| 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 | | 36.00 | 12.14 | 0.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 51.14 |
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| Nike Pegasus 29 Blue/Crimson Miles: 46.14 | Nike Pegasus 29 Grey Miles: 5.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 17.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 17.00 |
| The point of racing the day before this long run was to get teach yourself to fight fatigue. Well, it did just that! Most the run felt like I had already run 20 miles I guess that fast hill work the day before took a lot out of me. I tried to not put too much pressure on myself especially after running 22 miles at 8:03 pace last week. I focused on good form to prevent injury. Wrapped 17 miles up with a 8:29 min/mi average pace. Felt somewhat strong at the end like I could push a mile or two at sub 8, but at a high risk of injury. Good to know what my options are at the end of the marathon if I'm borderline on BQ-ing! Humbling but a confidence booster at the same time. Glad it's over and I know I can do those back-to-back hard days. Just to prove how much I want this BQ time, I actually skipped the routine warm epsom salt bath followed by ice protocol and instead did a 20 min ice water bath soak!!! Holy moley! That sucked at the beginning, but my legs hadn't felt better in a couple weeks than after this bath!! Just have some muscle soreness in my glutes, probably from all those hills. I can't believe I'm really doing this. Supercompensating from this week after last week is going to really set me up for some good performances if I just stay injury-free!!! |
| Nike Pegasus 29 Blue/Crimson Miles: 17.00 |
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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 |
| Full rest recovery day. Supercompensate, soft tissue!!! I will get you massaged tonight, so treat me good! :) |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 0.00 | 12.14 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.14 |
| 12 miles at steady state pace. Really didn't want to do this run. I think because of all the nightmares I've been having about running slow and it's my last midweek 12 miler before the race! Well, got it done and surprised myself by running faster than last week's 12 miler. 7:34 min/mi average pace! Next two weeks these runs become 11 miles with 2 less bridge repeats, then taper!!! |
| Nike Pegasus 29 Blue/Crimson Miles: 12.14 |
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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 recovery run. Needed this. 9:10 min/mi average pace. |
| Nike Pegasus 29 Blue/Crimson Miles: 8.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 9.00 |
| Track workout. 2.3 mile warmup, 4x1200m at 5k race pace with 600m recovery, 2.3 mile cool down. Splits were: 4:58.3 (6:39 min/mi) 4:55.8 (6:36 min/mi) 4:58.1 (6:39 min/mi) 4:56.7 (6:38 min/mi) No PRs but consistency. First time holding pace below 6:40 min/mi so maybe that counts as a PR. :) Not bad after the hard last couple of weeks of running and my increasing severity in stomach issues (i.e., not back with an intestine feeling like it's tied up in a cute, little bow). |
| Nike Pegasus 29 Blue/Crimson Miles: 9.00 |
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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 |
| No bikram. Issues leaving the parking garage. Oh well, just double up on weights instead!!! No running today, active rest day. |
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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 easy miles in FL at 9:06 min/mi average pace. 66 and 100% humidity. It's so weird running in shorts and a tank!!! Massage later to get ready for Sunday's long run. |
| Nike Pegasus 29 Grey Miles: 5.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 36.00 | 12.14 | 0.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 51.14 |
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| Nike Pegasus 29 Blue/Crimson Miles: 46.14 | Nike Pegasus 29 Grey Miles: 5.00 |
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