| 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 | | 39.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 42.00 |
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| Cortana 2 White Miles: 14.00 | Cortana 2 Black/neon Miles: 28.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 7.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| AM: 10 miles in Chi town. Feeling pretty good after my runs in CO. I decided to turn my 10 mile aerobic run into an aerobic run with some McMillian steady state paces. Started out easy pace and dropped the pace each mile, then the SS paces were: 7:42, 7:38, 7:38 and cooled down for 2 more miles. I went in planning on targeting 7:45s for my steady state, but these paces just felt good. :) Finished up with a crossfit mini WOD: 10 rounds of 10 airsquats, 10 pushups, 10 sit-ups, then did some more strength, core, and PT exercises. PM: Flywheel spin class!!! I know this is a lot in one day, but I'm justifying it because I'm trying to change my workouts to better distinguish easy/hard days. Also, I can't do this spin class in Boston and I absolutely love it. I went in toning it down, but with a third of the class left I caught up to the girl in second place. Dangit, I had to push it and beat her by 1 power unit. I'm not so sure she was as happy about that as I was! :) |
| Cortana 2 White Miles: 10.00 |
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| | 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 miles recovery following my hr. Normally this would be 9:15 min/mi ap, but to keep my hr just below 76% max, I had to keep it closer to 8:45s. :) Finished up with 1 hour waterjogging intervals at the Harvard pool with an injured runner. She wanted to hear my story of recovering because she is missing some big weeks of training leading up to the Chicago marathon. She said I really motivated her! That feels really good. |
| Cortana 2 Black/neon Miles: 5.00 |
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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 |
| 8 miles running with the Cambridge running club girls. 8:20s felt hard at first but then felt easy towards the end. It was so nice to have company! Immediately after the run, hopped on the bike for 20 mins and finished some weights and PT. Not as much as Monday because my glute med is acting up! I'm pretty sure this is the repercussions of the long trail run on Saturday. It's the same feeling I had after running in the snow post-Nemo, so although it's frustrating to hurt, it's comforting to know the reason. |
| Cortana 2 Black/neon Miles: 8.00 |
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| | 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: bikram. My glute med is definitely angry. Hoping it will simmer soon! PM: got some nice deep tissue work and a semi-analysis of my walking gait. My arches are super rigid which could have been the cause of my stress fracture since my feet won't roll in slightly. Massage guy also gave me some better glute med strengthing exercises besides bandwalks and clams. I guess those work your muscle contracted, so he gave me additional exercises that work the glute med elongated in multiple planes. I'll add that to my toolbox! |
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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 easy miles. I decided to throw in 5x0.1 mile strides since I haven't been doing them like the schedule says to do. I have no idea what my paces were because I forgot to look at my watch. I will say, I can see big improvements because I actually ran some of these on the CEMENT sidewalk!!! Definitely no longer jarring to do these. :) Immediately hopped on the bike, dropped the resistance to keep a faster cadence and biked for 1 hour. Got caught up on Big Brother before work while keeping max hr around 67% max. Zone 2! |
| Cortana 2 White Miles: 4.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 15.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 15.00 |
| 15 mile long run in Cambridge with the CRC girls. My right glute has been getting very angry with me, it has been a challenge to even walk. I was very worried about this run, but the girls were running slower than I expected and I seemed to be able to run a little faster than I thought I could with the pain. The pain subsided a bit during the run so I figured it was okay to finished. AP was 8:39 min/mi, not so exciting but my longest run since injury. My last two miles I ran alone and hit 8:17 and 8:10 not paying attention to my pace. Ha. Treated my body to an ice bath, which seemed to have calmed a lot of the pain in my glute down. |
| Cortana 2 Black/neon Miles: 15.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 39.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 42.00 |
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| Cortana 2 White Miles: 14.00 | Cortana 2 Black/neon Miles: 28.00 |
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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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