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Riverside Independence 5K

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Location:

Rantoul,IL,

Member Since:

May 12, 2008

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Marathon Finish

Running Accomplishments:

1/2 marathon  1:43:09--Illinois Marathon, April 2013

10K: 46:50--Safe Kids Run in Crystal Lake Park, April 2010

5K: 22:07--Jingle Bell Run, December 2009

Short-Term Running Goals:

Do another marathon AFTER GOOD TRAINING

 

1/2 marathon in 1:41 or under

 

Break Burt's 5K PR by 1 second

 

10K in 46:00 or under

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

Keep encouraging my family in their development of a healthy lifestyle

 

God willing, I will run until the end.

Personal:

I run with God. I use my running time to contemplate, to pray and to listen for His call. I'm married to a non-runner, but a supportive one, and we have four children.

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Iso Lifetime Miles: 133.20
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
124.9017.10142.00
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
2.003.005.00

I've never felt that I should log fast mileage before, since my "fast" is not all that fast.  But today I'm excited because my run was great.

I missed the Tuesday fun run, so I did my own fun run.  I started with a 7:33 mile (I only started that fast to see what I could do), ran a recovery mile, a 7:56 mile, another recovery mile, and then a 7:52 mile.

Next time I do this workout, I'll probably start with more of a warmup first.

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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
4.500.004.50

About 4.5 miles.  It's hard to say exactly here.  Easy pace.

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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
2.300.002.30

Wish I would have gone for a run this morning.  Squeezed in a light run before putting the kids to bed.

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Race: Riverside Independence 5K (3.1 Miles) 00:24:19, Place in age division: 3
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
1.203.104.30

I'll make this a race report when I can actually find the results online...

Ran an easy 1.2 or so warm up.

Race was good, but I already know the mistake I made.  I went out at actually a comfortable pace.  When I saw, though, that my first mile was 7:33, I consciously slowed down, even though I had probably already slowed down by the time I hit the first mile.  It was weird, though, because I didn't feel I was going that fast.  And I felt slow in the first .25 mile.  My second mile was then 8:27.

But after the second mile I felt good.  Once I looked and saw 16 minutes on the clock I picked up the pace because I couldn't believe that I had slowed down that much.  I'm too lazy right now to do the math for the min/mile pace, but I did the last 1.1 in 8:20 or so.   My  official time 24:19.  I had a good kick, which is why I know that I can do better that second mile!

I was pleased overall, since my goal was to be in low 25.  And I seem to always make that same mistake during the 2nd mile, so maybe one of these days I'll learn. 

AND HOLY COW!  I WAS 3RD IN MY AGE DIVISION!  That was a surprise.

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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
4.500.004.50

A nice recovery run.

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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
10.000.0010.00

good long run.

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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
5.000.005.00

Ran at Parkland--down and back to Kaufman, over to Duncan and then in along the perimeter road.

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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
2.503.005.50

2 tempo miles, then 2 800s at 3:30 apiece.  Then I ran into Genevieve and ran 1.5 slow miles with her and then ran a mile home.

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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
5.600.005.60

Nice slow run.  The last 1/2 mile was hard.

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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
4.900.004.90

Drove all the way to LOTW and into a severe thunderstorm.  Decided to drive home.  Started my run a little late, but got in a good run.

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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
12.000.0012.00

Felt good.  Average pace was 9:40.  Tried some G2 with water at 4 miles and 8 miles.  That helped tremendously.

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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
2.003.005.00

I ran a warmup mile at 8:44 (I was raring to go after about .3 miles).  Then I ran 3 fast miles 23 minutes) and then a cool down mile (10 minutes).  I felt great!

Best run EVER!!

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4.000.004.00

Ran with the XC kids.  After about 3 miles I let the kids I was running with go ahead while I waited to give support to a new runner.  I ran about a mile with her.  I'm pleased she was able to run all 4 miles.

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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
4.002.006.00

Ran 2 slow miles to the track.  On the track I did intervals.

800--3:48, 400--1:52, 400--1:54, 800--3:42, 400--1:51, 400--1:51.  I was a little fast on some of them, but not by much (goal for 800 was 3:47, for 400, 1:54).  It felt good, but I feel as if I can start increasing the distance for my speed workouts.

Then I ran 2 slow miles home.

 

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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
6.000.006.00

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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
12.500.0012.50

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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
4.000.004.00

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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
4.000.004.00

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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
4.500.004.50

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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
5.200.005.20

Running this week was light--vacation.

Mileage is only approximate from last Friday till today, but today's run is accurate.

Back to the swing of things tomorrow.

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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
12.500.0012.50

A good run.  After 10.5 I felt good--I almost stopped then to help my dad look for his keys (that my mom lost).  Instead I ran the route to look for them.  We didn't find them.

After running the route I cut my run a little short since it was getting dark and I wanted to visit my new niece before leaving to go home tomorrow. 

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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
1.001.002.00

Got in 2 miles before the storm started.

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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
7.700.007.70

Ran 3.4 before the kids arrived, then did 4.3 with several of the runners.  We did a little fartlek during the run.

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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
3.002.005.00

2 miles tempo

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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
124.9017.10142.00
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