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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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Asics 1130 Lifetime Miles: 151.90
Asics 1140 Lifetime Miles: 211.50
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Another binge at breakfast.. that stupid cereal gets me every time and I know how awful I will feel afterwords. I have changed my goal.. now three days without a binge and I can treat myself... just gotta make it through Friday now!!!!

Great swimming workout today:

Warm up (repeat 2 times)

2 x 100yd Freestyle Swim (kick every 4th 25yd), rest 0:20 / 100yd
1 x 100yd Backstroke Swim (Kick every 4th 25yd), rest 0:20 / 100yd

Build up (repeat 2 times)

1 x 100yd Zipper, rest 0:15 / 100yd
2 x 100yd Freestyle Push & Glide, rest 0:15 / 100yd
4 x 50yd Breaststroke DPS, rest 0:10 / 50yd

Core (repeat 4 times)

5 x 100yd Freestyle Swim, target time 01:46 / 100yd, rest 0:20 / 100yd
Rest 0:30 seconds

Warm down

1 x 100yd Freestyle Push & Glide, rest 0:15 / 100yd
1 x 100yd Freestyle Easy, rest 0:20 / 100yd

Then I did some injury prevention resistance training.. I always feel much better and stronger when I have been keeping up

 

A Track workout in the evening finished off my day: Warm up 20 min jogging (2.5 miles)  

distance: 1000, 600, 400, 400, 1000, 600, 400, 400, "magic 800"

Times:  3:31, 2:05, 1:19, 1:18, 3:35, 2:06, 1:19, 1:15, magic 800 means stride corners and sprint straights instead of running at 1 constant pace

13 min cool down jog

I also did a time trial for my 400 and 100 after the workout... keep in mind this is probably very inaccurate because I was timing myself with a watch and it was done after a very long day... but my 100 was 13.12 seconds and my 400 was 1:10. Sasha advised me to try to get these times for distances to see if I could run a 5 min mile, which is one of my goals... we will see what he says :)

Also new pair of shoes! I got a pair of an older model of asics at a GREAT price, so couldn't say no. Its probably better to have more than one pair of sneakers when running alot (lol)

Night Sleep Time: 9.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 9.00Weight: 0.00Calories: 0.00
Comments
From Sasha Pachev on Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 23:23:50 from 192.168.1.1

13.1 in 100 is very good. Especially tired. Shows you might have world-class potential in longer distances. 70 second quarter is not bad, especially after that workout. You are probably capable of sub-60, but with the lack of aerobic conditioning and that workout on top of it 70 was all you could do. You could do sub-5:00 mile after some specific training or possibly by just building the aerobic base.

The key to improvement is solid aerobic base. Something like this to build it. 7 miles a day easy pace 5 days a week, on the 6th go 10-12 before your day of rest. Easy pace and occasional strides and pickups when bored. After about 3 weeks if everything is good, no injuries, no fatigue, then make it 8 on regular days, and 12-14 for your long run. Repeat every 3 weeks until you get to 70 miles a week then hold it there for 6 months or so.

Do not worry about eating too much as long as it is high quality food. In fact, eat as much as you can. You will need all of those nutrients to rebuild your body after your runs.

From YoungLion on Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 23:52:27 from 75.31.200.123

Thanks for the welcome. All the best with your goal for the Boston.

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