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February 2012

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Location:

Corona,CA,

Member Since:

Sep 08, 2008

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

2012 Irvine Half Marathon 1:38:20 

2012 Fontana Half Marathon  1:32:17                  

St. George Marathon                                                           2007-4:13:00

2008-3:45:07

2011-3:35:05     

2012-3:26:14

8 Total Marathons                                           

Short-Term Running Goals:

Perfect my diet to run better, stonger and faster!

Long-Term Running Goals:

Run 3:15 marathon.

Personal:

I have 4 kids, 2 boys and 2 girls. 11, 9, 6 and 2. I have been married to my guy for 13 years. He is great and so supportive of my running life. He is also very active, mostly weight training and he has run 2 half marathons as well. He is very fast without training too hard. 1:28 Half Marathon!!! I am working on being able to keep up with him. Someday when are kids are older we look forward to training together.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
119.100.009.003.000.00131.10
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
7.000.000.000.000.007.00

With Jackie, and Amy Ran Masters. Big Steep hill. Was easier than I remember:)

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With Ana, Jackie, Amy, and Jen. Jen was a little late and caught us after we had started running. She honked, parked in the street and started running. :)

Jackie and I always figure out what works best for us and then let the other ladies know when we are running and they are always invited. It has been a bit challenging to add new people to the group. Just different personalities and diffrent reason why each of us run and different goals. Some seem a bit competitive like wishing injuries on us so they will be able to catch up... not sure how to take those kind of comments. Just trying to give them the benefit of the doubt and keep doing my thing.

 Anyone else expericence situations when people want to run with you?

AP 8:32

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With Ana, Jackie and Amy

AP 8:40

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With Amy and Jackie. My knee felt a bit tight so I will Ice it.

AP 8:27

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
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 4 mile tempo tonight with 1 WU and 1 CD

Tempo splits 7:11, 7:09, 7:12, 7:10

It felt almost easy till about 2.5 then I had to talk my way through the end. Jackie and I are pretty evenly matched now so it is nice to have someone pushing me along.

Amy came too.

I iced my knee early today and I didn't noticed it on the run at all. :)

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With jackie and Amy. Amy had to get home so turned around early.

AP 8:40

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Didn't feel easy. I was tired from 14 yesterday.

AP 8:30

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With Amy, Jackie and Ana

AP 8:42

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
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3x1600 repeats. 800 recovery between.

Splits 6:34, 6:27, 6:26

Got a side cramp half way through 3rd one. It was really hard to run through it but I didn't want the girl behind me to catch me. :) My side is sore now and I know it will be tomorrow.

 

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With Ana

Leaving for Sacramento today to visit my in-laws.

Still need to pack 4 kids and myself.

AP 8:35

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The park by my in-laws as a path all the way around it that measures 1.4 miles.

My father in law came over with me and walked the opposite way so we would run into each other several times. It was nice to give him a high five each time I passed him.:)

Pace felt easy but was faster than my normal easy pace. I measure that up to the fact that I wasn't talking to anyone like I normally am and it was an entirely flat run which where I live I am always running up hill.

AP 7:55

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
7.700.000.000.000.007.70

Ran with my husband today. That is always a treat :) He slowed down for me so we could run and talk.

AP 8:09

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Tempo run tonight with Jackie and Ana. We all ran together for about 2.5 miles and then Ana got a side cramp and backed off a little. Jackie and I finished together.

Tempo Splits 7:13, 7:16, 7:18, 7:11, 7:15

Jackie's splits on the last two show 7:09 and 7:10 she was right by me.... why they are off I don't know.  I will keep my splits what my watch says

We wanted to average 7:20. Really happy we were able to do that. I felt great till around 3.5 miles in. Last 1.5 was hard but it was nice to have Jackie right there. We are really helping to push each other right now which is really nice.

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Ran with Ana, Jackie and Amy. Ana had to be home at 6 so we did 7 with her dropped her off at home and finished the rest. I got a new Jillian workout called..... "Killer Buns and Thighs". Between doing that video this week and my tempo run on Tues night today my legs were sooooo tired!

Walking up my stairs when I got home just about killed me. I got to the top and sat down for a rest. :)

AP 8:40

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With Amy. Jackie and Ana couldn't go this morning.

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This is our rest week which means no speedwork and nothing over 8 miles. :)

AP 8:38

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