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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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Wed, Aug 31, 2011

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Crosstraining miles	Total Miles
1.00	0.00	8.00	0.00	0.00	9.00

Tempo run this morning. I put them in Threshold miles... I think that is where they belong.

Was supposed to Average 7:47 and I averaged that exactly. I am happy I hit my overall average but dissapointed my splits were not more consistent around 7:47.

7:44, 7:59, 7:55, 7:44, 7:51, 7:41, 7:42, 7:33

Ana taught me how to make Brazilian rice and Beans in my pressure cooker. I can't wait for dinner! My kitchen smells so GOOD!

Weight: 128.40

Comments

From Burt on Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 18:49:44 from 206.19.214.144

Cook your little heart out Britta!

From Calvin on Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 02:19:28 from 66.182.67.219

That's a really nice average pace there Britta. Looking good.

From Britta on Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 13:41:53 from 99.101.128.14

Cal,

I feel like I could have done maybe 10 miles at the pace. It would have been hard but could have done it. Knowing that what do you think about my marathon goal pace as 8:10? Secretly or not so secretly I keep thinking about 3:29 instead of 3:35 In your experience what do I need to be able to do in trainig in order to hit a certain pace in the marathon?

From Calvin on Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 13:57:39 from 209.23.216.3

If you could hold those paces for 10 miles, then its probably within a few seconds of 1/2 marathon pace, which should be maybe 15-20 seconds per mile faster than your full marathon pace (on similar terrain).

Given the somewhat downhill nature of St. George, i think you're right there in the 3:29 to 3:35 range.

From Britta on Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 19:03:26 from 99.101.128.14

The course I ran was almost completley flat so I am really hoping I can pull 3:29. That would be soooo exciting. I am getting nervous... we will see if I have what it takes.

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