| 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 | | 33.29 | 11.06 | 5.00 | 0.90 | 0.00 | 50.25 |
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| Nike Pegasus 29 Grey Miles: 39.09 | Nike Pegasus 29 USATF Miles: 11.16 |
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| 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 | 11.06 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 11.06 |
| 11 mile steady state run. 7:47 min/mi average pace!! I was worried, I'm not getting nearly as much sleep since I'm working now and it seems like I just have to throw in my runs when ever I get a chance. My glutes are achy where my hamstring attaches to whatever they attach to up near where your glutes attach. I blame this on not getting a proper deep tissue massage since I moved (2 weeks now). It did feel like that tightness worked itself out during the run, but towards the end and afterward it came back a bit. I can't believe I ran so well! :) |
| Nike Pegasus 29 Grey Miles: 11.06 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 4.16 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.16 |
| Recovery run 9:00 min/mi pace. Weights at home: bis, shoulders, chest, step ups, lateral band walks, crunches and bicycles. I'm thinking of nixing cross fit. I have less time and when I dialed back cross fit, I got faster. This is becoming a realization on my stubborn self that the specificity of training is a real entity. I'll do more running specific weights on my own and put more efforts into running faster. I'm still building my mileage anyway so I'm going to have less gas for cross fit anyway. Pardon the 200 different Nike Pegasus 29 I have, I am trying to have shoes in FL and IL as well as MA so when I visit people my shoes are already there. :) |
| Nike Pegasus 29 USATF Miles: 4.16 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 5.03 | 0.00 | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.03 |
| 3 mile warmup, 5 mile threshold, 2 mile cool down. I wasn't going to hold myself to my 7:20 pace pr threshold run I set the last time I did a similar training run. This course is so much tougher than that course (constant little ups and downs). I guess I did better than I thought though! My splits were: 7:20, 7:23, 7:17, 7:17, 7:03, for an average pace of 7:16! My calves were pretty tight after, but not too bad. I don't know if I'm pushing my pace too fast in my training runs or am just adjusting because I'm faster? I still have 11 weeks until my marathon and I don't want to blow up!! |
| Nike Pegasus 29 Grey Miles: 10.03 |
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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 | | 6.10 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.90 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
| Wow, my legs felt pretty tired at the beginning of this run. I guess that's why they call it a RECOVERY run! Ha. I did 4 miles 9:00 pace then 8x 100m strides with 100m walking recovery and rounded out to a total of 7 miles running the remaining miles at 9:00 pace. My stride paces were: 5:36, 5:31, 5:19, 5:13, 5:37, 5:08, 5:07, 5:21, 5:27. Okay, I just realized I did 9x100m. Oops!! No PRs here, but I think this is my most consistent set of strides and the paces were all consistently faster. Plus, this was all into a headwind, a tiny headwind, but nonetheless a headwind. :) My legs felt refreshed after this. Not PR in a race refreshed but much better than before the run! :) Now to figure out how to run my 18 miler in FL tomorrow with 22 mph sustained winds all day and 35 mph gusts. I just gotta go with my pace and not freak out if I run 9:00s against the wind, right?
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| Nike Pegasus 29 USATF Miles: 7.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 18.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 18.00 |
| Windy long run in FL. 22 mph sustained winds. I think the wind was pushing most of the way, although at some points it seemed like the wind was coming from all directions. 80F starting temperature. 8:12 min/mi overall pace! My longest run yet at BQ pace. I finished strong with my last 2 miles at 7:46 and 7:42 pace. Once I finished I realized I'm probably pushing my pace too hard lately. I think I'm going to cut back my paces this upcoming week. I still have 10 weeks till marathon and I don't want to implode! :) |
| Nike Pegasus 29 Grey Miles: 18.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 33.29 | 11.06 | 5.00 | 0.90 | 0.00 | 50.25 |
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| Nike Pegasus 29 Grey Miles: 39.09 | Nike Pegasus 29 USATF Miles: 11.16 |
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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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