 30:03 cd. My splits were 7:19, 7:17 (3:07), 7:19, 7:18, (2:42), 7:14, 7:11.
~ 3.5 miles downhill to the track, a very painful uphill home. This pace is my sweet spot. I can find pace pretty easy and just stay there with little concentration; it is not an "easy" pace for me, but it is not "hard" either. Very nice. I will be hating it when in a few weeks Greg has me doing this same workout at 10K pace (hard hard hard, I actually haven't ever been able to 3 x 2 miles before, we'll see if this will be the year!). The run back home was not as bad as I had anticipated, it is uphill the whole way, but gradual for most of it ... as Dean warned me "you just can't be in a hurry" ;-).
PM: (3.5 or maybe 4 miles, they will be very very easy).
Happy Thursday bloggers, I am in a very good mood today. | | Comments(5) |
| | 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 |
|
1:03:44. Easy recovery run around the 'hood. Legs a little sore today ... the hills were a bit hard.
I am so happy it is Friday! I just found out that we will be hosting one of Gregs elite athletes next weekend, Andrew "Middle" is running the Tucson half-marathon, pretty sure he is going for the win. GO ANDREW!
| | Comments(1) |
| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 12.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.50 |
|
AM: (9 miles, 1:18:55). Ran with Dean ... we went to the community college (where the track is) and ran on the trails there. It is so nice - good amount of hills, for the most part the footing is good. What a nice morning. I do have to say, Dean is getting in shape pretty quickly. He was injured for most of this year, but was able to run about 4 mile/day about 4-5 days/week. Greg told me after my marathon that as long as you run 4-5 days/week you can "maintain" baseline fitness -- I think that our micro-experiment with Dean has born that out. For the past month Dean has been building back to about 6 days/week - maybe 50 miles or so and I think the number of days we can run together is numbered. Even though he was trying hard to keep it easy, it was still obvious that he was struggling to keep at my pace. I am hopeful that maybe he can race sometime either late this summer or early fall ...
PM: (3.5 miles easy).
We are on our way to Phoenix to see our ART therapist ... I am having some problems with my hip and hamstring ...I need to nip this in the bud!
Have a great day bloggers -- I hope you all had sucessful and fun races today especially our Carolyn in Colorado!
| | Comments(1) |
| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 71.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 71.00 |
|
|
|
| Debt Reduction Calculator |
|
New Kids on the Blog
(need a welcome):
Lone Faithfuls
(need a comment):
|