Maria's Running Blog

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Location:

London,UK

Member Since:

Jan 02, 2006

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Age Division Winner

Running Accomplishments:

Collegiate: 100m - 13.2 (1985) 200m - 27.0 (indoors, 1989) 400m - 62.3 (indoors, 1989) Post-Collegiate: 5K - 21:37 (1998) 5mi - 35:15 (1998) 10K - 45:04 (1998) 15K - 1:11:36 (2006) 20K - 1:35:34 (2006) Half - 1:42:03 (2007) Marathon - 3:37:04 (Cal International, 2000)

Short-Term Running Goals:

Get my weekly mileage in the 35-40 range.

Long-Term Running Goals:

I guess at this point I just want to keep running for fitness and weight control.

Personal:

I was born in Moscow, Russia in '68, where I started running sprint events in '83. I moved to the US (NYC area) in '91 and didn't run again till '96 when I discovered road racing scene. I was hooked after my first 5K race. I had another break in running from '01-'04 and decided to seriously get back into it in August of '05. I'm married and have 16 year old daughter. I have moved to London in August '06, will probably stay here for a few years.

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Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	0.00
Asics Gel Nimbus 9 Lifetime Miles:						354.40
Mizuno Wave Rider 9 (3) Lifetime Miles:						350.73
Adidas Supernova Cushion (2) Lifetime Miles:						293.25
Asics DS Trainer XI Lifetime Miles:						134.68
Saucony Fastwitch Endurance Lifetime Miles:						120.98
Brooks Defyance Lifetime Miles:						13.00
Asics Gel Nimbus 10 Lifetime Miles:						0.00

Thu, Feb 15, 2007

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Trainer 1 Miles	Trainer 2 Miles	Racer Miles	Total Distance
5.40	0.00	0.00	3.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	8.40

I finally got to doing mile repeats today. My feet were sore due to stupid high heels, as I was afraid they would. Warmed up 2.6mi and ran 3x1mile with equal time jog between. I ran on the non-standard track that is 387m long, so I tried to run extra 45m but it was hard to tell. I also decided to wear HR monitor today just out of curiosity. Here is how it went:

Distance Time HR

1.02 7:19 162

1.00 7:05 168

0.99 7:00 170

I felt much harder effort on the second repeat, and on the third I really felt bad the entire time, but the pace stayed the same, and I even was able to accelerate the last 300m. Hard workout, but I felt pretty strong, all things considered. Total time 1:13:03. Again, I had 3 quality days back to back. Tomorrow is just an easy day, finally.

Comments

From Nick on Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 01:04:52

Nice work! Three quality days in a row is some hard stuff!

From Maria on Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 06:20:19

Thanks Nick. It is not ideal to have 3 hard days in a row, I was supposed to have Tuesday as an easy recovery, but since I took off Monday, I had to do Monday's workout on Tuesday and that's how it happened (for the second week in a row!). I'll try to get back on schedule next week. I'm just trying to keep the mileage consistenly over 50, so I don't want to take extra days off.

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