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Location:

Salt Lake City,UT,

Member Since:

Aug 18, 2007

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

2007 Chicago Marathon 3:49:15

2006 Chicago Marathon 3:47:42

2005 Chicago Marathon 4:19:39

Short-Term Running Goals:

Sub 00:23 5k 

Sub 3:30 marathon48

Long-Term Running Goals:

sub 3:00:00 marathon

Personal:

I have loved to run since I was a little girl when I won my first race against a neighbor boy in his backyard. I have run recreationally ever since, but never really setting any goals other than distance or to participate in a race for the fun of it. So this is all new territory for me and I'm feeling very out of my league. At the suggestion of a friend, here I am... trying to get to the next step in my running. Besides being a runner, I own an IT Staffing company, am a yoga instructor and snowboarder. I have a wonderful husband and beautiful baby girl.
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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Tue, Sep 11, 2007
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.000.000.000.007.00

PM: About 7 miles.

2 mi warm up

8 x 2:00 fartlek workout with 2:00 slow jogging in between

2 mi cool down

I was feeling a little tight today, especially in the hip flexors. Things loosened up a bit after 3 miles.

Question for any of you GPS users... I wear a Garmin and I'm trying to determine how accurate the "calories burned" data is. I want to better monitor my calorie intake to output ratio. Everything I've ever read says that on average you burn about 100 calories per mile. My garmin data says I'm burning between 175-200/mi. Does anyone have any insight as to how accurate the garmin is? The garmin does take into account your age and weight, could this be the reason for the sizable difference?

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