| Location: Irvine,CA, Member Since: Jun 17, 2009 Gender: Female Goal Type: Boston Qualifier Running Accomplishments: PRed in Malibu Nov. 2009 with a 4:00:25, I think. Shy of sub-4 hours and shy of BQ 3:45.
Other marathon times:
May 2009: Orange County (4:21) and LA (4:15)
Feb. 2010: Surf City (4:09)
Took a couple years off from running in 2013-2014. Haven't done any marathons since 2011 though I started doing half marathons again in 2017. Short-Term Running Goals: Still want to qualify for Boston (3:55).
Want to qualify for the NYC Marathon by running a 1:42 half marathon.
Upcoming Races
Long Beach Half Marathon Oct. 8
Surf City Marathon Feb. 2018--I'm training to try to BQ. Long-Term Running Goals: I want to keep running marathons into my 70s. Personal: Keep close to Nature's heart...and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. --John Muir
I stole this from Tom's blog because I really like it:
Hudson tidbit: "When it's done right, the long-term training process is like an asymptote. The line that the training process moves toward but never reaches is 'perfect training'.....while it's impossible to train perfectly, it is possible to train better and better." Favorite Blogs: |
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| 2nd Nike Zoom Equalon 3 Miles: 121.20 | 5th Saucony Miles: 67.75 | Saucony Triumph 6 3rd Miles: 11.00 |
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| | 1:20 Felt great. Wanted to do 10 miles but didn't have time before work. |
| 2nd Nike Zoom Equalon 3 Miles: 8.40 |
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| | Did the exact same run I did yesterday because my Garmin tanked and I wanted to know how far I was running. Did it in about the same time but felt a little more sluggish today. Only slept about 6 hours. |
| 2nd Nike Zoom Equalon 3 Miles: 8.40 |
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| | Felt tired again after only getting 6 hours sleep again... Grrr. |
| 2nd Nike Zoom Equalon 3 Miles: 8.00 |
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| | Ran in the rain again and enjoyed my first 10+ run since Nov. |
| 2nd Nike Zoom Equalon 3 Miles: 13.00 |
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| | Only intended to run 8 miles today because I'm just planning to do 6 X 8 this week, but the day was so beautiful and I felt no pressure to finish sooner. I just kept running and did 10 in a casual 1:35. | |
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| | SLUGGISH this morning. Luckily, I did 10 miles yesterday, so I'm still ahead on my mileage this week. | |
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| | Felt better than yesterday, but I think I'll make tomorrow my rest day. Felt really happy running with no pain again today. :) | |
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| | 8 in about 1:14. A little faster than usual. As I was running, I considered the fact that I'm not doing any speed training in preparation for this next marathon. The reason is that I'm just trying to stay healthy going into this one, and I just want to get strong at running about 50 miles a week, nothing more. But then I thought, I could at least make some of the runs I'm already doing into tempo runs. So I picked up my pace in the second half of the run. | |
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Don't know my time for the first half mile--Garmin issue. But the last 8 miles, I ran in 1:09. Can't believe I was running that fast and felt great doing it. | |
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| | My knee was aching a little after yesterday's fastish run, but I still did my last 8 miles of the week to bring my total to right around 50 for the week and to meet my goal of 6 x 8 for the week. Yea!!!! It was a beautiful day, and I pondered the self-control I've learned to make myself stick to a meager 8 miles on a Saturday. I so wanted to run another 4 or 5, but I knew my body is cautioning me to take it easy. So I just enjoyed the run while it lasted and will look forward to tomorrow's run followed by a long bike ride with my boyfriend for Valentine's Day! |
| 2nd Nike Zoom Equalon 3 Miles: 8.00 |
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| | 1:47, a full minute slower average pace than my 8 miler on Friday, but I was trying to keep it slower, so good for me! I didn't run yesterday because I wanted to give more of my time to my boyfriend. We did a nice 20 mile bike ride. |
| 2nd Nike Zoom Equalon 3 Miles: 11.20 |
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| | Was TIRED when the alarm went off at 5am and DID NOT want to get out of bed. 5:09 I dragged myself out of bed. When I started my run, I felt TIRED and sluggish. Considered cutting the run short after a mile or so but knew it would mess with my day if I didn't get in a good run. So I sucked it up and got in my 8 miles. Felt fine by mile 5 anyway. So glad I did it!!!! | |
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| 2nd Nike Zoom Equalon 3 Miles: 8.00 |
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| | Internet is screwing with me. Screw it--only did 5 miles today anyway. |
| 2nd Nike Zoom Equalon 3 Miles: 5.50 |
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| | Ran with a new person this morning. Ten miles is farther than he's used to doing; in fact, it's double. But he was up for it, and he kept my pace. For me it was perfect. I hope he wants to do it again. We finished in about 1:40, a little slow, but it was nice. |
| 2nd Nike Zoom Equalon 3 Miles: 10.00 |
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Did my first hilly run in the new neighborhood. There's a big hill that's a mile up and a mile down, and I ran it out and back. Kept a pretty normal pace on it too. Felt fine and explored a little finding some trails that I'll check out next time. 8 miles in 1:15
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| 2nd Nike Zoom Equalon 3 Miles: 8.40 |
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| | 1:15 total with 9:01 avg. pace. I'm finding that without doing any long runs, my 8 mile runs are really too easy. It's hard for me to keep them slow because I keep speeding up. I hope that means I'm getting more endurance despite the lack of long runs. |
| 2nd Nike Zoom Equalon 3 Miles: 8.00 |
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| | Was running late so sped up and ended doing sub-8-minute milers. Ended in about 1:14. |
| Saucony Triumph 6 3rd Miles: 8.00 |
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| | The shin pain came back this morning, so I cut my run short. That felt frustrating, but I thought it was the smart thing to do. I may even take off tomorrow even though I already took off a day this week. I just don't want to keep running with the low-grade pain when I know it'll only get worse. And my marathon is 3 1/2 weeks away. |
| Saucony Triumph 6 3rd Miles: 3.00 |
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| | Didn't run in the morning because I needed sleep. Had a break in my day, so I decided to get 6 miles in. But it was really nice out, so I did 10 miles to try to make up a little of yesterday's lost mileage. The shin was fine today, but now one of my knees is aching--it must be because it's Thursday. Ha! Did the 10 in about 1:27. | |
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Legs felt a little dead. Not too much knee pain, but I only did 5 miles (47min.). Will try to do 10 tomorrow. That'll make this week a 10% decrease, but I'd been keeping it steady for about a month, so a little easing off is ok, I guess. Not really planning to taper for the marathon, so I'll try to do 50 miles again the next couple weeks before the big day.
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| | Was ready to run in the rain, but nature cut me some slack. It was dry most of my run, and I even took off the long sleeves. Felt good. No pain. And I had to hold myself back to keep from going under 9-minute miles. 1:45 total |
| 2nd Nike Zoom Equalon 3 Miles: 11.30 |
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| | Hilly run in 1:14 on a beautiful, sunny day. |
| 2nd Nike Zoom Equalon 3 Miles: 8.00 |
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| 2nd Nike Zoom Equalon 3 Miles: 121.20 | 5th Saucony Miles: 67.75 | Saucony Triumph 6 3rd Miles: 11.00 |
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