| 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 | | 26.25 | 10.00 | 4.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 40.25 |
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| Nike Pegasus 29 Grey Miles: 32.00 | Brooks Pure Flow Purple - FL Miles: 1.25 | Nike Pegasus 29 Blue Miles: 4.00 | Nike Pegasus 29 Black Shield Miles: 4.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 0.00 | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| My knee was hurting a little yesterday so I was a little nervous about this run. I was smart (for once) and taped it up just in case. :) My watch wasn't working on this run so I used the MapMyRun app to gauge my speed and distance. I didn't know what pace I was going in the beginning so I just went with what was comfortable. It ended up being 8:00 and sub 8! Wow! I'm so glad my watch wasn't working and just went by feeling. My knee was okay by the end, just minimal pain. I'm starting to get stoked about my paces again!!! :) |
| 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 | | 4.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.25 |
| Crossfit 400 m run, 3x3x3x3x3, 3 rep max overhead press. Max: 55 lbs WOD: 1 min on/1 min off, 6 rounds: 5 knees to elbows 10 overhead press (35 lbs) 20 lateral jumps over bar. Time: 8:58 Wow, the work you can do in under 10 mins with rests! Great interval training for me. My first round of lateral jumps were extremely comical because I was so afraid of reinjuring my knee!! I manned up good though and pounded them out by the end. I love getting back to plyometrics - great power booster training! :) PT just after lunch and found out that was my last session! Apparently I'm not improving fast enough to receive physical training??? What?! Whatever... Stupid insurance. With some intense, last minute brainstorming with my PT we figured out that my knee pain could be due to a pinched femoral nerve!! Great news because the right stretching and massage will heal this up good with no damaged tissue to worry about in the future! PM 4 mile recovery run at 8:54 pace. I tried to run this one SLOOOOOOOW! It's so tough when it feels so good to run so fast. Had quite a bit of knee pain and I'm thinking it's from the different gait at a slow pace. I think it makes sense, if you are running faster you are reaching with your legs, stretching out the muscles and probably releasing the pinching of the femoral nerve. |
| Brooks Pure Flow Purple - FL Miles: 1.25 | Nike Pegasus 29 Blue Miles: 4.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
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Threshold run. 2 mile warmup at 8:30 pace, 4 mile tempo at ??? pace (faster than last weeks 7:41), 2 mile cool down at 8:30 pace. Here's how the tempo went. We were pushed with a pretty significant tailwind 3 miles out, then 1 mile back was into that strong headwind. Hard to compare to last week's run but my splits were: 7:19, 7:11, 7:23, 7:35 - 7:22 AP!! Miles 3 and 4 were in the dark where I couldn't see my footing very well, which may explain the drop in pace. Mile 4 into the headwind was still faster than last week's average pace of 7:41 so I will conclude I'm improving. :)
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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 in morning, weights in evening. |
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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 |
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4 mile recovery 8:56 pace. Gait analysis results!!! My LEFT knee pain is caused by weak RIGHT glute muscles (right hip dip)!!! Yay, I know where to go from here! :)
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| Nike Pegasus 29 Black Shield Miles: 4.00 |
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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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Long run. So I have so many things going on with my pace. I don't know what my marathon race pace will be, I'm wanting it to be faster than 8:12 to BQ, but I have to work on my gait to correct this knee pain. I received the results of my video gait analysis Friday and found out that pain in my left knee is caused by a weak glute med on my right. Basically I'm spring loaded on my right and crashing down on my left. In trying to use my glutes more in my running I noticed during this long run, I have to run faster to feel that activation, but I am trying to run my long runs slow! Ugh, I ultimately decided during my run that I need to focus on correcting my gait and not worry about my pace until I have that down. There's no sense ignoring this knee pain just to hit my slower pace for a long run. I started out kinda sore from deep tissue massage the day before, but after 5 or so miles I finally felt like I was hitting a good form. I was also told to focus on running more like roadrunner (min bounce, push forward) and less like tigger - my vertical displacement is 3" while running. I tried this throughout my run and got frustrated but finally felt it the last mile!! It felt so good and was even easier to run faster. It was a great run to work on form although my time was too fast, oh well at least I didn't feel like I was at threshold. 8:16 average pace. Oh, and it feels great to finally hit 40 miles a week again!! I can't believe this is the mileage I peaked at my first year of running marathons. I feel sore, but even with an injury I feel like I have a lot more to give. I still haven't run a marathon after hitting higher mileage, and to think that from now till January will all be at higher mileage...love this!
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| Nike Pegasus 29 Grey Miles: 14.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 26.25 | 10.00 | 4.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 40.25 |
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| Nike Pegasus 29 Grey Miles: 32.00 | Brooks Pure Flow Purple - FL Miles: 1.25 | Nike Pegasus 29 Blue Miles: 4.00 | Nike Pegasus 29 Black Shield Miles: 4.00 |
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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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