| 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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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 34.44 | 17.00 | 4.11 | 5.00 | 0.00 | 60.55 |
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| Brooks Pure Flow Purple - FL Miles: 3.00 | Nike Pegasus 29 Red Miles: 14.11 | Nike Flyknit Lunar Pink Miles: 14.94 | Nike Pegasus 29 Blue 2 Miles: 9.50 | Nike Pegasus 29 Black Shield Miles: 18.00 | Nike Pegasus 29 USATF Miles: 1.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 |
| 3 recovery miles on the treadmill. My legs felt surprisingly fresh after yesterday's long run. Stuck to an easy pace, the time flew too fast! 25 mins elliptical and 20 mins bike. |
| Brooks Pure Flow Purple - FL Miles: 3.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 3.89 | 0.00 | 4.11 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| Threshold run on the treadmill at 1% incline. My fiance bought the new PINK flyknit racers for me for Valentine's Day. :) I wanted to try them so bad, but thought I should ease into them first so I stuck to the trusty old Pegasus for this tempo. 2 mile warmup was at 8:57 min/mi pace, then dropped the pace to 7:18 min/mi for 30:00 threshold run. I felt really, really strong on this run, and I had to resist the temptation to drop the pace. Finished up the threshold very happy with my run, hopped off the treadmill to throw on my new flyknits and gave them a whirl for my <2 mile cool down. Man, them suckors are pretty awesome. My cool down pace was a lot faster than normal. I guess that's the whole point of dropping a couple ounces off your shoes! |
| Nike Pegasus 29 Red Miles: 6.11 | Nike Flyknit Lunar Pink Miles: 1.89 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 9.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.50 |
| Midlong run over the Newton Hills. I've discovered I do not know how to run downhill! Haha. No, really, it's challenging to run down fast! I need to work on loading my hammies, so it's great I'm getting in this work! AP: 8:20 min/mi. The path wasn't too snowy/icy, but I will be glad once the snow is all gone. :) Total climb: 371 ft |
| Nike Pegasus 29 Blue 2 Miles: 9.50 |
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| | 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 |
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AM: 4 miles easy recovery on the treadmill at 1% incline, 9:05 min/mi average pace. After running the Newton Hills yesterday, I thought calf sleeves would do a girl some good. I found out 1 mile in, they are not for me. Actually, I need to look at the literature. I understand they increase blood flow to facilitate recovery, but the sleeves felt more like they were inducing compartmental leg syndrome for me. Too bad, they were super cute neon pink too! PM: 4 miles recovery on treadmill with 5x0.1 mile strides. I haven't done strides since before the marathon - it's been over a month!!! They felt really, really weird at first but then felt so amazing. :) |
| Nike Flyknit Lunar Pink Miles: 8.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| Another awesome workout in the books! 10x800m at 5k race pace with 200m recovery. I think the most 800m repeats I ever did in my life was 5, maybe 6. And those were probably more at a 7:30 pace! I had anxiety all day about this run, because the schedule said 6-10 repeats, so I knew it would be tough not to cop out at 6. To make things more difficult, on my walk home from MIT I always pass this cool little wine shop that advertises every Thursday, "wine tasting"!!! No worries, this girl got her priorities straight up, not with a twist. Thank goodness I inherited my Dad's stubborn genes cause I got all 10 repeats in! My splits were: 3:15.1, 3:16.7, 3:19.6, 3:18.6, 3:18.0, 3:19.5, 3:18.1, 3:18.9, 3:18.1, 3:16.4!! Average: 3:17.9. Recoveries were around 1:35 to 1:45. That's an 8k at 6:38 min/mi pace! With my target 8k not being until April, my sub7 AP goal looks more and more realistic. :) |
| Nike Pegasus 29 Red Miles: 8.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 5.05 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.05 |
| Wow, I love recovery runs - they work! After my killer speed workout last night, my legs were super tight. I started at a hard, 9:40 min/mi pace and ended at an easy effort 8:40 min/mi pace! Love. AP: 9:05 min/mi. I was thinking during my run, I pretty much did a harder version of Yasso 800s last night - the full 10 repeats. If my average time per repeat was 3:18 does that really suggest that's my marathon time? Yasso 800s seem to get mixed reviews online. |
| Nike Flyknit Lunar Pink Miles: 5.05 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 2.00 | 17.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 19.00 |
| Umm...I no longer know what my marathon pace is. I have been running a lot of hills on my long runs in Boston. Today I ran in the northern suburbs of Chicago - a "hilly" course by Chicago's standards. My pace dropped quite a bit learning how to run the hills back in Boston, so for a much flatter course I have no idea where I'm at. I started out with a 9:00 pace going with the group about a mile an a half in, I decided to drop my group and go off with some guys running a little faster pace - I thought a friend said one of these guys pumps out consistent 8:20s. Well, turns out I was wrong!! The pace felt fairly comfortable. We talked quite a bit. I didn't pay much attention to my watch. I guess these were the guys running the 7:55 min/mi pace group. Haha. My total AP was: 8:03 min/mi for 18 miles. I think my hill work is working!!! Afterwards, I had to jet downtown for a gait analysis. So ran another mile there at MP (?). I love this girl that does my analysis. She already told me one major thing to work on to change my gait and gave me exercises! Yay! Total elevation gain: 410 ft |
| Nike Pegasus 29 Black Shield Miles: 18.00 | Nike Pegasus 29 USATF Miles: 1.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 34.44 | 17.00 | 4.11 | 5.00 | 0.00 | 60.55 |
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| Brooks Pure Flow Purple - FL Miles: 3.00 | Nike Pegasus 29 Red Miles: 14.11 | Nike Flyknit Lunar Pink Miles: 14.94 | Nike Pegasus 29 Blue 2 Miles: 9.50 | Nike Pegasus 29 Black Shield Miles: 18.00 | Nike Pegasus 29 USATF Miles: 1.00 |
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