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Location:

MD,

Member Since:

Mar 30, 2008

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Marathon Finish

Running Accomplishments:

Marathons: Pre-Marine Corp Training Marathon, Marine Corp (5:24), DC Inagural (5:02), Pittsburgh.

National Half Marathon (end of March 2007) 2:18:01 (10:21)

St Pats.Shamrock 8k (Mar. 18, 2007) 45:47 (9:13)

Jingle Bell 10K 2006 60:43 (9:47)

Run for Victory 5k (2001) 27.52.1

Short-Term Running Goals:

In the next 6 months I would like to feel fitter, look fitter, run faster, and not feel like an elephant plodding along. I would like to improve my 5K times, and run a marathon in October. Goal for the marathon is 4:30. Not sure if this is possible....

Long-Term Running Goals:

Let's just get through the summer, then we can talk about long term running goals!

Personal:

Trying to get in shape through running. Not sure I enjoy it -- I feel it too much, I am too loud running.. it is not graceful. Not pretty. I have had some euphoric moments running, like when listening to Bon Jovi (I know...I know) or Tina Turner (you're simply the best!!) but these moments are not that often. I love how I feel after accomplishing a run.

I love the treadmill.... Love my ipod... blink 182 (are you feelin' this..) and a whole mish mash of other tunes that get me moving. I want to be better, faster, more graceful... and more accountable- therefore I am here.

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Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	0.00

Wed, Aug 06, 2008

Slow miles	Fast miles	Total Distance
3.00	3.00	6.00

Thank God we are starting to do some "speed" work. The word speed is laughable since our "speed" work is supposed to be 10:20 pace, but tonight we did 9:45 min/ miles on the fast miles, and 10:20 on the slow ones. I got home at about 9pm, and Jason and I stopped for pizza- Ate too much! Darn it! 20 minutes after I finished, I though I was going to keel over and die... not too many of these kinds of nights, but I really hate when I do this to myself. Yukk....

Anyway, I felt good- maybe still a little tired from doing the 18 on Sunday - but I think tomorrow I will feel really good. I plan to run again Friday and then take off on saturday in order to rest a bit more for the 20k on Sunday.

Thinking about Lucia- the argentine rocket-- hoping she is doing ok- and is resting and not beating herself up over the stress fracture! Sending you good vibes, and happy thoughts!

Talk soon my friends....

Night Sleep Time: 0.00	Nap Time: 0.00	Total Sleep Time: 0.00

Comments

From walter on Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 10:31:16

Pizza will drop you to your knees after a hard run! lol Have you seen the website www.mcmillanrunning.com? It has a calculator to help you figure your speed workout times with the distances. Just put in your latest race time from the distance you ran and it will predict your marathon time down to half marathon and even mile time. Its pretty accurate.

From jill on Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 11:00:05

Walter- After I run this one next race, I will do the calculator... I can not bare to think that Riley's Rumble would be a predictor for me. Actually, the way I felt last night after downing 4 slices of crazy pizza sort of resembled the way I felt during Riley's Rumble! Can not wait to do a better job on Sunday. I just wonder if training slow makes you slow? It is supposed to be a theory of running 2 minutes slower than your typical pace will make you a strong marathoner... I think however, my legs have forgotten about whatever little speed they had. This weekend should be a good indicator. Thanks for your help! You rock!

From w on Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 12:06:42

Trust me running slower doesnt make your times in races come down. Not running at all does! Oh and eating crazy pizza is not a good recovery to runs which I cannot put in the 12 ways to recovery for lucia. lol I have used the calculator to help bring my marathon times from 3:30 to 2:40. It really does help you to try to stick to the times they show for speed workouts and even tempo runs. Oh it also tells you what your slow long run times should be around also. I gave this to a 55 year old neighbor lady and she ran her fastest marathon in 4:00 hours. She used the calculator on her training for St. George last year and busted out a 3:40! So awesome!

From Lucia on Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 08:55:22

Jill!!! You are really making us anxious about your race yesterday, how did it go??? Thanks for thinking of me my friend! Don't beat yourself up for one night of eating too much. You have the entire week to make it up for it!

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