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Location:

NC,USA

Member Since:

Dec 14, 2013

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

10k - 43:06

6k - 25:00

5k - 19:30

3k - 11:17

1600m - 5:31

1500m - 5:13

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

Maintain base fitness while abroad in the spring

Learn to love running again

Long-Term Running Goals:

Run half & full marathons

Stay fit & healthy

Marry a runner & have fast kids? (kidding but not kidding)

Grow in my enjoyment of running, regardless of pace/times

Personal:

I currently run for Wofford College in South Carolina, where I double major in biology and Spanish. I will be spending 5 months studying abroad in Chile in 2017. I love cookie dough a little too much and spend most of my free time outside or asleep (or both). Living & running to know Christ and to make Him known!

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Nike Structure 18 Lifetime Miles: 795.13
Adizero Avanti 2.0 Spikes Lifetime Miles: 69.05
Saucony Breakthru Lifetime Miles: 466.61
Nike Pegasus 31 Lifetime Miles: 533.93
Nike Vomero 10 Lifetime Miles: 498.70
Adidas Response Boost 2.0 Lifetime Miles: 194.45
Brooks Ghost 8 Lifetime Miles: 97.05
Brooks Glycerin 13 Lifetime Miles: 87.50
Mizuno Wave Rider 19 Lifetime Miles: 36.65
Total Distance
50.82
Nike Structure 18 Miles: 36.32
Night Sleep Time: 21.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 21.00
Total Distance
10.22

Long run Sunday! Did our run at Croft State Park. Honestly I kind of hated the trails there (bad footing, super windy, wide enough for one person) but hey its good to get off the sidewalks and its always a cool thing to change it up.

Nike Structure 18 Miles: 10.22
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Total Distance
10.50

Workout today at Milliken Park. 2 mile warm up to the start line. We did a really interesting workout of like continuous rolling repeats...we would do a 2000m interval (mine at target 6:50 mile pace), then the rest would be a 100ish meter jog over to the big hill (200 meters or so), and then 4 hill sprints with a jog back down, then jogged back to the start for the 2k repeats, and rolled into the next interval. All together 1 set of the hills and 2k was like 2.10 miles. We did 3. The 2nd and 3rd 2k repeats were actually really difficult after the hills. I felt like I was having to put a lotttt of effort in just to keep consistent splits. But I pretty consistently stayed at 6:45-50 mile pace, so that was good. I'm really pleased with the way our workouts have been going lately. They have been challenging, but I feel like we have handled them really well. Just feels like I am getting better every day. 2 mile cool down back to the cars afterwards.

Weights session later that evening. Once again, too many dang squats.

Nike Structure 18 Miles: 10.50
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Total Distance
6.00

50 minute recovery run. Did my core.

Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Total Distance
8.50

Workout at Milliken again today. 2 mile warm up, then 40 minutes of 10 hard, 5 easy, 10 hard, 5 easy, 10 hard. That amounted to 5.26 miles. Our hard was just supposed to be a steady solid effort but nothing too bad, and each 10 minute sesh should be harder than the last. I paced those 3 at about 7:26, 7:14, 7:08 pace. Easy pace was a nice conversational jog, around 8:45 pace. We averaged out sub-8 though. 1.2 mile cool down + a few strides.

Weights sesh around dinner time. 

Speaking of dinner time, I have GOT to start eating better. I guarentee I could drop like at least 15 seconds off my 5k time if I just had better portion control and also ate less dessert. I say this to myself around this time every night, but now that it's in writing....I really gotta work on it haha.

Night Sleep Time: 7.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 7.00
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Total Distance
5.00

Easy recovery run. Had fun exploring around Converse's campus. Nice place!

Nike Structure 18 Miles: 5.00
Night Sleep Time: 7.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 7.00
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Total Distance
3.60

Left WoCo at about 1:30 today for our ETSU meet this weekend. We went on a little shakeout run when we got there, 30 minutes easy around campus + some strides. I'm running my first indoor 5k tomorrow! Need to gather my thoughts

Nike Structure 18 Miles: 3.60
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Race: ETSU Invitational (3.1 Miles) 00:20:18, Place overall: 49, Place in age division: 19
Total Distance
7.00

My race was the first race of the day - first thing in the morning at 8am. We left the hotel by about 6:45 and got there at like 7:10, so I was a little rushed to warm up but it was alright. I was really happy to have the first race of the day, first off so that I wouldn't just sit there and think too much about it all day like I probably would have, and second of all so that I could really enjoy the rest of the day without worry. 

Well it was 18 laps. So that was pretty crazy because I've never ran that far on a track before. I guess I didn't take that into account like at all because I have ran a jillion 5k's....just never on a track. I was hoping for sub-19 today, which I didn't even think was a very ambitious goal. I was on pace for the first mile, ahead of pace actually, and came through at 6:06 I think. After that, with like 11 laps to go, I realized how long this race was. I think that really started to get to me mentally which is probably why my splits showed that I slowed down so much at that point. My last 800 was pretty good, but basically everything between that last 8 and that first mile was just a lost cause. I don't really know what happened, but I know it was definitely mental. I feel like I prepared as well as I could have mentally beforehand, but I guess I just didn't really know what I was preparing for. So now that I have this one under my belt, hopefully I'll be able to mentally prepare better for the next one.

20 minute cool down with my dad afterwards. I was really happy that he showed up to cheer me on - he woke up at like 5am just to drive over for that 20 minute race. :)

Nike Structure 18 Miles: 7.00
Night Sleep Time: 7.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 7.00
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Total Distance
50.82
Nike Structure 18 Miles: 36.32
Night Sleep Time: 21.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 21.00
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