| 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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| 30 mins weights on vacay just to get the day started off on the right foot. :) |
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| 1.25 h speed bike. 20 mins wu at 60-65% max hr, then 10x2mins @ 80-90% max hr with 2 mins recoveries, then cool down ~ 10 mins. These were harder than last week's speed bike (6x4 mins w 4 min recoveries). Could be from the shorter recoveries, could be from one sore right quad after dancing all night in my boot - either way, a great workout and very proud of myself for squeezing it in at night after a long travel day. :) |
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AM: 50 mins weights. 4 blocks of 3 sets of 3 exercises: weights, core, and PT. I measured my calves today. Last week people noticed my right was visually a lot smaller than my left. They measured the same today...score! PM: 100 mins waterjogging. 20 min wu, then 6x5min hard with 5 min recoveries, 20 min cd. |
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AM: 2.25 h steady bike. 15 min wu @ 60-65% max hr, then 4x15min @ 85% max hr with 15 min recoveries. It was one of those days where you wake up at 4:30am, you feel dead, think about pushing the workout to another day when you feel fresh, start the workout, have a hard time getting your hr up, then...bam! Things fall into place and you have a good, hard workout in the zone!! I finished strong, awake, and ready to start the day! It helped to get a text message from a friend saying this: "This is you!": 
I have to admit, I've been feeling kinda bummy about training. I'm putting in a ton of time and hard work to crosstrain, but it's all blind. I have no idea my pace/speed or if I'm improving/losing fitness. It's making me crazy. I have a hard workout like today, feel so proud, then an hr later feel so inadequate. It's mind games, I know. I just have to cage this and keep the faith. Thank you, my friend, I sooooo needed this text!!! PM: 78 min waterjogging; 20 min wu, 2x[9x1:30 mins hard, 30 sec recoveries], 2 mins easy between sets, 20 min cd. There was hardly anyone in the pool, which meant minimal water slapping my face. :) I can't believe I worked up to 2x9 sets of these!!! I started at 2x5 4 weeks ago, and I can tell I have improved. Yay!
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AM: 50 mins weights. 4 sets of 3 exercises with 3 reps each: core, stability, PT finished with 3x1:30 planks then 3x20 abmat sit-ups to make them abs buuuuurrrn!!! Officially done with the boot as of today!!! Dr. says I am healing nicely, and no pain when he pushed on my bone...hard!!! I asked him about racing a half mid-July, he said normally people give up on working out and have to build back cardio. I laughed and told him I'm training more hours per week doing bike and waterjogging than I did running 70 miles per week. He says then I just need to focus on rebuilding my bone. I guess all that hard work does pay off (besides keeping me temporarily sane)!! PM: 65 mins waterjogging. 20 min wu, 4x[3 mins hard, 1 min easy, 1 min hard, 1 min easy], 20 min cd. This felt hard but short. I'm definitely ready for a rest day now!
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| Today is rest day, so my workout was to sleep over 9.5 h last night. :) |
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| 4h long bike. Last week 4h long bike was at 72% max hr, this week 4h long bike was 76% max hr! I checked in the Pfitzinger book after, I averaged target heart rate for long run pace for marathon training...for 4h!!!! Nice. |
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