| 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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It was another beautiful (hot and humid, a little) day in Washington DC - I decided to take the day off from running, after yesterday's disaster... so I metroed and biked to Alexandria, 6 miles, to my first bicycle maintenance class. It was pretty cool - soon I will be able to fix my own bike, and "pimp my ride" :)
I'll be tapering this week, cause I've had 4 weeks of 50-ish miles... I feel like I need to take a breather. And since I just bought a new bike, I can sometimes run to work and bike back and vice versa, and give my running muscles a break.
It's going to be a great week! |
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| | 400 m race pace | 800 m race pace | 1500 m race pace | 3 K race pace | 5 K race pace | 10 K race pace | Lactic Threshold | Aerobic Threshold | Marathon Pace | Base II | Base I | Regeneration | Total Miles | | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 | 2.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 9.00 |
| Biked to work this morning on my awesomely smooth new bike, and decided to run home after work - again, storms were forming and we had some wonderful rain thoughout the 6 miles home. Another huge double rainbow formed again, in the same spot as the other day! It was beautiful. Then the sun came out for the last part of the run. I got home and picked up my friend's keys and ran over to her house and back for a total of 9 miles for the day, a bit more than I wanted but good quality miles - it's weird how long it takes me to get warmed up, it took me almost 5 miles to feel good, and the last 4 miles I was going pretty fast. The top of my left foot hurt a bit, as if I was getting tendonitis... hopefully not. My right shin hurt a little at first but not in the end. |
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| Ran home from work at sunset - a beautiful sunset. Not a good run though, my knees were in pain at first, then my left foot hurt a lot and I had to stop with 1/2 a mile to get home... I think I have tendonitis on top of my left foot, right where the foot and the leg meet... I'm going to take tomorrow off and bike only, to see if it feels better... PLEASE feel better little (ehem... I mean big) left foot! |
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| Took the day off, as many fellow bloggers suggested, to see if the pain in the tendon goes away... Biked home, 6 miles, and did some stretching and strengthening exercises. |
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Day 2 of rest... Biked to work, then to school, then back home. Nice day, a bit on the hot side. Mannnn I really want to run! I feel like I haven't gone for a run in years, and it's only been 2 days! I'm tempted to give it a shot tomorrow morning and run to work - if my tendon hurts, I can jump on the metro... everything I've been reading indicates I have anterior tibialis tendonitis... and that I should rest until it stops hurting, the thing is I don't have pain really except when I run... Maybe I'll be strong and wait till Monday - Patience is not my best quality...
On other news... tomorrow is Friday! |
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| Reaaaaally itching to run today, but decided to take more time off - I'm having these weird pain in my left knee... Biked to work and back. |
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Went hiking to Shenandoah with 6 friends, including fellow blogger Aaron. We did the White Oak Canyon/Cedar Run loop, and it was great! We were going slow because some people in the group weren't in good shape, and then someone had a shoe issue (they brought brand new hiking shoes on their first hike ever on a strenuous 8 mile hike!) So it took us a total of 7 hours to hike BUT that includes stopping to take lots of pictures, and, more importantly, to stop and enjoy the water! The hike has some great swimming holes to jump into, and some rock slides to slide into more great swimming holes! The water was COLD but that's part of the fun, right? I think everyone had fun, and that's what matters. We had to share some of the jumps and slides with other hikers and families, but they were nice.
Excellent day, and the perfect warmup for finally a run tomorrow! |
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