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Laguna Hills Half Marathon

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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
93.604.007.001.000.00105.60
Weight: 134.80
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
5.000.000.000.000.005.00

5 with Jackie. Amber, and Flory.

SGM training officially started for me today!!! Now hopefully I get in! :)

Easy AP 9:09

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.000.003.000.000.006.00

1 mi. warm up and 1 mi. cool down

3x1600 7:15,7:36,7:23 2x800 recovery

I needed to run a 7:28 pace... as you can see I had a hard time finding it. This was my first speed workout since having the baby so it was really fun to do something different today. :) I really like speedwork. Some may think I am crazy but I really do like it.

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Jillian Micheals video with Jackie. 30 min.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
12.000.000.000.000.0012.00

12 nice easy miles with Ana and Flory. Took the pace nice and easy and had fun. We ran at night and it was a nice change although it got a bit scary when we ended our run at the river bottom!!! Lots a people sleeping in the bushes there!

AP 9:15

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
4.000.000.000.000.004.00

4 easy with  Jackie, Amy and Monica

AP 8:59

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
2.004.000.000.000.006.00

SGM HERE I COME!!!!!!! I GOT IN!!!!!!!!

Tempo run today. It felt great!!! The pace felt realitively easy for being a tempo run. I was supposed to keep my 4 tempo miles at 7:58

Splits: Warm up + cool down

10:20, 7:53, 7:55, 7:42, 7:30, 9:13

I love to RUN!!!  

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5.000.000.000.000.005.00

AM Weights 20 min.

PM 5 mi run with Ana AP: 8:25

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with jackie. Tired!

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Jillian Micheals video 25 min weights

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14.000.000.000.000.0014.00

Not sure of the AP but the last 4 mi were 8:20,8:06,8:08,8:11

Tried pushing the pace on tired legs. I felt pretty good but was definatley tired.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
6.000.000.000.000.006.00

Ran with Flory and Jackie

This week is a recovery low mileage week.

AP 8:40

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With Ana, Jackie, Flory and Monica

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
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Ran with Jackie, Flory, and Amy. It was a little rainy this morning but I love to run in the rain so it was perfect. Nothing like running in the rain in a tank top.

AP 8:47

According to my training plan I am supposed to be keeping all of my miles around 9:25 this week. It is supposed to be a rest week. Is it going to affect my training by running my rest miles too fast?

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.000.000.001.000.004.00

Did a warm up and cool down. In between I ran an all out mile...6:26

A few things I think about this mile... I could have run faster if it was on an actual track and I also could of run faster if it wasn't 80 degrees when I ran it. Still I am happy with 6:26 just think I could have run it 10-15 seconds faster in different conditions.

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5 easy with Amy and Jackie. Gearing up for speedwork tomorrow. :)

AP 9:20

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
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Speedwork out today!! I LOVE it!

1 mi each of warm up and cool down.

4 mi tempo 7:34, 7:42, 7:34, 7:28

After our run a bull dog came charging at us. We were all screaming and the fat dog walked away all proud of himself. It was pretty funny.

 

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Weights jillian micheals

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
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With Ana and Flory

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Weights with Jackie.

Jackie came over and we did a Jillian Micheals workout that we got out of a magazine. It was tough. Especially with the interuptions of the 4 of our 8 children who were with us.

I decided I am going to start posting my weight again for myself. It is finally not at an embarassing number following the birth of my angel. Still it needs to come down a bit. I would like to be around 125 for SGM. Not sure if that is possible for my body while I am breastfeeding but we shall see.

Weight: 134.80
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Race: Laguna Hills Half Marathon (13.1 Miles) 01:53:41, Place in age division: 19
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
13.100.000.000.000.0013.10

I'm not sure how I feel about the race. In a nut shell I didn't feel great but I didn't feel terrible... just a little off. I had to stop to use the bathroom which is always annoying. I went inro the race knowing I wasn't prepared to run a PR but I did want to run strong and feel good. I ran just OK. The last 4 miles were torcher!! I had to talk myself through every step. I wanted to walk so bad but didn't so I guess that is a bonus. This was good mental preparation for the marathon.

 Splits 8:38, 8:20, 8:03, 8:27, 8:20, 7:53, 7:54, 8:10, 8:22, 8:44, 9:17, 8:40, 9:07

 I stopped to go to the bathroom around mile 5.5 so you can see for  2-3 miles afterwards I was trying to make up some time but then I just burned out at the end. Oh well... live and learn.

 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
93.604.007.001.000.00105.60
Weight: 134.80
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