| 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. |
|
Ukraine Can Win With Crowdfunded Drones!
Click to Donate
|
|
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 1.78 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.78 |
|
| Saucony Cortana 2 Miles: 1.78 |
|
| 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 | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 1 h elliptical ladder workout. This is my first hard effort on the elliptical! The workout was: 17 min wu @ 60% max hr, then 1 min hard/1 min easy, 2h/1e, 3h/1e, 4h/1e, 3h/1e, 2h/1e, 1h/1e, then 20 min cd. I was able to stay up in 90-97% max hr for the hard efforts by raising the resistance to level 15 and maintaining 85-90 rpm. I haven't had my hr up so high in so long and I did realize you could do that on the elliptical!! So happy. |
| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
| | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
|
AM: 2 back-to-back Flywheel classes to take the place of my speed bike workout. Oh my gosh, this was so awesome. I have a little IT band tightness and leg soreness from the elliptical (which I am loving bc I think that means I'm building back closer to running muscles). I wasn't targeting for 1st place on the torque board (shows everyones' total power output), but halfway through the class I managed to go from 3rd or 4th, to 2nd place and only 1 power unit behind 1st. Naturally, I push it at the end and come out finishing the class in 1st place by 5 points! Holla! I wore my Garmin to track my hr. Shoot, my training effect is already 4.9 by the end of the 1st class! (4.0 means highly improving, 5.0 means overreaching). Took the 2nd class a little easier. Class 1 total power: 281 Class 2 total power: 274 Pretty surprised the total power was so similar when I thought I was sandbagging the 2nd class. I am now counting down the mins until I get to test out the AlterG for the first time!! PM: 1st running session on AlterG! 30 mins at 30% body weight. 2 min walk (4 MPH)/3 min run (7, 8, 9, 10, 10, 10.2 MPH). It was really weird to get going. I could definitely tell I needed to neural reprogramming to increase my cadence after all that water jogging! It's just like riding a bike I guess because by the end of the session it felt "normal" to run at a faster leg turnover.
|
| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
| | Comments(1) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 1 h on the elliptical, easy, maintained 68% max hr. I don't know why my feet always go numb! I made it about 12 mins until they were numb. I wanted to do 90 mins, but the numbness was scaring me so I cut the workout at 60 mins so I could do a 2 mile walk instead. 2 mile walk on tm at 1.5% incline. 3.5 MPH for the first 0.5 miles, then finished with 4.0 MPH. Man, my foot muscles were sore at the end! I'm glad I made that decision, I think it was more therapeutic to get the walk in. |
| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
| | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 2.25 h steady bike. 15 min wu at 60% max hr, then 4x15 mins at 80-85% max hr with 15 min recoveries. My legs are so fried! I'm behind on sleep too, I think I will benefit from sleep more than a second workout today. Why do I feel like a slacker if I skip my pm workout?! |
| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
| | Comments(2) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 1.78 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.78 |
|
Happy Back to Run Day to Me!! Well, run/walk, but running was involved nonetheless...on real ground! 3 min walk/2 min run x6 paces for runs were: 7:41/6:58/6:44/6:56/6:49/6:29 min/mi!!! Honestly, it did not feel like I was going that fast. At first I felt like someone was pulling me down with rubberbands. The last interval felt like I was running slower, it really felt like 8s. I'm very, very surprised by this. Yea, they were only 2 min intervals, but the perceived effort was telling me I was going a different pace. Also, 0 pain!!! I think the soft tissue felt better to run than walk. Ha. Drove to Hopkinton for 1 h on the AlterG. 1 min walk @ 4MPH, 4 min run @ 10 MPH x12 @ 30% body weight. I wisened up and wore padded bike shorts for this one! Boy did they help a lot! The PT was really awesome and set up a camera and monitor for me to watch and correct my gait. Naturally I didn't realize I was guarding so much, I'm so thankful he showed me!! I'll get that fixed in a jiffy. So, 0 foot pain the entire workout, hamstring soreness from land running (more in right), and inner thigh soreness from AlterG. Not too shabby. I'm getting running legs back! PM: 1h weights. 4 rounds of 3 exercises with 3 sets each. Finished with 6 min plank/side plank (no rest) and 3x30 abmat situps to burn up my abs.
|
| Saucony Cortana 2 Miles: 1.78 |
|
| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
| | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| A much needed rest day. I woke up with the tightest calves! My hammies were also pretty tight all day. I sure hope my massage later will flush things out. I'm schedule for my second run tomorrow and I can hardly walk! |
| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
| | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| I was supposed to run/walk today, but decided to switch workout days with Sunday since my calves and hamstrings were still so sore I could hardly walk. Instead I did a 4h bike ride at 74% max hr. |
| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
| | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 1.78 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.78 |
|
| Saucony Cortana 2 Miles: 1.78 |
|
| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 | |
|
|
| Debt Reduction Calculator |
|
New Kids on the Blog
(need a welcome):
Lone Faithfuls
(need a comment):
|