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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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Mile repeats today with Jackie... 

Jackie said every time after we finished a repeat she wanted to swear and would say to herself..."Son of a B". Made me laugh because I felt the same way. 

Today we worked on making our recoveries not last so long. We have a way of dragging them out. So we kept them to just walking a quarter mile after each. Seemed appropriate.

The first repeat was fine. My watch read 6:19 and Jackie's read 6:16.. we were right next to each other.

Second one HORRIBLE it was SUPER painful... we didn't rest long enough either. My watch 6:16 Jackies 6:13 again we were next to each other.

Third was fine.... I didn't look at my watch at all and told myself to just run my best. My watch 6:26 Jackies 6:21. She wasn't that far ahead of me so I am counting it as 6:23

4th hard but ok... again didn't really look at watch told myself to run as relaxed and strong as I could. My watch 6:27 Jackies 6:19 we finished at the same time though.

So I will just average my times with Jackie's watch since we ran side by side for each repeat except for the 3rd.

6:18, 6:15, 6:23, 6:23

Was going for 6:20-6:25

Should have taken the first two a touch slower and maybe could have averaged each at 6:20.

Glad it is over... mile repeats are my least favorite speedwork out.

Now off to finish painting my girls room.... tedious work with a two yr old helper. Wish me luck!  

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Comments
From Kam on Wed, May 01, 2013 at 13:13:20 from 68.66.163.179

Do you complete your repeats on a track or road? Those are nice times. It's so easy to let the recovery phase ssssttttrreeetttttcccccchhhhhhh out. Sry abt tht.

From Britta on Wed, May 01, 2013 at 14:11:20 from 99.107.166.81

On the road. We run around a park. It ends up being a square. I imagine if we were on a track they would be closer to 6:25. There is some down hill in the begining and up hill at the end. Not sure if it all evens out in the end.

From Kam on Wed, May 01, 2013 at 14:14:57 from 68.66.163.179

I would say it all evens out. I have a paved trail that's mostly straight and dead flat, including mile markers every half mile. It's great for 1-3 mile repeats. I think your timing differences are probably due to button pushing discrepancies. Even if you take the higher numbers, those are top shelf miles. Nice job.

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