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Location:

Sydney,Australia

Member Since:

Oct 24, 2012

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

PRs

10K: 42:07 (NYC Runs Roosevelt Island Hot Chocolate, December 2012)

Half Marathon: 1:30:23 (Philadelphia RnR Half Marathon, Sept 2013)

Marathon: 3:17:13 (New Jersey Marathon, May 5, 2013)

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

1:30 half marathon, Summer 2013

sub-3:30 marathon (my first) Spring 2013

sub 3:15 marathon, Fall 2013

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

Run long. Get fast. Stay injury free.

Personal:

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Mizuno Inspire 8s Lifetime Miles: 377.00
Brooks Pure Cadence Lifetime Miles: 40.00
Mizuno Inspire 9s Lifetime Miles: 398.10
Black Mizuno Inspire 9s Lifetime Miles: 432.20
Yellow Mizuno Wave Rider 15s Lifetime Miles: 490.50
Brooks Pure Cadence 2 Lifetime Miles: 218.82
Red Mizuno Wave Rider Lifetime Miles: 403.00
Blue Mizuno Inspires Lifetime Miles: 405.00
Blue Mizuno Inspires 2 Lifetime Miles: 300.00
Red Mizuno Wave Riders 2 Lifetime Miles: 252.00
Black Brooks Pure Cadence Lifetime Miles: 29.00
Mizuno Inspire 12s Lifetime Miles: 69.00
Mizuno Inspire 12s Coral Lifetime Miles: 32.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
34.005.000.003.0042.00
Mizuno Inspire 9s Miles: 25.00Mizuno Inspire 8s Miles: 9.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.000.000.000.0010.00

Easy miles on the tready at the gym, 1% incline at around 8:20 pace. I much prefer running outside, but it was 25 degrees with some serious wind, and I didnt want my face frozen off.

Did the majority of my first strength workout, targeted to my gluts. Already feel the difference; Im experiencing no more hamstring twinges at all. I think the exercises serve to release the piriformis, as much as it does strengthen; and that in turn gives all the muscle around the sciatic nerve a rest.

Includes: squats, jump squats, lunges, jump lunges, deadlifts (light weights), single-leg squats and jump-squats, core work (push ups, crunches, planks, plank-rows), burpees and upper body strength stuff combined with some squats and one-legged balance work. 

I finished it all except the burpees, as I knew my core and quads were plenty worked out by the end, and I was too fatigued to carry on.

Mizuno Inspire 9s Miles: 10.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.000.000.000.007.00

Easy miles around 8:10 pace. Muscles still sore from strength training on Sunday!

Mizuno Inspire 9s Miles: 7.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.000.000.003.008.00

Speed! Treadmill, 1% incline.

8x600s at 6:22 (5k ish pace I think) with 400m jog recoveries. 

This was surprisingly hard! Not quite as quickly over as the 400m repeats, but almost as fast....looking forward to the slightly longer slower repeats coming up on the plan - I forgot (from training for Vegas) how hard these things are. I was totally freaking out (unnecessarily) about it all day. Its the only workout I allow myself to listen to music to! But done and done.

Mizuno Inspire 9s Miles: 8.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
3.005.000.000.008.00

Tready run-lunch....runch! 

 Ooph, this was a hard one. Five-mile tempo. 1% incline. 

2 miles easy, 2miles @ 7:19, 2 miles @ 7:13, 1 mile @ 7:08, 1 mile easy.

Not sure why this felt so hard. Running on the treadmill is easier for speed, I feel, but absolutely blows on tempo running.7:08 felt like 6:50 outside.

Thinking about readjusting marathon goal. Not sure where to aim for. Without wanting to inflate myself, my racing times just dont reflect my fitness right now, Im sure of it.

Then again, I really dont feel like I can run 7:10 for 26.2! Any other ways to test preparedness to run the big one at a certain pace? I need another race soon to test my fitness!


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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
9.000.000.000.009.00

Easy miles, around 8:30. Running a half marathon tomorrow, so wanted to take it easy. I'll be running it as a long run, not racing. I decided this at the beginning of the week, because my legs are fatigued from the training Ive done so far, and racing this would definitely take me out of commission for at least a week. Plus, this way I can run it with a friend, and dont have to worry about all the nutrition/bathroom etc stuff you normally do for a race. 

Oh yeah, and did I mention that its around Central Park (ie really hilly) and there were 25mph winds forecast? May have had something to do with my decision :)

Mizuno Inspire 8s Miles: 9.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
34.005.000.003.0042.00
Mizuno Inspire 9s Miles: 25.00Mizuno Inspire 8s Miles: 9.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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