| 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 | | 22.50 | 14.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 37.50 |
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| Nike Pegasus 29 Grey Miles: 37.50 |
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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 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 4.00 | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| My first Cambridge run! I didn't move yet, but was in Cambridge scouting out apartments. This was a gorgeous trail. Based on my splits and how I felt after, I believe I was running uphill out and downhill back. My calves were pretty sore after and my quads felt a little burnt up at the end. My splits the second half were much faster than the first but running felt easier. I'm glad I didn't know this from the get go because I would've been obsessing about my bum thigh the entire run. I wasn't trying to run super fast but somehow a 8:06 min/mi average pace felt good! Hey, I'll take a 10 miler BQ pace training run! :) Plus, I'm getting closer and closer to pain-free running! |
| Nike Pegasus 29 Grey Miles: 10.00 |
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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 |
| Weights at the gym and PT on my own in FL. It's tough running fewer days but I'm still recovering and I'm getting faster! |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 7.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
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6 miles @ 8:20 average pace then 10x0.1 mile striders with 0.1 mile walking recovery. Strides felt sooo weird after not doing them since July but my thigh held up pretty well and I settled into a good groove towards the end! 5:58, 5:56, 6:29, 5:29, 5:24, 5:40, 6:09, 5:25, 4:54, 5:02 min/mi paces. My PR for these beore injury was 4:53 and I used to only do max of 5. I got pretty close to that at the end!!
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| Nike Pegasus 29 Grey 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 |
| Bikram and PT - stretching it out and working them glutes! |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 6.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.50 |
| 5 mile recovery run @ 8:53 average pace. Boy, it's tough to hold back! Then 1.5 miles worth of DREADMILL running during my first ever gait analysis. I find the results of this next week. :) I did find out I have perfect cadence though! And, I was told to concentrate on trying to get a higher kick back. |
| Nike Pegasus 29 Grey Miles: 6.50 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 5.00 | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 13.00 |
| Ah, my first long run with marathon pace miles! I was kinda nervous about this and I wore my fuel belt so I wouldn't have to stop during my marathon pace miles and drink from the group's water dropped along the course. Having the fuel belt means more difficulty, plus it was a pretty windy chi morning. My watch is typically off during my runs on this path (through forest preserve) but I guess it was off even more than normal because I was running faster? Anyway, I guess my entire 13 miles ended up being averaged out to marathon pace (8:05). My 8 miles that were supposed to be marathon pace (faster than 8:12) were: 7:54, 7:53, 8:02, 7:53, 8:00, 7:57, 8:00, 7:58. I think these paces are too fast for my marathon in January, but how do I know what pace to run? Ugh, I'm so confused!! I tried to practice that higher kick back that I was told to try from my gait analysis and it actually made it more comfortable to run faster so yea to that! :) |
| Nike Pegasus 29 Grey Miles: 13.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 22.50 | 14.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 37.50 |
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