| Location: Fort Worth,TX,USA Member Since: Jul 15, 2010 Gender: Female Goal Type: Age Division Winner Running Accomplishments: I started running in 2008 while I was a stay-at-home-mom. I discovered this blog in July 2010 and followed the advice from the blog to gradually improve my distance/speed. I achieved various PR's in 2010/2011. I went back to work part-time in 2012-2015 and switched to mostly running trail runs. When I got prego with my third child in 2016, I stopped running and started work full-time. After a 7 year hiatus, I returned to running in 2022. I have alot of work to do to get back in shape, but looking forward to the challenge!
P.R.'s
5K - 21:15 on 11/25/10 (6:50 pace) Overall Female Winner! (local Fort Worth race)
10K - 45:08 on 4/16/11 (7:17 pace)
15K - 1:11:17 on 11/20/10 (7:39 pace)
10 Mile Race - 1:14:28 on 2/12/11 (7:26 pace)
Half Marathon - 1:35:21 on 10/15/11 (7:17 pace) and 1:35:48 on 3/27/11 -Dallas Rock 'n Roll, Qualified for NYC Marathon with this race!
Marathon - 3:35:10 on 11/14/10 (8:12 pace) - Fort Worth Marathon. Qualified for Boston with this race!
NYC Marathon 2014 - 4 hours, 9 minutes - about 9:30 pace. Best race ever! So much fun and energy! Short-Term Running Goals: - Gradually increase mileage
- Gradually increase speed
- Get my body back in shape - add muscles, lose excess fat
- Run a half-marathon in Fall 2022 Long-Term Running Goals: - Stay injury free
- Become age division winner again!
- Stay in the habit of running for as long as I possibly can
- Travel to run fun trail runs across the country
Personal: Married Mom to three kids - Jake (14), Ryan (12) and Avery (5) - and two dogs. Work in Procurement for the Aerospace Industry. |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 106.50 | 0.00 | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 114.50 |
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| Asics Nimbus Miles: 67.00 | Asics Cumulus-gray/teal Miles: 37.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
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6 miles... Finally feeling better after a month of dealing with bronchitis. NYC marathon is only 1 month away now. Geez...
ran slow at 9:33/m | |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| Great run! Average pace =8:44/m. Two miles were sub-8. It was 50 degrees outside! wonderful! So glad I can run again without coughing. |
| Asics Cumulus-gray/teal Miles: 7.50 |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
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5 miles at 6pm. It was rather hot at 85F. I don't like running this late because I find that it makes it harder for me to fall asleep later.
NYC is Nov 4th... not much time left. I am so pissed I got bronchitis and missed all this training.
Plan is to run 12 tomorrow. I am going into work at 6am so I can get off at 3pm and do this 12 miler at Trinity park in the daylight. Then I will be done in enough time to pick my kids up from daycare at the usual time.
I'm going to aim for 17-18 on Saturday... then on Oct 21st I'm doing a 20 mile race. I'll be going slow using it as a training run. |
| Asics Cumulus-gray/teal Miles: 5.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 12.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.00 |
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12 miles at 3:45pm. Went into work at 6am so I could get off at 3pm and do a long run in the daylight before I picked my kids up. Averaged 9:04/m, really even splits.
The time off of running caused me to loose all my calluses on my feet. The pads of my feet feel bruised now. Other than that, I was feeling pretty good.
I'm going to do 16 on Saturday and 20 the following Saturday... only have time for 2 week taper. Nothing like cramming for a marathon. This is scarey! |
| Asics Cumulus-gray/teal Miles: 12.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 7.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.50 |
| Just around the neighborhood. |
| Asics Cumulus-gray/teal Miles: 7.50 |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 18.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 18.00 |
| 18 miles at Trinity River by myself. I was a little worried if I would be able to go this far so I wanted to run by myself so I could go slow. It was average 9:45/m. I felt great except for major, major blisters. I'm starting to feel like NYC is doable now. The weather was muggy. 70F and 90% humidity. |
| Asics Nimbus Miles: 18.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| Ran a little harder today. Averaged 8:45/m. One mile was 8:20. Nothing spectacular. There were some hills. |
| Asics Cumulus-gray/teal Miles: 5.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| I got off work, picked the boys up, dropped them off at my mom's and then ran 5 miles at the park by her house. A nice little experiment that sounded easier than it was. Didn't get the boys home until 8:30pm. I didn't eat dinner until 9pm. | |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 20.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 20.00 |
| 20 miles at 8:57/m. Ran with Mo and Meghan. We took it easy. My legs felt great. It didn't feel hard at all. Actually, I was amazed that at the end I picked it up to 8:30/m the final two and it felt like I was finishing maybe 10 miles. I even got blister protectors today so I didn't suffer with my feet as bad... they still hurt a little, but I could definitely handle that over last week's sufferfest. Now I just wonder what pace I'll be capable of for 26.2. I've never done my long miles at such a slow pace before. I am the least injured I've ever been after running 20+ miles. Hmmm... there could be a correlation there. Anyways, normally I would run these long runs at 8:00/m which is around what my goal race pace would be. Now I'm not confident enough to do that. I'm thinking maybe I could manage 8:45/m at NYC... possibly 8:30... I'm thinking about spending the next couple weeks running 8:30's for 6-10 milers to see how that feels. #1 goal at NYC is just to have fun though. I don't want to over-stress this race. I got sick in the middle of training so I didn't train very well. |
| Asics Nimbus Miles: 20.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
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8 miles at 5am with Tim and Ashley. First and last mile was 8:45ish. The middle miles were 8:30ish. My legs got a workout. It's nice to run with my friends again! I am inspired to get myself back into PR shape. It won't happen for NYC but maybe I can run Dallas in December and try to qualify for Boston. I think I just need a goal to inspire me. I feel so lucky to have so many running friends to train with who like to set goals like this too.
This was a great morning all around. Tomorrow I've agreed to meet them and some others at Trinity River at 4:45am... which means I have to leave my house at 4:30am.... which means I have to wake up by 4am. I'm excited. After weeks of dealing with bronchitis, maybe the #1 thing that I got out of it is to appreciate being well enough to run. | |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| Met Ash, Tim and Wendy for 10 at 4:45am. Avg 9:00/m . Final miles I thought I sped up to 8/m because that's what it felt like... But home and saw it was only 8:45/m. Haven't been getting a lot of sleep this week. Busy at work. Hope that's why. Heard storm Frankenstein is coming to NYC marathon! This is going to be a memorable day! |
| Asics Nimbus Miles: 10.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 10.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.50 |
| 10.5 miles at 8:31/m average pace |
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| | Easy Miles | Threshold Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Track speed mileage | Hill mileage | Total | | 106.50 | 0.00 | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 114.50 |
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| Asics Nimbus Miles: 67.00 | Asics Cumulus-gray/teal Miles: 37.00 |
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