[S]he Conquers Who Endures

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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

Wed, Feb 27, 2013

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Crosstraining miles	Total Miles
8.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	8.00

AM: 4 mile recovery run on the treadmill. WU for 1 mile at 8:41 min/mi 1% incline, then dropped to 9:05 min/mi pace and increased the incline 0.5% up to 3.5%. Last half mile dropped to no incline and had to drop to 8:27 min/mi pace and focus on not running into the handle bar - I think that was the biggest challenge of the entire run. I never tried playing with the incline for a recovery run. I absolutely loved it. The effort was light, so I think it's okay to do. 3.5% incline did speed up my breathing, but just a tad. :)

Elevation gain: 383 ft

PM: 4 miles on treadmill @1% easy run at 8:49 min/mi pace with 5x0.1 mile strides at 6:00 min/mi. So I bought a gajillion running shoes lately because I've been training in all the same shoe, then read that rotating through all different kinds of shoes helps prevent overuse injury. I believe what I read especially after this run. Wow, these Energy Boosts are a lot of fun! They feel like moon shoes, definitely a different feel to my legs than my other shoes. Different shoes shake things up and make the runs feel more interesting too. Okay, that's my two sense. Nice run. :)

Nike Flyknit Lunar Pink Miles: 4.00	Adidas Boost Miles: 4.00

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

Comments

From Rachelle on Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 09:51:19 from 199.190.170.28

Awesome! I really like to add incline for recovery runs on the treadmill. Still running easy but keeping it interesting. :)

From Jackie82 on Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 09:59:16 from 18.189.73.167

Actually, I "stole" the idea from your blog!! Haha. Thank you, ma'am!

From Carina on Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 11:09:48 from 204.15.86.83

Maybe I'll give that a go, I have an aversion to incline, but I haven't done much of it!

From Scott Wesemann on Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 12:15:35 from 66.232.64.4

There is a short and steep peak round here that I love to hike for recovery. It is a great way to get your HR up and wok out some of the soreness in your legs. I guess it works on the TM too. :)

From Jackie82 on Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 13:01:26 from 18.189.73.167

Carina, I did too. Try it, you'll get hooked. It's super trippy at the end when you go down to flat. You pretty much just float.

Scott, you are spoiled with your ability to hit the peak! I will just have to tape some scenic pics on the tm. :)

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