| 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 | | 38.23 | 4.00 | 0.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 42.73 |
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| Nike Pegasus 30 Black/grey Miles: 29.60 | Kinvara 4 Yellow Miles: 5.01 | Cortana 3 Miles: 4.24 | Adidas Boost Miles: 3.88 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 16.01 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 16.01 |
| 15-16 miles easy
Niles, IL; 16.01 miles in 2:17:33 at 8:35 min/mi AP. Met up with some friends and we got to chatting and noticed we were running 8:20s so kept trying to pull back the pace. I'm not sure why 8:20s felt so easy, but it's nice! I was feeling pretty fatigued at the end because my carb intake was zero.
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| Nike Pegasus 30 Black/grey Miles: 16.01 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 5.41 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.41 |
| 45-50 mins easy with 4-6x100m strides
Chicago downtown through the city; 4.16 mi in 39:35, 9:30 min/mi AP then 6 strides @ 5:26 min/mi AP. My legs felt so fried at the start, like they've been pounded a lot. They felt a little better towards the end. Hammies and soleus are tight. The strides felt nice to stretch things out! 5.41 miles total in 52:44
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 5.01 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.01 |
| 40-45 mins easy
Boston Charles River; 5.01 miles in 45:23, 9:04 min/mi AP. My legs felt much less trashed than yesterday. Finished up with some PT exercises and weights.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 3.68 | 4.00 | 0.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.18 |
| 15 min w.u. 2 mile tempo, 2 mins rest, 800@10k pace, 3 mins rest 2 mile tempo 15 min c.d. with tempo between HMP and MP
Charles River loop; tempo splits were: 7:59/7:55/7:47/7:52 (7:53 min/mi AP); 800 was @ 7:12 min/mi AP. 8.18 mi total in 1:08:35. I tried to slow down my paces to be more realistic of my current fitness (although the 800 was probably still too fast). I had major adductor soreness from weights yesterday, but seemed to go away during wu. I was very tired all day yesterday and woke up tired after 8+ h sleep - not sure what's going on here. Finished with PT exercises and strength work.
I've been freaking that my tempos are supposed to be between HMP and MP. This seems so slow, but from what I'm reading this is called "aerobic threshold" not to be confused with "lactate threshold"? I am trying to succumb to this concept, which sounds like I should be doing as I am base building for Boston 2 Big Sur. My hip has been consistently feeling better though so I'm itching to push my LT to get my speed back! I hope my patience pays off at the end of April!
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 4.24 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.24 |
| 35-40 mins easy with 4x100m strides
Shaking things out...There was a nice breeze blowing from the ocean up the river. The salt water smell reminded me of my FL runs...but 40 degrees cooler. :)
Charles River in Cambridge; 3.68 mi @ 9:16 min/mi AP then 4x100m strides @ 5:37 min/mi AP. Adductors were more sore than yesterday! It's been so long since I've felt this just sore not injured feeling - absolutely love it!! 4.24 mi in 40:14
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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 |
| My workout today was to get extra sleep - rest day!! ~ 9.5 h sleep. :)
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 3.88 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.88 |
| 20-25 mins easy + 4x100m strides
Charles River Cambrigde; 3.36 mi @ 8:38 min/mi AP then 4 strides @ 5:22 min/mi AP. Hamstrings are still tight and sore from Tuesday's strength workout, but didn't seem to be too much of a problem on the run. 3.88 mi total in 34:17. My shin is freaking me out. I missed a box jump 3 weeks ago and banged my shin it's still hurting but I don't notice it much during my run, just after. It says online it can take 3-4 weeks to heal, might see my ortho this week depending on how it feels tomorrow.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 38.23 | 4.00 | 0.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 42.73 |
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| Nike Pegasus 30 Black/grey Miles: 29.60 | Kinvara 4 Yellow Miles: 5.01 | Cortana 3 Miles: 4.24 | Adidas Boost Miles: 3.88 |
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