| 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 | | 29.37 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 29.37 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 4.35 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.35 |
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4 miles at an easy pace, shooting for a recovery pace which ended up being 8:38 min/mi. This is faster than my recovery pace pre-stress fracture. I don't know if I'm just faster or if I don't need to run recovery pace because my runs aren't at as high of intensity. I'll just go with it since it hurts to slow down. Finished with 30 mins on the AlterG in Chicago at 55% body weight 10 MPH. I think this AlterG is calibrated differently than the one in Hopkinton! My max hr avg was 85% and maxed out at 93%. Kinda like a lactate threshold run!!! |
| Saucony Cortana 2 Miles: 7.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| 6 nice and easy miles. 8:38 min/mi average pace then finished up with weights, PT, and core for 40 mins. |
| Saucony Cortana 2 Miles: 6.00 |
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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 |
| Bikram! Oh my goodness, I did so much better than last week!! I'm excited to see improvement in my strength and balance in my right foot and I can get deeper into my stretching too. :) |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 7.02 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.02 |
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Fartlek run. I wanted to start trying "half marathon pace" whatever that is. I didn't have a good plan, so did the first mile at 7:45 pace then slowed down to try 2-3 half marathon pace miles at the end. I was scared and pacing with my good, old running partner, so naturally when we started the "half marathon pace miles" we started out at a 6:50ish pace. We pulled back, but the first mile ended up being 7:15 pace. I know I'm not at that fitness for a half now. She asked if I wanted to do another mile, I said of course, but could only make it another 0.5 mile. We stopped I finished hyperventilating and we cooled down back to the cars. Overall pace: 8:05 min/mi for 7 miles. I'm not bummed for screwing up this workout. I don't know what's going on with my body. 7:15 is my fastest mile post-stress fracture and that was near the end of a 7 mile run...just 3 weeks after returning to running. Did some quick exercises: pushups, airsquats, side leg raises and 6 mins of planks. Drove to MI to hang with family for the weekend. 1 round trip walk to the fireworks was at least 2 miles.
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| Saucony Cortana 2 Miles: 7.02 |
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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 on the alterg at 55% body weight and 10 MPH. My inner thighs are super sore from air squats yesterday. Accumulated 1 really bad blood blister and 1 ok normal blister on this run?! |
| Saucony Cortana 2 Miles: 5.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 12.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.00 |
| 12 miles of humbling slowness in MI. I have a list of excuses: back stiffness/spasming from sleeping on grandma's sofa couch, first run with 4 water bottles, a slightly hillier course than desired, sore inner thighs from Thursday, for running a 8:51 min/mi long run. I am mentally struggling after this run. This is a much, much slower pace than what I've run a long run in in a long time. 12 miles is a lot of distance after running for only 3 weeks, but I just can't help but think about where I was at back in March/April. My legs felt like they ran a marathon after this run. It makes me feel so pathetic. But, I have to focus on where I'm going not where I've been. You have to experience the lows to feel the highs. Besides, this is a time of base building - I don't want to peak until mid-November. This run completed 29 miles for me this week (excluding alterg running). Not too shabby for completing my 3rd week of running. |
| Saucony Cortana 2 Miles: 12.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 29.37 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 29.37 |
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| Saucony Cortana 2 Miles: 37.02 |
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