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Location:

Draper,UT,

Member Since:

Jun 11, 2009

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

5K- 16:37

6K CC - 19:55

4 miles- 22:10

10K- 34:38

15K- 49:57

Half Marathon- 1:12:03

20K - 1:08:38

Marathon- 2:35:49

Short-Term Running Goals:

Stay fit and have fun doing some local races.

Get my youth cross country team, www.racecats.org off the ground.

Long-Term Running Goals:

Feel energized. Stay healthy and balanced

Personal:

Four awesome kids ages 4, 8, 10, and 12 years old. Love to run, play, and write. Married to entrepreneurial Aaron.

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Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	0.00
Book Dissolved Lifetime Miles:						6539.00
Altra Intuition Lifetime Miles:						35.00

Mon, Jun 08, 2009

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
0.00	8.00	0.00	0.00	8.00

Hi. I'm new here. After reading Allie's blog and browsing a few others, I'm thinking this is a good way for me to track my mileage, follow what other runners are doing, and get training ideas and suggestions. I just registered for the TOU marathon in September and the Georgetown to Idaho Springs Half Marathon in August, so I figure its time to start getting serious about my training and bumping up my mileage. Up until now, I've just been running 4 or 5 days a week, probably averaging 25-30 miles a week. Now I'm going to get up to 45-60 miles a week as I train for my marathon. This is only my second marathon, so any and all comments, suggestions are welcome and appreicated. Thanks for reading!

Monday: Ran out and back on the Big Dry Creek trail by my house. Ave. Pace 6:53. Total of 800 feet elevation change over 8 miles. Felt great and very happy with my effort.

Comments

From Burt on Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 13:05:59 from 68.76.197.194

Welcome to the blog. Allie's cool, but I've never really met her in real life. I look forward to seeing your progress towards TOU!

From Sasha Pachev on Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 18:34:34 from 64.81.245.109

Welcome to the blog!

Number one element in marathon success is good health. Number two base mileage. Number three specific training at race pace in large volume. Number one should be taken care before number two, and number two before number three.

With your natural speed marathon OTQ should be no problem, just a matter of staying healthy and putting in the miles.

From Sasha Pachev on Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 18:47:54 from 64.81.245.109

Based on

http://www.directathletics.com/athletes/track/26069.html

a more precise estimate of your marathon potential is around 2:28-2:32. This assumes your collegiate speed is still accessible, meaning the wiring for it is still there, and that 2:20 800 is close to what you could have achieved with specific 800 training. 9:36 3000 and 10:14 steeple is very encouraging for the marathon if 2:20 is close to all you can do in the 800. The hope is backed up by the fact that you did not totally bomb in your first and only marathon and ran even splits (assuming your Millisecond Timing split of 1:29 in Ogden is correct).

But even if the wiring is partially gone, there is still probably still enough for a sub-2:40.

From jtshad on Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 08:57:09 from 69.20.188.98

Welcome to the blog!

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