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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
141.2536.5015.000.000.00192.75
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.004.000.000.008.00

800's today felt pretty "easy".

3:10, 3:10, 3:11, 3:10, 3:09, 3:09, 3:09, 3:06

Did them on the track..... I am really enjoying runnin on the track:)

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
8.000.000.000.000.008.00

Ap 8:22

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SO HOT and HUmid this morning. I felt ok until 7 miles and the last 2 were pretty bad. 

AP 7:32 slower than I would like but great considering the weather and breathing conditions.

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8.000.000.000.000.008.00

Jonathan and I stayed at the Bel Air Hotel in LA last night. SO FUN!!!! We ran over to UCLA and ran on their track this morning. 

I made it 6 miles before I couldn't breath and then walked 2 back to the Hotel. Should have brought my inhaler. 

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Felt ok still not breathing well. Was supposed to run 22. 17-20 was a walk run for me. Jackie ran ahead and came back to pick me up. 

Need to take care of my lungs. :(

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Ran UP Skyline today!!! Made the whole way with no walk breaks!!!!!!!!!! First time ever!

Skline is a mountain trail a few miles from my house. It is brutal it never evens out. We went up for 4 and then came down. 

Wasn't sure I would even be able to run at all today consdering the way my asthma has been acting up.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
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Easy 8 after yesterdays moutnain run. Don't remember pace.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
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Speedwork today. We did a 3,2,1 mile workout with .5 recovery in between each. 

Just going off memory but our splits were

7:17, 7:10, 6:56, 7:10, 6:57, 6:44

We finsihed on the track and Jackie and I duked it out to the bitter end. I wanted to throw up from our last 200 sprint. It was FUN! 

So glad my lungs are feeling sooo much better this week.

Courtney and Jeremy came too.

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We have been doing a marathon Pace run once a week. Typically fridays. Today was the kind of day us runners live for. One of those days where running felt GREAT and the pace was "easy" to maintain. All I could think about all day was how I wanted to run again.

With Jackie, Courtney and Jeremy

AP 7:18

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12.000.000.000.000.0012.00

Legs were pretty tired from yesterdays pace run

With Jackie

AP 8:24

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
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6 with Jackie.. she is sick... I was impressed she made it... I would have stayed in bed. :)

2 alone

AP 8:15

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Mile repeats.. Great workout. Courtney Meldrum has been running with us for speedworkouts and pace runs. LOVE having her!!! She is amazing an so motivating/encouraging. She has really helped me to believe in myself and taught me how to push myself more than I thought I could.

LOVE her!!!

6:30, 6:23, 6:26, 6:23, 6:15

We have been doing speed on the track and that has been so fun!!! 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
8.000.000.000.000.008.00

With jackie. Really didn't want to get out of bed:)

AP 8:24

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
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Did our last pace run today. Felt fine. Not great but not bad;). Never felt like I wanted to quit... felt strong. 

Took half a gu at mile 7.

AP 7:11

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Eventful run. Started at 4:30 with a coyote. I kept making lots of noise so he would know I was there and not try to eat me. Met Jackie .5 mile into the run. 

Avoided being murdered at the our bathroom break at the park around mile 5. But just barely!!

Almost got hit by a car at dawn around mile 11. 

The last 11 were a bit more boring. The last 7 I felt great!!! I kept keeping myself busy with thinking of new thing to talk about with Jackie so we wouldn't think about the miles. 

Finished our last mile off at 7:36. It always feels nice to finish strong.  

Took half a gu at miles 7 and 18. Drank more gatorade than water cause I had a hard time getting the gu's down today. 

We always start out so slow... our last 7 were 8:15 and under. 

AP 8:24

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
6.000.000.000.000.006.00

Easy with Jack. Feeling really excited about SGM. 

AP 8:10

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Easy with Jack

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6x800's with 400 recovery between each. 

3:09, 3:09, 3:09, 2:59, 3:00, 2:53

Courtney challenged us to run faster on the last 3. It was hard but doable. Love having her there to push us. 

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A little faster than MP. Ran with Courtney and Jeremy. 

Talked the whole time. It was a little harder with talking but still felt really strong.

Splits 7:11, 7:07, 7:09, 7:13, 7:03

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
8.000.000.000.000.008.00

With Ana. She wasn't feeling well so we stopped A LOT!

AP 8:19

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Easy with Jackie..Getting excited for SGM. Not too many nerves.

AP 8:14

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