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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, Apr 09, 2013

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Crosstraining miles	Total Miles
0.75	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.75

Was going to do a 4 mile easy recovery run. I felt super, super sore in my glutes but thought the run would loosen things up. They started to loosen, but then my right knee started locking up and became painful. I stopped right away. This is the same injury I had in my left knee 2 times and had to stop running for 1-2 months. Hopefully I will recover in time for Big Sur, but now the trick is to do enough to maintain fitness but not too much to aggrevate my knee. I'm thinking I should nix my 10 miler through the Newton Hills tomorrow. :(

Nike Free Blue/Orange Miles: 1.00

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

Comments

From Rachelle on Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 09:29:43 from 159.212.71.17

What part of the knee is it? Do you think it is related to the IT band? Hang in there and maybe look into some deep tissue sports massage. That is the one thing that really seemed to help me when I injured my IT band (the pain was in the knee) over the fall.

From Jackie82 on Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 10:30:07 from 18.189.34.126

Thanks, Rachelle!! It was the inner knee. It's like a band is too tight. The location makes it seem like it's the MCL, but when I had problems in the past luckily the MRI showed my MCL is fine. I think it's too tight of an adductor in combination with poor glute med firing from fatigue. I'm glad I shut it down completely for the rest of the day yesterday. I feel completely better now! It just freaks me out because sometimes it will be tight just for one day then other times for 2 months! I think I'm figuring it out now though. :)

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