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Location:

MA,USA

Member Since:

Jul 06, 2009

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

5 miles: 30 min 7/4/09

Hartford Half Marathon: 1:24:34 11/10/2009

Short-Term Running Goals:

run a 5 min mile

~~Break 30 min for 5 miles~~

New Goal: Break 27 minutes for a 5 mile

~~break 20 min for 5K~~

~~run 1:30 half marathon~~ New Goal: run a 1:20 half marathon

run sub 3 hour marathon

Long-Term Running Goals:

same as above plus stay healthy and happy

Personal:

college student

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Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	0.00
Asics 1130 Lifetime Miles:						151.90
Asics 1140 Lifetime Miles:						211.50

Tue, Jul 21, 2009

Running Miles	Swimming Yards	Bike Miles
7.00	0.00	0.00

1.5 mile warmup including 4X100 strides, 800, 1200, 800, 800, 1200, "magic 800", 2 mile cool down with 200 rest jog between intervals

Times: 2:47, 4:15, 2:47, 2:49, 4:25, "magic 800"

I have been feeling a little tendonitis pain in my knee since running that 19 miles which makes warming up not too comfortable. Any hints on how to help that go away other than taking advil/aspirin?

Also rowed for about 2 hours today.. great way to relax on the water and get some upper body work in. It was a nice sunny day and I knew I had to take advantage.

Asics 1130 Miles: 7.00

Night Sleep Time: 9.00	Nap Time: 0.00	Total Sleep Time: 9.00	Weight: 0.00	Calories: 0.00

Comments

From Nan Kennard on Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 22:44:57 from 67.165.238.15

I highly recommend running on a division 1 college team. If I were you I would go meet the cross country and track coaches at your college asap and tell them your times, your goals, your current weekly mileage and I'm sure he or she will be interested in talking more. More than likely you can and will earn a scholarship either right away or later down the road. Did you run track or cross country in high school? Do you like running with a team/group? I really loved running collegiately and I'm sure I ran a ton faster on BYU's team than I could have alone. I also had access to the trainers (team physical therapist type people) and lots of injury prevention tools like ice bath, ultrasound and stem treatment for injury, sports massage from the trainers, free vitamins and protein bars, ect. BYU also gave us free running shoes (because we were sponsored by Nike), free running clothes, payed for our travel expenses to races, food money on weekend trips, and lots of other cool perks. As you can see there are many benefits for running on a division 1 team. What college do you go to? Feel free to email me privately if you don't want to share information publicly. My email is nankennard@gmail.com

From Glory in the long run on Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 19:01:21 from 67.177.39.243

That magic 800 looks interesting. I second the above opinion that you should run for college, take advantage where you can and go for it, you've got nothing to lose.

From Brooke13 on Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 09:23:07 from 173.48.43.153

Hi, thanks for the encouragement about running in college. I updated my blog, but basically if I ran track I would have to pay for my college education without any assistance (I don't get much encouragement with my running from most people around me).

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