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2008
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Location:

Washington,DC,USA

Member Since:

May 01, 2008

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

One marathon: 4:08; Half marathon PR: 1:48:30; Ten-miler PR: 1:23; 8k PR: 39:00; 10k PR: 46:51

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

Lose 10 lbs. to get in shape to run faster and --> Qualify for Boston!

Race calendar:

May 18: Capitol Hill Classic 10k (50:23)

June 14: Lawyers Have Heart 10k (48:20)

July 12: Caribbean Sounds 10k (50:23)

July 14: Bastille Day 4-miler (30:55)

July 27: Riley's Rumble 1/2 Marathon (1:48:30)

(Stress fracture/broken jaw break)

Nov 9: Veteran's day 10k (46:51!!!)

Nov 27: Alexandria Turkey Trot 5-miler

Dec 6: Gar Williams 1/2 marathon

Dec 14: Jingle All the way 10k

February 14, 2009: Myrtle Beach marathon? (goal: 3:40!!!)

Long-Term Running Goals:

Finish a 1/2 Ironman before I'm 40 years old

Finish 10 marathons in 4:00 hrs or less by the time I'm 40 years old.

Run the JFK 50-miler

Personal:

Just another single 30-year old Argentine girl living the American dream in Washington DC and trying to run faster. Graduated from Southern Utah University in 2003, then moved to DC. I have a full-time job as research economist for an association in the transportation industry and I'm attempting to get my Master's degree in Economics from Johns Hopkins, part-time, while keeping my sanity!

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Biked to the swimming pool, aqua jogged and ran in the shallow part of the pool for 50 minutes and swam for 10 minutes. One of the lifeguards twisted his ankle really bad coming down from the high chair and they had to call the paramedics, poor guy, his ankle was really in bad shape and he was in pain. I met a fast runner who was also jogging without an aqua belt, he races 5k's but he had a hip injury. It was nice to chat with someone, made the time go by faster.

After work, I went to Ballston to get a sports massage - my first massage ever. It was nice. The guy is also a certified coach and works exclusively with women. He made a plan for me to get back into running after my injury that starts me by running 1 minute and walking 2, and increasing the run time progressively... over 10 weeks!!! He has me running for 20 minutes after 10 weeks of going back into it!!! It's just crazy! I told him no way - and then he said ok, maybe since I've been doing other types of exercise I should start on week 5 of his plan, which means starting to run for 4 minutes and walking 1 minute, and increasing to 20 minutes in 5 weeks... still, I really think that is waaaaay too conservative. My thought was that I would be able to do a long run of 10 miles after 4 weeks... I really feel so strong, I haven't really had a lot of pain in my leg (nothing even close to unbearable) which makes me think the fracture was in the very beginning stages and not very serious, and I'm taking the maximum time off from running that they recommend, 8 weeks, and I've been cross-training like a fish! I'm going to look for other opinions... I may end up not doing the Phoenix RNR marathon in January though, and run Austin in February instead...

Here's what I think I should do... starting with 10 miles/week and increasing to 45 miles/week during 9 weeks.

 Week of:  Running: Approx total weekly mileage
 (1) Oct 6 5 min run, 5 min walk, total 30 min running per day every other day, x-train all other days.   10
 (2) Oct 13 10 min run, 5 min walk, total 40 min running per day every other day, x-train all others  15
 (3) Oct 20 10 min run, 5 min walk for 1 hour every other day, x-train all other days  20
 (4) Oct 27  20 min run, 5 min walk for 1 hour, 4 days a week, x-train all others  25
 (5) Nov 3 10 min run, 1 min walk for 1 hour, 5 x week  30
 (6) Nov 10  No more walking breaks, run 5x week  32
 (7) Nov 17  same  35
 (8) Nov 24  same  40
 (9) Dec 1  Run every day  45

 

 

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Comments
From marion on Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 12:49:36

I do not know stress fractures AT ALL, but I think more like you are thinking. You really want to look at other oppinions. Is your orthoped a sports injury guy? With my calf, i was really surprised at who fast he said I could be back to full mileage. he said 4 weeks tops. I'm taking 8 cause I am a chicken :) You for sure do not want to get reinjured, but you have conciderable fitness and training. You get some more GREAT information and then make your own choice.

Your workout was awesome! Was the massage good?

From Aaron-PSU on Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 15:50:16

You motivate me....enough said.

From Lucia on Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 15:57:09

Marion, the massage was very good. My doctor sees college runners all the time, so he may be able to tell me. They often don't take me seriously though, cause I'm not running for college, etc., so they don't realize how much not being able to run affects my life. We'll see what he says.

Aaron, 12 more days and you'll have your running companion back (the less cute and less hairy one, hahaha!)

From Metcalf Running on Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 21:12:40

Lucia, I worry that you are being to aggressive with your goals. Maybe I'm a worrier, but you don't want to re-injure your shin and be in the pool another 8 weeks. You have your entire life to run and accomplish all your running goals. My advise is get another opinion, and take it a bit slower then you would like in the beginning just to make sure you feel OK.

Lori

From Aaron-PSU on Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 09:37:17

Lucia, I look forward to the day that we can run together again. Yes, my four-footed/hairy companion may be cute but he's scared of storm drains and tends to plop his butt down near them! I don't think you have that problem.

From Lucia on Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 09:55:01

Lori, thank you for your comment - you may be right, and that's why it's good to hear what other people think. I value your input and will get other opinions like you suggested, thank you!

Aaron, I don't have that problem yet - maybe in a few years ;)

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