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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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Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	0.00

Sat, Aug 01, 2009

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Crosstraining miles	Total Miles
2.00	3.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	5.00

I was supposed to run with my neighbor Julianna today but her baby still hadn't woken up and she needed to hang around to feed her. SO.. I ran solo today and it was really nice. Somedays you just need to be in your own head.

I decided I would work on my turnover. I told myself to let my legs do the work.. think about form and think about my legs going just a bit faster. I was really pleased with the results considering that I really haven't been running a ton of miles lately. I was also a little suprised the speed did not feel to hard. Yeah!!!

Noboday passed me today!!! There was a guy who came up on me close to the end of my run but I started talking to him so he couldn't pass me. I am SNEAKY!!!

Splits (warm up and cool down miles)

9:13, 7:49, 7:47, 7:46, 8:59

Weight: 0.00

Comments

From RivertonPaul on Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 12:54:01 from 75.169.33.207

I often enjoy counting turnover, if for nothing else to kill time.

From Britta on Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 15:19:11 from 72.130.108.181

Riverton Paul, How does one count turnover. Do you count per minute or mile or something else?

BTW have you run into Alisa Dunn lately?

From RivertonPaul on Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 11:58:26 from 67.42.27.114

Britta, most things I've read say to shoot for a turnover around 180 per minute, so they suggest counting each time your left (or right) leg and then doubling. I usually just count for 30 seconds, and hit about 47 /48 strides.

Sorry, I've not seen Alisa for sometime. Her parents are in my ward, though.

From Cal on Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 12:06:53 from 66.133.117.3

Nice pace on your speedy miles Britta. Good job!

From Leandra on Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 14:29:09 from 71.213.99.126

nice pace, speed demon! And that's a really sneaky trick, I might have to use that sometime! :)

From Burt on Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 14:27:30 from 68.76.197.194

You little sneaks. I would totally stop, too. Now I know.

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