| Location: Cambridge,MA,United States Member Since: Apr 19, 2012 Gender: Female Goal Type: Marathon Finish Running Accomplishments: 5k: 20:32 (6:36 min/mi) -4/14/13
8k: 33:28 (6:44 min/mi) - 4/7/13
10k: 44:44 (7:11 min/mi) - 12/15/12
15k: 1:10:17 (7:32 min/mi) - 6/23/12
10 Mile: 1:18:03 (7:48 min/mi) - 5/26/12
Half Marathon: 1:41:40 (7:45 min/mi) - 7/22/12
Marathon: 3:32:11 (8:05 min/mi) - 1/13/13
Boston 2 Big Sur: 7:36:02 (8:42 min/mi) - 4/21/14, 4/27/14
Number of Marathons: 9
Number of States: 7 (IL, FL, KY, MN, TN, MA, CA) Short-Term Running Goals: Sub 20 min 5k
Half marathon PR Summer 2014
NYC Marathon 2014 Long-Term Running Goals: Join 50 states club
3:25, 3:15, sub 3:00 marathon? The sky's the limit! I want to see how fast I can get! :) Personal: I started running in 2009, and am still learning a lot about running. Right now I have it made, I am living in Cambridge, MA temporarily doing a Post-Doc at MIT and taking advantage of improving my running by learning from all the speedy Boston runners and hitting the hills. I travel to FL to visit my family and get some "heat" training in. Then travel back to Chicago frequently to see my husband and show off my new running legs in all the flat, fast races. |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 78.67 | 0.00 | 7.65 | 4.50 | 0.00 | 90.82 |
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| Nike Zoom Elite 6 Neon Miles: 3.21 | Kinvara 4 Yellow Miles: 4.19 | Nike Pegasus 30 Black/grey Miles: 9.51 | Brooks Pure Flow Black - Boston Miles: 4.06 | Nike Zoom Elite 6 Baby Blue Miles: 6.01 | Brooks Pure Flow Black - Chicago Miles: 17.89 | Boston Kinvaras Miles: 13.50 | Nike Zoom Elite 6 Miles: 9.10 | Saucony Ride 7 Miles: 23.35 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 182.30 | Nap Time: 2.25 | Total Sleep Time: 184.55 | Weight: 0.00 | |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 3.21 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.21 |
| First run back! Felt so weird, but oh so good. 9:22 min/mi AP. Did a bit of strength work after.
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| Nike Zoom Elite 6 Neon Miles: 3.21 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 7.75 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 7.75 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 30 mins walking the beginning of the NYC marathon on my treadmill. :)
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| Night Sleep Time: 8.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 8.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 3.69 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.50 | 0.00 | 4.19 |
| 4.19 miles with a 800 m time trial just to establish a starting point - 3:21.7. Strides and form drills included. Then 30 mins of strength work.
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| Kinvara 4 Yellow Miles: 4.19 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.75 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.75 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 1:06 on the bike with 6x2 mins hard. Then some minor core work.
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| Night Sleep Time: 8.15 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 8.15 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 5.01 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.01 |
| Early morning run with my girls. 5.01 miles at 8:51 min/mi AP and form drills. Did not feel as easy as before the marathons, but I was glad to keep up. 26 mins strength after.
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| Nike Pegasus 30 Black/grey Miles: 5.01 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.10 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.10 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 1 h easy bike followed by 17 mins core work.
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| Night Sleep Time: 7.28 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 7.28 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 4.06 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.06 |
| 4.06 mi easy with 6 strides and form drills.
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| Brooks Pure Flow Black - Boston Miles: 4.06 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 10.17 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 10.17 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 6.01 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.01 |
| MI run after a very delayed, long flight the night before. 6.01 mi sleepy miles at 8:31 min/mi AP.
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| Nike Zoom Elite 6 Baby Blue Miles: 6.01 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 2.25 | Total Sleep Time: 8.25 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 1:08 of walking ~ 3.8 mi
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| Night Sleep Time: 9.52 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 9.52 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 3.49 | 0.00 | 2.28 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.77 |
| 2 mi wu, form drills, 4 strides, then 6x2:00 min between 5k-10k with 2:00 recoveries and 1+ mi cd.
It felt so nice to get a workout in!
Followed up with 26 mins strength/core
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| Brooks Pure Flow Black - Chicago Miles: 5.77 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.95 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.95 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 44 mins strength/weights
+ 10mins elliptical
+ 50mins bike
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| Night Sleep Time: 7.58 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 7.58 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 4.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 6.50 |
| Hot, hot, humid hot. It was 82 F at 5am!!
1.5 mi wu, form drills, and 4 strides. I modified my workout because I'm just not ready to run track repeats over 400m. So, ended up doing: 2x[200m, 3x400m, 200m] with 200m recoveries and 400m recovery between sets. This is the longest track workout I've done in a very long time. 200s were: 46.7, 52.7, 51.2, 48.8 (49.9 avg) and 400s were: 1:42.4, 1:44.6, 1:47.2, 1:48.5, 1:45.3, 1:43.0 (1:45.2 avg). It's hard to pace when you aren't running in a pack or your watch isn't beeping at you!
Followed up with 14 mins core work.
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| Boston Kinvaras Miles: 6.50 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 8.28 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 8.28 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 58 mins strength/weights
40 mins ellipticalling
I love this post-exercise leg muscle soreness thing. It's such a pleasant change from the post-exercise something's injured pain!
Building a strong foundation to tear things up this Summer/Fall.
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| Night Sleep Time: 7.98 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 7.98 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| The wave of weight lifting muscle fatigue and humidity overtook my easy run today and popping me with a humbling just barely sub 10 min pace. Form drills and strides included.
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| Brooks Pure Flow Black - Chicago Miles: 5.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 8.85 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 8.85 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 9.10 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.10 |
| 9.1 humbling miles. 9:24 min/mi AP.
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| Nike Zoom Elite 6 Miles: 9.10 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 8.08 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 8.08 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 1 h walk on the NYC course. I've lost 5.4 lbs fat and gained 4.2 lbs muscle in 2 weeks! :)
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| Night Sleep Time: 8.83 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 8.83 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 3.41 | 0.00 | 2.59 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| AM: 20min tempo @ 7:45 min/mi AP - getting a better idea of my fitness. I think I hit this tempo spot on, my % max hr stayed between 88-92. I'm noticing I have no stamina. My previous training cycle was too much interval not so much steady, longish effort.
PM: 30 mins heavy weights.
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| Saucony Ride 7 Miles: 6.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 8.13 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 8.13 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 7.12 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.12 |
| 7 miles trying to keep things aerobic, which was a little tough with the heat and humidity. 9:18 min/mi AP - 84% max hr. Running is starting to feel easier again.
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| Brooks Pure Flow Black - Chicago Miles: 7.12 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 40 mins elliptical 73% max hr, then 13 mins burning the core.
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| Night Sleep Time: 7.40 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 7.40 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 5.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
| Treadmill 1% incline. 5x800m @ 7:20 pace (last repeat @ 7:15 pace) with equal time recoveries. I haven't done this effort for this long of a repeat in over a year! It felt good, and I know I just need to work on my confidence.
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| Boston Kinvaras Miles: 7.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 7.97 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 7.97 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 4.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.50 |
| 4.5 miles easy with 6x100m strides. Need to ditch the Pegasus, they aggravate my feet. 9:32 min/mi AP.
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| Nike Pegasus 30 Black/grey Miles: 4.50 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 8.08 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 8.08 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| Minuteman Bike path. This is a magical path for me. I always seem to bust out a speedy long run here! Maybe it's bc of the small grade out and negative grade back. :) 8:12 min/mi AP with a 7:22 for the last mile - that mile was faster than my tempo miles! Opps.
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| Saucony Ride 7 Miles: 10.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 8.05 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 8.05 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 1:06 walk, 4 miles. Let's talk some metrics. I lost 1.7 lbs of fat this week and gained 3.3 lbs of muscle!! That's a 7.1 lb fat loss and 7.5 lb muscle gain in 3 weeks. Wahoo! Now I just gotta lose 9.7 lbs of fat!! Eww.
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| Night Sleep Time: 8.53 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 8.53 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 4.57 | 0.00 | 2.78 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.35 |
| AM: 2 mi wu, form drills, 4x60m strides, 21 min tempo, 2+ mi cd. Half against a nice head wind to work on my confidence, back with a little boost. Splits were: 7:36, 7:32, 5:54 (7:33 pace) - 7:33 min/mi AP. My, my what a difference a week makes! I finished way stronger than last week and a bit faster the whole way. Recovering a bit at work, then weights later!
PM: 45 mins weights. I deadlifted 80 lbs! I defintely could have done more, but only have dumbells when I do weights in Cambridge. I also upped my squat weight to 40 lbs, again with dumbells. I get so scared to try heavier weight, and then I try it and it's not so hard! Just like running I guess. :) I can't wait to go to Chicago and use a real bar for lifts!
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| Saucony Ride 7 Miles: 7.35 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 7.85 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 7.85 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 78.67 | 0.00 | 7.65 | 4.50 | 0.00 | 90.82 |
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| Nike Zoom Elite 6 Neon Miles: 3.21 | Kinvara 4 Yellow Miles: 4.19 | Nike Pegasus 30 Black/grey Miles: 9.51 | Brooks Pure Flow Black - Boston Miles: 4.06 | Nike Zoom Elite 6 Baby Blue Miles: 6.01 | Brooks Pure Flow Black - Chicago Miles: 17.89 | Boston Kinvaras Miles: 13.50 | Nike Zoom Elite 6 Miles: 9.10 | Saucony Ride 7 Miles: 23.35 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 182.30 | Nap Time: 2.25 | Total Sleep Time: 184.55 | Weight: 0.00 | |
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