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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
Thu, Jun 21, 2012
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
2.030.000.003.010.005.04

My sleep last night was terrible! I went to bed at 10:30 pm, enough time to get 8.5 hours of sleep. Then I laid there for 2.5 hours and finally feel asleep around 1 am. I have congestion in my chest and a dry cough followed by late night hunger pains. Oiu! What's going to happen on this speed run with my cousin?! Well, we were going to do 0.5 mile repeats after a 1 mile warm up. 0.2 miles into the first repeat, I knew my lungs weren't going to take this. I have 5 tons of rocks taking up shop on my chest. So, mid-repeat I thought it would be smarter to drop to more 400 m repeats. I think my lungs can handle that. We ended up doing 9x400 m repeats with 0.1 mile walking recoveries. I felt nice and worked but not over worked. I didn't pay too much attention to our pace, just went according to how it felt. My paces were: 6:39/6:27/6:37/6:35/6:30/6:12/6:23/6:27/6:53 min/mi. Oh my gosh! One extra repeat, chest congestion, leg soreness from 450 squats Tuesday, and faster than with the coach last week! Awesome!! :) Why is it that when you feel like the run is hard to do you feel like you are no longer fast? Next on agenda, defeat self doubt. :) 

Brooks Pure Flow Purple - FL Miles: 5.04
Night Sleep Time: 6.00Nap Time: 2.00Total Sleep Time: 8.00Weight: 0.00
Comments
From jtshad on Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 08:07:18 from 204.134.132.225

Great run, hope you start feeling better soon.

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