| 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 | | 44.74 | 0.00 | 6.00 | 3.26 | 0.00 | 54.00 |
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| Nike Free Blue/Orange Miles: 5.00 | Brooks Pure Flow Black - Boston Miles: 14.00 | Kinvara 3 Pink Tigers Miles: 15.00 | Nike Free 7.0 White Miles: 4.00 | Brooks Pure Flow Purple - FL Miles: 16.00 |
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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 | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| 5 mile recovery run along the St Charles River. I tried to keep this one super slow. After my long run yesterday, my calves are so tight I can hardly walk! The recovery run did me good. :) 9:15 min/mi AP. |
| 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 | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
| Another easy run day. 4 miles at 9:16 min/mi pace. I normally do threshold runs on Monday, and was supposed to do a 40 min threshold run today. It was going to be my last big threshold before the 8k on April 7. However, my calves are still so tight from Saturday they still hurt to walk. I really need one last good threshold so I rearranged my runs. I'm really, really hoping for a rapid recovery so I can get in my threshold either tomorrow or Wednesday. I'm stretching, icing, using compression and a massager, but getting really nervous. Ahhh!!! On the bright side, my hamstrings and glutes haven't felt this good in a really, really long time. These 4mm drop shoes require some adaption from my calves but are really relieving my hammies. |
| Brooks Pure Flow Black - Boston Miles: 4.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 2.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| I needed one last awesome threshold run before my 8k April 7, and I made sure I got it!!! I held off running to the evening to give my calves those few extra hours to recover (still) from Saturday. During the wu, I was first happy with how they felt, by the end of the warmup I was like oh no this ain't gonna be good cause my calves were feeling weak. I was targeting a 40:00 threshold at 7:55 min/mi pace. I started feeling pretty good around the 1.5 mile mark and thought seriously about increasing the pace, but held off. 30 mins is a lot of time left. Normally 40:00 threshold would be just under 5.85 miles. I decided once I hit mile 4 I'd increase my pace at mile 5. So, I dropped it to 7:49 min/mi pace, held that until mile 5.5, then dropped to 7:44 min/mi pace and decided to run LONGER to hit 6 miles. I felt like I could have gone longer, but didn't want to reveal my race legs until race day. :) I'm so happy about this run. I hit this pace 2 weeks ago and it was HARD back then! It felt so much easier today even though my calves were only 80%. I am noticing virtually no more soreness in my hamstrings, which I've had since October. I didn't realize it was due to overstriding. Now that I'm correcting that, I'm excited to see the paces I'll hit with healthy hamstrings once my calves adapt! |
| Kinvara 3 Pink Tigers Miles: 8.00 |
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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 | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| Big Sur simulation run on the treadmill. :) 2 mile wu @ 1% incline, 9:05 min/mi pace 2 mile @ 5% incline, 9:05 min/mi pace 1 mile @ 0% incline, 7:41 min/mi pace 0.25 mi @ 3.5% incline, 8:00 min/mi pace 0.25 mi @ 0% incline, 7:41 min/mi pace 0.5 mi @ 3.5% incline, 8:00 min/mi pace 0.5 mi @ 0% incline, 7:41 min/mi pace 0.5 mi @ 3.5% incline, 8:00 min/mi pace 0.5 mi @ 0% incline, 7:41 min/mi pace 1 mile cd @ 1% incline, 8:27 min/mi pace 5x0.1 mile strides @ 1% incline, 6:00 min/mi pace with 0.1 mile recoveries Haha, this was a lot of fun! I just kind of made it up during my wu. Big Sur has a 5% climb over 2 miles around mile 10 of the marathon followed by (debatably) 13 smaller hills. I figured I'd find out now what those smaller hills would feel like. Not too shabby. :) |
| Brooks Pure Flow Black - Boston 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 | | 3.74 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.26 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
| Track workout on treadmill...so treadmill workout with my cheat sheet. :) Kept everything at 1% incline: 1.1 mile wu 4x400m @ 6:00 min/mi pace, 200m recoveries 2x1000m @ 6:15 min/mi pace, 500m recoveries 4x400m @ 6:00 min/mi pace, 200m recoveries 1 mile cd This felt comfortably hard. Going from 400s to 1000s helped me learn to calm it down and be patient, switching back from 1000s to 400s made the last 4x400s super "easy". Finished up with some stretching, core, pt, strength, and foam rolling the calves. |
| Kinvara 3 Pink Tigers Miles: 7.00 |
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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 | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
| Easy run in FL. Tried to keep it around 9:30 min/mi pace while I soaked in the sunshine. :) |
| Nike Free 7.0 White Miles: 4.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 16.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 16.00 |
| 16 mile long run in FL. Ringling Bridge repeats. I tried to slow this one down since I think my last 5-6 long runs have been a little on the too fast side. Apparently my slowish long run pace with hills is 8:12 min/mi pace. Scary... :) |
| Brooks Pure Flow Purple - FL Miles: 16.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 44.74 | 0.00 | 6.00 | 3.26 | 0.00 | 54.00 |
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| Nike Free Blue/Orange Miles: 5.00 | Brooks Pure Flow Black - Boston Miles: 14.00 | Kinvara 3 Pink Tigers Miles: 15.00 | Nike Free 7.0 White Miles: 4.00 | Brooks Pure Flow Purple - FL Miles: 16.00 |
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