[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

Sun, May 19, 2013

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

93 mins waterjogging. 20 min wu, then 8x5 min hard with 1 min recovery, then 5x45 sec hard with 15 sec recovery, then 20 min cd.

This was nice and hard! I was getting my HR up to 132 - 156 bpm (73 - 87% max HR) roughly for the 5 min intervals, and the 45 sec were 156 - 180 bpm (87 - 100% max HR), roughly. This is crazy considering they say your HR in water is 10 bpm lower than on land. Maybe I'm an exception?

On a heavier note, my Chicago training partner ran her marathon today. Her goal was to finally get her BQ. She ran Chicago last fall injured and unexpectedly missed qualifying by 24 sec!! She has gotten even faster and has been injury free, so there was no doubt in my mind she was def going to BQ today. I was expecting a 325/330 from her. Well, with such a cold winter/spring, she unfortunately had a really hot and humid race. She was on pace (7:55 min/mi) up through mile 18 then stopped sweating and started getting chills. She was puking by 20, and walked it in just to collapse at 26.0 then again after crossing the finish in 3:59. Thankfully she is physically okay, but my heart breaks for her. It just goes to show you that you can do everything right, but a good race is definitely luck of the day and the weather. We wanted to run Boston together so bad!! Ugh, this makes my heart so heavy and there's nothing I can do. :(

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Comments

From Lily on Mon, May 20, 2013 at 10:10:22 from 67.199.178.95

Sorry for your friend. But she finished. Which is always something to be proud of right?

You are still hanging tough!

From Jackie82 on Mon, May 20, 2013 at 10:21:00 from 18.189.56.67

Yes, she should def be proud to finish. I'm proud of her for sticking it through. I hate seeing a friend go through this. We are trying to come up with a Plan B, which may involve running Grandma's. Who knows what the weather will be like...

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