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Location:

Cambridge,MA,United States

Member Since:

Apr 19, 2012

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Marathon Finish

Running Accomplishments:

5k: 20:32 (6:36 min/mi) -4/14/13

8k: 33:28 (6:44 min/mi) - 4/7/13

10k: 44:44 (7:11 min/mi) - 12/15/12

15k: 1:10:17 (7:32 min/mi) - 6/23/12

10 Mile: 1:18:03 (7:48 min/mi) - 5/26/12 

Half Marathon: 1:41:40 (7:45 min/mi) - 7/22/12

Marathon: 3:32:11 (8:05 min/mi) - 1/13/13

Boston 2 Big Sur: 7:36:02 (8:42 min/mi) - 4/21/14, 4/27/14

Number of Marathons: 9

Number of States: 7 (IL, FL, KY, MN, TN, MA, CA)

Short-Term Running Goals:

Sub 20 min 5k

Half marathon PR Summer 2014

NYC Marathon 2014

Long-Term Running Goals:

Join 50 states club

3:25, 3:15, sub 3:00 marathon? The sky's the limit! I want to see how fast I can get! :) 

Personal:

I started running in 2009, and am still learning a lot about running. Right now I have it made, I am living in Cambridge, MA temporarily doing a Post-Doc at MIT and taking advantage of improving my running by learning from all the speedy Boston runners and hitting the hills. I travel to FL to visit my family and get some "heat" training in. Then travel back to Chicago frequently to see my husband and show off my new running legs in all the flat, fast races.
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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Adidas Boost Lifetime Miles: 63.73
Brooks Pure Flow Black - Boston Lifetime Miles: 62.39
Brooks Pure Flow Black - Chicago Lifetime Miles: 35.39
Cortana 2 Black/neon Lifetime Miles: 120.25
Kinvara 4 Yellow Lifetime Miles: 84.36
Saucony Peregrine Lifetime Miles: 58.45
Cortana 3 Lifetime Miles: 88.41
Nike Pegasus 30 Sunset Lifetime Miles: 287.03
Boston Kinvaras Lifetime Miles: 32.75
Nike Pegasus 30 Black/grey Lifetime Miles: 209.17
Nike Pegasus Black Leopard Shield Lifetime Miles: 145.95
Nike Zoom Elite 6 Lifetime Miles: 166.22
Nike Zoom Elite 6 Neon Lifetime Miles: 76.98
Nike Zoom Elite 6 Baby Blue Lifetime Miles: 89.01
Saucony Ride 7 Lifetime Miles: 43.44
Tue, Aug 13, 2013
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
8.400.001.600.000.0010.00

AM: 10 mile fartlek run! I flopped my schedule this week because two girls were running my workouts Tues/Thurs. So today I tried 10x1 min on/off. This was my first "speed" workout since April! We were supposed to do the 1mins at 10k pace. I couldn't keep track of time and pace, so just ran with my friend and watched the time. We averaged 6:40 min/mi! My fastest was 6:23 min/mi. I know it's only one minute, but this felt really, really good. My glute is not hurting as much at faster paces. I'm glad I tested the waters! It was just the right amount of kick, my legs were shaking pretty bad from fatigue on the last interval. Finished up with a mile at recovery pace (9:24), the glute wasn't happy so did one mile at 8:07, then 8:51, then 8:04 to compromise recovery and my glute. :)

Did 45 mins of strengthening and got to add in some new exercises my massage guy recommended for my glute med. :) 

PM: 65 mins waterjogging with my injured friend. We did a short wu, then a ladder workout: 1/2/3/4/5/5/4/3/2/1 mins hard with 1 min recoveries for each, then a short cd. This was nice and hard! Waterjogging intervals is so much fun with a friend.

Cortana 2 White Miles: 10.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Carina on Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 10:18:42 from 204.15.86.83

Great work! I did one minute on/offs today too :)

From allie on Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 15:39:09 from 97.126.222.234

nice job. those on/off workouts are a good place to start when getting back into the speed stuff.

hope the glute is feeling okay now.

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