| Location: Waldorf,MD,United States Member Since: Jul 18, 2010 Gender: Female Goal Type: Marathon Finish Running Accomplishments: Several half marathons: PR 1:59:12
3 Full: PR 4:38:10
Did a 50th b-day run/ride. Ran 22 miles, then rode 28 miles. Took me 7 hours but I conquered 50 miles in honor of that milestone birthday. Short-Term Running Goals: April 12, 2014 St. Charles 10 miler
May 4, 2014 Flying Pirate 5K & Half Marathon (doing both)
September 12-13, 2014 Ragnar Run (200 mile relay)
October, 2014 Woodrow Wilson Bridge Half Marathon
Long-Term Running Goals: stay healthy...stay strong...stay happy!
Race at least 3 times a year (1 full marathon / 2 half marathons) Personal: Married for 30 years. 2 kids (28 & 20). One beautiful grandson! Favorite Blogs: |
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| | Ran 5 miles on the rail trail. AP: 9:57. Nice cool morning. Seeing fewer grasshoppers, which is nice. This is my "easy week" according to my training schedule. No speedwork...yeah...I like slow and steady. I'm like the turtle in the story, 'Turtle and the Hare'. |
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| | Nice overcast morning with an occasional drizzle. Ran around the neighborhood while my niece rode her bike. My niece is suffering with an ingrown toenail (ouch), so we cut things short so she could get her shoes off. |
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| | What a nice cool morning. It's amazing how much nicer the run is when you are not sweltering in heat and humidity. My niece joined me on the rail trail again with her bike. I am looking for a bike now so we can do some long bike rides together. She is not getting enough speed up to get a good work out because she is going at my running pace. I have been encouraging her to ride ahead and loop back so she can get more miles and speed. I'm excited about running with QP in a couple of days. I will be bringing the pirates treasure I found on my run a couple of weeks ago. |
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| | 4 miles in the hood then off to see my friend! No time to blog... must be on my way. |
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| | Had a wonderful run in the heat and humidity with my good friend, QP. I found a road kill frog which she promptly took a picture of. Later in our run QP yells SNAKE! We both jumped from the edge of the road into the middle (thank goodness no traffic at the time). It wasn't until after we passed that we noticed the snake was squished in the middle (aka...road kill). We did not stop for a photo op but QP discussed how that snake was alive last time she passed it (glad it wasn't this time). Got back to her house and she treated me to a delicious blueberry protein smoothy then off to the peach stand to buy fresh peaches :) yum |
Asics Gel Nimbus 12 Miles: 6.00 |
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Asics Gel Nimbus 12 Miles: 6.50 |
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| | Spin class this morning. We did something called a "fat burn" class, which is hard and steady for 45 minutes. This is my favorite kind of class because sometimes my instructor gets spin crazy (out of control, crazy fast). My controls said I went 20 miles. Hope I have something left for my long run tomorrow. |
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| | Thank goodness it was a nice cool morning because I turned my alarm off and didn't get out until almost 9:00. Went to the rail trail and enjoyed the wildlife. I saw a doe feeding her twin fawns, a turtle sunning himself, a hawk, and lots of grasshoppers again. Did six miles out then turned around to head back. At mile 10 I caught up to a girl heading in my direction. She was walking so I stopped and asked her how many miles she had to go and she said 2 ... I said "me too" :) I asked her if she wanted to do the last 2 miles together and she was game, so we introduced ourselves and hit the pavement. I was so happy to have someone get me through the last two miles because it is a slight upgrade the whole way. The 11th mile was my best time! When we got back to our cars we parted ways with the satisfaction of knowing we did it! |
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| | Easy run in the hood between downpours. Downloaded some new songs on my shuffle so I was excited to get out and listen to them while running. I can tell my endurance is slowly building since I've increased my weekly mileage. Slow and steady. I'm hoping I can keep a 9 min pace for my 10k in 2 weeks. Guess I better focus on my speedwork (my least favorite part of training). AP: 9:49 |
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| | Another 3 easy in the hood. AP 10:09. Making oatmeal cookies now...thinking they will be great as a carbo load for my speed work tomorrow :) |
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| | Speedwork on the rail trail today. Beautiful morning! We slept with the windows open last night. It's 8:30 now and only 70 degrees...Love it! AP: 9:39 10:37, 8:41, 9:06, 9:08, 9:56, 10:24 I wanted to keep miles 2,3,&4 under 9 minutes. I succeeded with mile 2 and was really close on 3 and 4, maybe next time :) |
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| | Too much sweet tea with dinner. Decided to run 2 miles at dusk. Felt good, carried my mace, no earphones or watch (don't want to give anyone a reason to jump me). Now to feast on some rice pudding (carbs for tomorrows spinning class:) |
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| | Spinning class today. Had a different instructor and she kicked my butt. I have found that I have lost my spinning butt since I haven't been spinning regularly. It was very painful to sit today :( Gonna have to keep spinning until the nerve ending die in my tushie. |
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| | 9 miles with my niece. I ran while she rode her bike. We did hills and wooded trails. It was a beautiful cool morning so we were glad we got up early. We planned on doing 13 miles today but my knee tweaked at 9 miles so I stopped for a second then tried again and it tweaked again so I decided to stop and call it a day. I iced it on the way home and have no other problems all day. I'm hoping I stopped fast enough so I won't have an issue when I run again on Monday. I have a 10K next Saturday so I think I'll take it a little easier this week coming. |
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| | My niece ran for about 1/4 mile this morning. she wants to start building up her running distance. She has asthma so we are taking it slow. She plays soccer every year without having an attach so her mom is confident she can run. I got a nice bike rack for my car, now I just need a bike. Have been shopping around but have not found what I want yet. I am going to look at a local pawn shop today (you never know what you might find). My knee felt good this morning. I have a 10K on Saturday so I will be taking it easy this week.Back to work tomorrow. Mornings are going to get earlier. |
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| | 4 in the hood then off to work:) |
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| | Spinning o^o Fun! |
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Didn't run my 10k in Chaptico, MD today because we left last night for New Jersey so we didn't have to drive in the hurricane. We were originally going to leave after my 10k but plans changed. I had to improvise so I ran my 10k on the treadmill in the hotel this morning :) I did most of the run at my race pace of 9:05 (except for warm up and cool down). Hope everyone is being safe. I am about 28 miles from the Jersey Shore. The eye is expected to go over us around 2am tomorrow morning.
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| | School cancelled because of hurricane damage (this would have been the first day of school). Mostly power outages and down trees. Flooding not really an issue for our area. Ran 5 miles on Rosewick which contains good hills. Temperature was in the low 70's and not humid. Beautiful morning for our 1st "snow day" used. |
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| | AP: 10:00 Met my niece this morning. Ran around the neighborhood. We are both excited about the 1st day of school today and had trouble sleeping last night. The run seemed easy as thoughts of the day to come flooded my brain. I am excited about teaching 1st grade. |
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