| 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 | | 47.02 | 8.00 | 4.25 | 3.73 | 0.00 | 63.00 |
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| Nike Pegasus 29 Black Shield Miles: 3.00 | Nike Pegasus 29 Red Miles: 15.42 | Nike Free Blue/Orange Miles: 6.58 | Nike Pegasus 29 Blue 2 Miles: 30.00 | Nike Flyknit Lunar Pink Miles: 4.00 | Adidas Boost Miles: 4.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 | |
| | 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 mile recovery at 8:57 min/mi pace. Practiced my new gait (slight forward lean, landing under body). It took some pressure off my hamstrings and made me a little faster. It was an absolutely gorgeous day out! |
| Nike Pegasus 29 Black Shield Miles: 3.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 4.75 | 0.00 | 4.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.00 |
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2 mile warmup, then threshold run on the treadmill at 1% incline. 4x7:30 at 7:03 min/mi pace with 2:30 recovery at 8:49 min/mi pace. Confidence builder!! I thought this would feel harder since I am trying to pick up the pace of my tempos. I'm trying to hit sub 7 AP in an 8k in early April. Plus, it's time to overcome my fear of sub7 training paces. I want to keep improving! Hopped off the treadmill to switch into my new Nike Frees for my cool down. I don't think I'm digging the Lunar Flyknit and I can still return them. I ran in Nike Frees back in the day before I ran marathons and really, really loved them. I think they may be a great racing shoe for the 8k. I tried to work on my gait mod during the run. I think this mod is going to help tremendously, it was difficult towards the end to maintain the slight forward lean but it really helped to take the pressure off my hamstrings. I felt really great at the end of this run. Yay!
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| Nike Pegasus 29 Red Miles: 7.42 | Nike Free Blue/Orange Miles: 1.58 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 2.00 | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
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10 miles out and back over Newton Hills. Last week the same route was 8:21 min/mi AP this week 7:51 min/mi AP!!! Needless to say, my hamstrings are feeling a lot better with this gait mod. :) I can't believe how well I nailed this run! 2 mile wu, then 8 miles at 7:39 min/mi pace including falling on the ice, haha, woa baby! Mile 8 was 7:13 and included a 60 ft climb! My body just felt like it was in sync. The mile that ended at the top of HH was 7:45. I'm a baller. :) I'm thinking now it's time to tackle an out and back of the beginning of the course in Hopkinton. :) Finished with hamstring, glute med, arms, stability and core work. Whipped up a large batch of green smoothie with the new Vitamix, that junk is smooth! Total elevation gain: 368 ft
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| Nike Pegasus 29 Blue 2 Miles: 10.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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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 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. :)
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| Nike Flyknit Lunar Pink Miles: 4.00 | Adidas Boost Miles: 4.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 4.27 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.73 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| Track workout! 1.5 mile warmup, I tried out some drills with the girls, then 2x3km at 10k race pace with 80% of the interval time recovery, then cool down. Like all track workouts, I was scared of this one. Haha. I just went with the girls, and actually felt really, really good the first interval. Everyone around me was huffing and puffing, I was breathing nice in steady. For the second interval, I started behind the first girl and took the outside of the inside lane. I hate feeling like I'm hitting the feet of the person in front of me, besides, that means I really did more than 3km my second round. :P My times were: 12:44.4, 12:42.5. For an AP of 6:49 min/mi! This was a huge confidence booster for me. The long repeats at what I would love to be my 8k pace are there, while I'm feeling steady and strong! |
| 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 | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| 5 easy miles to loosen up the ole legs, 8:59 min/mi AP. I ended feeling loosey goosey and stoked about last night's workout. :) |
| Nike Free Blue/Orange Miles: 5.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 20.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 20.00 |
| Long run in FL. It is so nice to be able to finally get a run in with zero worry of ice on my route!! I wanted to continue my "hilly" long run routine, in FL this can be somewhat challenging. I mapped out a route that consisted of one relatively flat mile followed by one mile of the Ringling Bridge - a 65 ft climb over half a mile. I ran this out and back back and forth until I reached 20 miles! To make matters more interesting, there was a consistently strong wind. Regardless, I PRed for this 20 miler training run! I wasn't planning on hitting the paces I reached - 7:51 min/mi AP. My pace kept getting faster and faster throughout the run, my last 5 miles were in: 7:40, 7:33, 7:38, 7:46, and 7:24. My performance is drastically improving again. Consistent, hard work surely pays off! Estimated total elevation gain: 700+ ft |
| Nike Pegasus 29 Blue 2 Miles: 20.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 47.02 | 8.00 | 4.25 | 3.73 | 0.00 | 63.00 |
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| Nike Pegasus 29 Black Shield Miles: 3.00 | Nike Pegasus 29 Red Miles: 15.42 | Nike Free Blue/Orange Miles: 6.58 | Nike Pegasus 29 Blue 2 Miles: 30.00 | Nike Flyknit Lunar Pink Miles: 4.00 | Adidas Boost Miles: 4.00 |
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