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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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Had a bit of a set back last Friday, with chest pain and heart palpitation on the way to work. I have no idea why. Felt like crap all Friday, and decided to take few days off. Maybe I pushed it too much with the pace, or maybe track meets are too much for me now. Who knows...

Ran very easy 3 miler and felt okay, but not great.

Total time: 30:09 (9:43 pace).

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTrainer 1 MilesTrainer 2 MilesRacer MilesTotal Distance
3.100.000.000.000.000.000.003.10

Feeling better, but now I caught a cold somewhere. Totally stuffed up and sitting next to the tissue box. Felt pretty good on the run though. I wore my HR monitor again, but again it was showing wild results. At one point it started showing desreasing HR until 64, which was defintiely not true. Towards the end, it showed 130-150, which I think is realistic. I was careful not to push the pace at all.

Total time: 29:39 (9:33 pace).

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Sick, sick, sick... I couldn't sleep last night, couldn't breathe and kept waking up every half hour. Woke up already tired. Then spent all day at work sneezing and struggling to talk on the phone. As luck would have it, I was the only one on site today and had to deal with a broken web proxy on a remote connection that my German colleague was trying to use. After an hour of trouble shooting I gave up and did a Webex with him, giving him remote control of my desktop (because the server was up just fine on internal network).  Now, in the evening, I still can't breathe through my nose, and can only imagine the fun night ahead. I can't even take any medication for the cold, not even zinc, because everything can affect my INR. I have to even watch my diet.

Ok, I think I complained enough. Hopefully tomorrow will be better or at least not worse.

 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTrainer 1 MilesTrainer 2 MilesRacer MilesTotal Distance
4.300.000.000.000.000.000.004.30

Still sick, but feeling a bit better. I slept better last night, and the stuffiness is not as bad today, but now it moved to my throat. I kept popping cough lozenges all day and I think they messed up my stomach.

Went out and ran one loop around the park. Didn't wear HR monitor and moved naturally faster. Felt okay except for the messed up stomach.

Total time: 39:49 (9:15 pace).

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTrainer 1 MilesTrainer 2 MilesRacer MilesTotal Distance
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