| 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 | | 33.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 33.00 |
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| Saucony Cortana 2 Miles: 43.00 |
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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 |
| Changed the settings on my watch to only show distance and % max hr (Thanks, April!), then target an 8 mile run along the emerald necklace at Pfitzinger aerobic pace (70-81% max hr), which I think ended up being 75% max hr...right on the money. This was my first run along the emerald necklace and I ended up at Jamaica Pond where I searched for the ghost of Bill Rodgers to infuse me with his unbelievable talents...Then took a few pics and ran home. |
| Saucony Cortana 2 Miles: 8.00 |
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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 miles outside with 3x0.1 mile strides maintained recovery hr before the strides, 74% max hr. I had to peak at my stride paces after (I changed the settings on my watch to only show distance and % max hr). Paces were: 6:39, 5:23, 5:33 min/mi. I was relaxed on these and typically don't run strides sub 6. This is my 2nd time doing strides and my foot felt much better than last week as far as feeling "normal" hitting the ground. Then headed to Hopkinton for my 1 hour of fly time on the Alterg. I'm up to 60% body weight at 10 MPH. Besides everyone's tremendous support on the blog, which truly means more than you know. I have been getting mucho inspiration and peace of running mind from Bill Rodger's new book "Marathon Man". This quote from his book pretty much makes me cry when I read it because it means so much to me - it's my string of hope: "You train and train, and sometimes you don't feel like you're making any progress, and then suddenly you do. You rest a little and suddenly, whoa, you're up at another level. The body always responds, but sometimes it takes a while. It takes you by surprise." |
| Saucony Cortana 2 Miles: 9.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 7.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
| 7 lovely, hot and humid miles with my Cambridge running group girls!! The miles flew by and although they may be slower, they are aerobically a breeze. :) Returned completely drenched, changed up the wardrobe then hit some weights. A running friend told me I should be able to do 200 lbs on the leg press. I tried it out, he is wrong! I can only do 160 lbs max (8 reps), but I love challenges so why not work up to 200 lbs? :) Did some Kara-Shalane planks on the ball exercises for the first time. They are challenging and I love them! 45 mins totalish with weights, PT and foam rolling. |
| Saucony Cortana 2 Miles: 7.00 |
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| 1 h on the AlterG at 10 MPH and 65ish% body weight. |
| Saucony Cortana 2 Miles: 5.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 14.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 14.00 |
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14 miles in the bag. My half is coming up next weekend so decided to stick to no faster than 8:30s (if they felt comfortable) prior to the long run. Ran with my Chi buddy again, averaged 8:23 min/mi pace. We tried to hold back! Not sure why my long run pace was so much slower for 12 miles last week. I guess it's just a matter of a good and bad week. Hopefully I conserved enough for the half next weekend. At this point I'm planning to hold back from the start. 14 miles felt like 20 miles in my hips! I'm pretty happy with hitting 33 miles this week after just completing 4 weeks of running, and that's not including the 20 miles per week of alterg running! Confession: I cried during this run. My foot has constantly been feeling tweaky. Not the bone, and the tweakiness seems to move around. It never really hurts running. I actually emailed my ortho about it. Then I noticed around mile 9 I had not been paying attention to my foot and I was just feeling the run. I started to finally get that feeling I used to have of just enjoying the push. So amazing. :)
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| Saucony Cortana 2 Miles: 14.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 33.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 33.00 |
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| Saucony Cortana 2 Miles: 43.00 |
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