| 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 | | 44.71 | 6.00 | 6.51 | 1.44 | 0.00 | 58.66 |
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| Pearl Izumi Peak II Miles: 8.04 | Nike Pegasus 29 Blue Miles: 34.09 | Kinvara 2 Lime Miles: 0.50 | Brooks Pure Flow Purple - FL Miles: 16.03 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 45.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 45.00 | Weight: 119.92 | |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 8.04 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.04 |
| Trail run! It was 83F when I started, 87F when I finished. Luckily the trail has quite a bit of trees. I let go of my pace on my trail runs and just try to recover from the week's workout. I surprised myself on this one, an easy trail run was at a 8:59 pace!! All the tough trails, hill work and faster paces in MI over the past 2 weeks must've really paid off!! |
| Pearl Izumi Peak II Miles: 8.04 |
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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 | | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
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Holy toasty cow!!! I finally got a great, long, enjoyable nights rest, but that meant I allowed some heat to roll in before starting my run. I was targeting an easy 8:45 pace according to my training schedule. I went out with 4 full bottles of gatorade and finished up my run in the beating down sun at a 8:40 pace. For finishing up in the 90sF, that ain't too shabby!!! :)
PM crossfit
warmup: 500 m row
preWOD: 3x3x3x3x3 back squats, max 93 lbs WOD: 21, 15, 9 box jumps hand stand pushups Time: 4:56 PostWOD: 5 skin the cats |
| Nike Pegasus 29 Blue Miles: 10.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 9.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 9.00 | Weight: 119.80 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 5.58 | 2.00 | 0.50 | 1.44 | 0.00 | 9.52 |
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AM Crossfit: warmup: 500 m row PreWOD: find max snatch (55 lbs) WOD: 4 rounds 5 snatch (35 lbs) 200 m run Time: 4: 38 PM Speedwork. 1 mile warmup at 7:39 pace, drills, then 12x200m repeats. These were supposed to be 5k race pace. We went out with the "6 to 7 min" pace group but they were more like sub 6s. Dropping back to the slower group didn't fix the problem. With temps in the high 90s, how did I get these splits? 5:52/5:54/5:43/5:45/6:02/6:24/6:29/6:22/6:23/6:05/6:04/5:33. Ended with 6 miles easy. 9:18/8:30/8:19/8:04/8:18/8:15
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| Kinvara 2 Lime Miles: 0.50 | Brooks Pure Flow Purple - FL Miles: 9.02 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 9.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 9.00 | Weight: 119.20 |
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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 |
| Complete rest day!!! I'm in need of it too. Yay!! |
| Night Sleep Time: 8.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 8.00 | Weight: 118.60 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 1.00 | 0.00 | 6.01 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.01 |
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Blah threshold run. I should be targeting a 7:20 pace to BQ according to my training schedule. Chicago has been hotter than ever. I tried running at 6 am to avoid the heat, but it was still muggy and in the high 80s at the start. I started with a 8:50 warmup mile which felt like a 8:20 pace followed by 6 tempo miles 8:00/8:13/7:47/7:38/7:39/7:45. I punched my average pace into a temperature calculator, and it says that corresponds to a 7:30 pace at 60F. Close! I still got over 12 weeks of training so nothing to "sweat" about yet... PM Crossfit warmup 500 m row "Bradshaw"! 10 rounds 3 handstand pushups 6 deadlifts (53 lbs) 12 pullups 24 jump tucks Time: 16:06 PostWOD: 4x10 ring dips PHEW! |
| Brooks Pure Flow Purple - FL Miles: 7.01 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 5.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 5.00 | Weight: 120.40 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 12.00 | 4.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 16.00 |
| Hot, hot, hot! Chicago is so hot right now! I'm heading out of town so my options were to run in St. Louis Saturday morning, which is also hot!, or run Friday morning on a familiar, shaded path. I started running at 5 am at a feel like temp of 87 F and saturated conditions. It was tough, the humidity made it hard to breath but since I started so early I didn't feel the excess heat. It was 89 with a feel like of 93 F when I finished. I wasn't sure if I could keep 8:30 pace, and was willing to accept just the mileage under these conditions. Somehow I maintained a 8:19 pace! Really??? That feels so good. My previous training PR for a 16 miler was 9:40. :) |
| Nike Pegasus 29 Blue Miles: 16.00 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 8.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 8.00 | Weight: 121.60 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 8.09 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.09 |
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| Nike Pegasus 29 Blue Miles: 8.09 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 6.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 6.00 | Weight: 0.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 44.71 | 6.00 | 6.51 | 1.44 | 0.00 | 58.66 |
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| Pearl Izumi Peak II Miles: 8.04 | Nike Pegasus 29 Blue Miles: 34.09 | Kinvara 2 Lime Miles: 0.50 | Brooks Pure Flow Purple - FL Miles: 16.03 |
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| Night Sleep Time: 45.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 45.00 | Weight: 119.92 | |
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