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Location:

Phoenix,AZ,

Member Since:

Jul 23, 2007

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

5K: 22:15 (January 2005);
10K-48:40 (November 2005)
Half-marathon: 1:50:25 (, March 2006);
Marathon: 3:54:16 (January 2006)

Short-Term Running Goals:

BQ

Finish half marathon in January 2010

Run consistently

Lose pregnancy weight + 10 pounds 

 


 





Long-Term Running Goals:

Complete an Ironman triathlon; run the Comrades Marathon in South Africa (55 miles)
Marathon: sub 3:30
Half marathon: sub 1:40
10K: sub 42 minutes
5K: sub 21 minutes

Find out what my potential is and reach it.


Personal:

I've been running since high school (mid-1990s) and do pretty well when I'm focused on a goal. My main problem  is running consistently when I'm NOT training for something specific. I'm an attorney, and I've been married to my husband, also a runner, for 5 1/2 years. We live in Phoenix, Arizona.  We had a beautiful baby girl, Caroline, in August 2009.

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Today we ran along the Charles River in Boston.  What a beautiful city!  Our hotel was in a very good location, right off Beacon Street on the Freedom Trail, but we had a hard time finding the river.  We probably walked a good 1-1.5 miles to find the trail.  We ran for about 48 minutes.  My Garmin said we went 5 miles, but I think we went a bit farther, because the time was  a little off, and the Garmin has a hard time keeping the signal with so many trees.

This afternoon, we went on a bike tour of Boston.  We had signed up for a guided tour on bikes, but we greatly underestimated how long it would take to get to the bike shop, so we missed the tour!  We rented the bikes anyway and did our own self-guided tour.  It was scary at first, riding in the traffic, but we got the hang of it after a while and ended up really enjoying ourselves.  We rode for almost 3 hours, and I have no idea how far we went!  All I know is, I am all fired up about running the Boston marathon after seeing it on foot and bike!

I wasn't able to run as much during our vacation as I wanted to.  Most of our vacations are whirlwind tours where we don't have any time or energy to run, so this was actually better than most.  And I am so spoiled now after running in the beautiful weather.  Time to fire up the treadmil again!  I feel good and well-rested for next week! 

Comments
From Brent on Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 23:08:47

Good luck on your BQ. When is the next marathon? Reading your blog comment about the Garmin, both me and my wife have Garmins, we can be as much as .13 difference between us on an 8 mile run. The Garmin quite often has me running much slower than I expect. Trees and underpasses. No experience like the Boston Marathon, I ran the 100th running in 1996, hope you qualify. Oct. 1 starts the qualifying for both the 2008 amd 2009 race.

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