| Location: London,UK Member Since: Jan 02, 2006 Gender: Female Goal Type: Age Division Winner Running Accomplishments: Collegiate: 100m - 13.2 (1985) 200m - 27.0 (indoors, 1989) 400m - 62.3 (indoors, 1989) Post-Collegiate: 5K - 21:37 (1998) 5mi - 35:15 (1998) 10K - 45:04 (1998) 15K - 1:11:36 (2006) 20K - 1:35:34 (2006) Half - 1:42:03 (2007) Marathon - 3:37:04 (Cal International, 2000) Short-Term Running Goals: Get my weekly mileage in the 35-40 range.
Long-Term Running Goals: I guess at this point I just want to keep running for fitness and weight control. Personal: I was born in Moscow, Russia in '68, where I started running sprint events in '83. I moved to the US (NYC area) in '91 and didn't run again till '96 when I discovered road racing scene. I was hooked after my first 5K race. I had another break in running from '01-'04 and decided to seriously get back into it in August of '05. I'm married and have 16 year old daughter. I have moved to London in August '06, will probably stay here for a few years. |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 30.95 | 0.00 | 2.50 | 1.35 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 34.80 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 6.55 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.80 |
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The forecast was right on, and it's been raining non stop since yesterday. But I found partial clearing and quickly got out to maybe sneak my run in before it starts raining again. I almost succeeded - it was drizzling, but not bad, really.
My legs felt a little tight after yesterday, so I just took it easy, and then finished with 4x100m strides on the track. From all the rain, the cinder surface of the track got very soft, and it felt like running in the sand, my feet were sinking a bit.
Total time: 56:10 (8:54 pace), not counting strides. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 5.45 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.45 |
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Rain, rain and more rain. Third day in a row, and this time I couldn't find an opening when it rained less. Not a fun run, cold, windy and wet. It was just about getting my miles in and getting out of there as soon as I could. Temps only in mid 40s. My hands were freezing, so I tucked them into my sleeves and didn't look at my watch the whole run, which was probably for the best. Just ran easy, except maybe in the end, where I sped up a little just to be done sooner - I was really cold.
Total time: 48:20 (8:52 pace). | | Comments(1) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 4.75 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.20 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.95 |
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Only got 4 hours of sleep last night. I was falling asleep all day at work, especially in one boring meeting. REALLY didn't want to go runnning, but also didn't want to miss a day. So dragged myself outside and did about 5 miles. Felt very sluggish, legs felt like wood. Threw in 4x100m strides in the middle to try to wake up, but it didn't really work. I'm going to bed in about an hour.
Total time: 45:54 (9:16 pace). | | Comments(1) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 4.10 | 0.00 | 2.50 | 0.70 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.30 |
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CV reps workout at the track. I felt fine, but my times were significantly slower than last week. I first felt it on 4x200m strides in the warmup - I ran 51, 52, 52, 51 and it felt hard! Then I did 4x1000m with 1min. jog recovery and my times were 4:33, 4:38, 4:40, 4:39. It felt hard, and I couldn't hit my goal pace of 4:36 without going anaerobic, which I didn't want to do because it's not the purpose of this workout. It was pretty windy today, but it wasn't just the wind slowing me down. Afterwards, did cooldown, including 4x100m strides at 5K pace.
It is discouraging to run slower times than a week ago for no apparent reason. The only difference I can see this week from previous week is that last week I did this workout after 2 days off, while this week it is my 6th day of running in a row. For me, even 1 day off makes a difference, I seem to accumulate fatigue from all the miles by the end of the week.
In any case, I don't feel particularly optimistic about my upcoming 10K this Sunday. I can't expect anything faster than 47:00 with these kind of times on my CV workout. Maybe I should take off Friday and run short easy run on Saturday to try and get some juice back into my legs. | | Comments(3) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
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just a regular easy run, Garmin woke up only mid way, so no pace information, ran by feel. Legs were tired, but cardio was just fine, and by the end, even the legs felt better.
Total time: 53:07 (8:51 pace).
I contacted my club about taking part in some track meets this summer, and they responded very enthusiastically. There are 2 track leagues I can participate in - one South England masters (called veterans here), and another one open. There is usually one scoring runner per team in each event, but it's also possible to run as a non-scoring runner. I had been not careful, and mentioned that I trained with heptathlon group for few years in high school, and the team coordinators jumped on this and told me I'm very likely to do shorter distances (200-800) and javelin and shot! I told them it might be dangerous to let me near javelin, but they were unfazed and said that meets are very low key and a lot of fun. The image of me and javelin or shot puts me into a state of nervous laughter, but it should be fun. I did indeed have some exposure to throws, but it was really no more than that - and 20 years ago. At least they are not asking me to do high jump or discus or pole vault!!
Aside from track meets, there is club championship Grand Prix of 4 races that sounds like fun with cumulative scoring. It looks like I'll be running a lot of middle distances in the next 2 months. Here is my tentative schedule:
June 3 - interclub league10K
June 11 - track meet (1500 most likely or whatever the team needs, 400-800)
June 20 - track meet (3000 or whatever the team needs, 400-800)
June 30 - club championship Grand Prix 1K (road)
July 3 - club championship Grand Prix 3K
July 10 - club championship Grand Prix 1 mile (track)
July 19 - club championship Grand Prix 5K (road)
July 23 - track meet (1500 or whatever the team needs)
July 27 - Last Friday of the Month 5K
It looks pretty intense. I think I'll have to just run easy between these events to recover and do long run on weekends. But hopefully, I'll gain a bit of speed with this. | | Comments(1) |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 4.10 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.20 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.30 |
| easy pre-race run with 4x100m strides. It was very warm today, too warm for running, and I had to dodge crowds and crowds of people and kids that were out in the park. Lots of people were just laying out in the grass in their bathing suits catching the sun. I hope it's not that warm for tomorrow's race. | | Add Comment |
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Trainer 1 Miles | Trainer 2 Miles | Racer Miles | Total Distance | | 30.95 | 0.00 | 2.50 | 1.35 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 34.80 |
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