| 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 | | 35.25 | 6.50 | 4.98 | 1.75 | 0.00 | 48.48 |
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| Kinvara 3 Pink Tigers Miles: 19.73 | Brooks Pure Flow Black - Boston Miles: 20.00 | Nike Free Blue/Orange Miles: 1.00 | Brooks Pure Flow Black - Chicago 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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Shamrock Shuffle 8k (4.98 Miles) 00:33:29, Place overall: 852, Place in age division: 29 | | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 4.75 | 0.00 | 4.98 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.73 |
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Ugh!!! I raced my race, my calf held up, I got the time I wanted, but my chip didn't activate at the start line!!!!! Here are the splits the timing company says I ran: Mile 1 8:34 Mile 2 6:38 Mile 3 6:51 5k 6:45 Mile 4 6:52 Finish 6:48 Basically, my chip fired at every pad but the start line, so they assigned me with a start time of day as the time when the elite corral started - I was a quarter of the way back in corral A. I don't know how this could be. Luckily, I ran with a friend exactly side-by-side from the start to the 5k. Her splits were the same as mine with the exception of her first mile being 6:35. Needless to say, I was pretty bummed - a lot of crying was involved. I contacted the timing company, so hopefully they will look into it. I worked so hard for this race and now it's posted for everyone to see this first mile time that is slower than my marathon pace, which is actually my fastest mile. Actually a 1 mile PR for me!! I'm trying to brush it off. My body went through this amazing workout. I pushed my limits today, it will reap the benefits of this and I will continue to run faster. I guess, in the end, if they don't change it my future race times will show the truth. Okay, enough feeling sorry for myself. People, this is a 5 min PR on a 5 mile course in 1 year's time!! How about that hard work and consistency!!
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| Kinvara 3 Pink Tigers Miles: 9.73 |
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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 |
| 20 nice and easy miles at 8:28 min/mi pace, and now time to taper!!! This was pretty tough, but I ran with a friend who also raced yesterday. We made sure we kept the pace slow, which is a huge challenge for us. Hehe. 8:28 min/mi is still pretty impressive after running sub 7s yesterday. :) |
| Brooks Pure Flow Black - Boston Miles: 20.00 |
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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 | | 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 |
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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 | | 1.50 | 6.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
| I think I'm becoming wiser. :) I had planned 2 recovery runs yesterday after my mega workout Sunday-Monday (8k PR race, then 20 miler). My knee started hurting 0.5 mile into my recovery yesterday. Ordinarily I would have toughed it out. This time I shut myself down for the day! Today, no knee pain!! I wanted to run 10 miles through the Newton Hills. But, reassessed my taper schedule for Big Sur. I decided it is too aggressive. The worst case is to go into one of the most challenging marathons overtrained or injured rather than maybe loosing a little fitness. So, I got on the treadmill and did a moderate aerobic progressive run - that way I can shut it down immediately if I have any pain. I started at 8:27 min/mi pace, dropped the pace 0.1 MPH, until the last half mile which was at 7:51 min/mi pace. My knee was pain free!! I finished up with some weights, PT, and core work. I've had this issue with my other knee before, and 2x had to get MRIs, stop running for 1-2 months and go to PT. It has confounded all the people I have worked with. It's on my inner knee and it feels like a band is super tight and sometimes snaps over something. I think it's a result of an imbalance - a super tight adductor in combination with weak/tired glute med and poor glute med firing. What helps is: shutting it down if it's acting up on a run, massaging the attachment of the adductor to the pelvis, and glute med work to wake those puppies up to start firing again. It makes sense my megaworkout would cause this. I think I pushed to the limits and backed off just in time!!! :) |
| Brooks Pure Flow Black - Chicago 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 | | 4.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.75 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| 2 mile warm up on the treadmill at 1% incline while making up my speed workout for the run. I really wanted to see what 5k pace would feel like so I decided on and ran 0.5 mile at 6:31 min/mi pace, 3x0.25 miles at 6:00 min/mi pace, 0.5 mile at 6:31 min/mi pace. The workout felt great and mixing in the faster repeats definitely taught me to be patient with the 5k pace. Cooled down at 8:29 min/mi pace. |
| Kinvara 3 Pink Tigers Miles: 6.00 |
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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 |
| 4 mile easy run with 3x0.1 mile strides, 5:23, 5:47, 5:26 min/mi pace. |
| Kinvara 3 Pink Tigers 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 | | 35.25 | 6.50 | 4.98 | 1.75 | 0.00 | 48.48 |
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| Kinvara 3 Pink Tigers Miles: 19.73 | Brooks Pure Flow Black - Boston Miles: 20.00 | Nike Free Blue/Orange Miles: 1.00 | Brooks Pure Flow Black - Chicago 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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