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July 2015

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Location:

NC,USA

Member Since:

Dec 14, 2013

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

10k - 43:06

6k - 25:00

5k - 19:30

3k - 11:17

1600m - 5:31

1500m - 5:13

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

Maintain base fitness while abroad in the spring

Learn to love running again

Long-Term Running Goals:

Run half & full marathons

Stay fit & healthy

Marry a runner & have fast kids? (kidding but not kidding)

Grow in my enjoyment of running, regardless of pace/times

Personal:

I currently run for Wofford College in South Carolina, where I double major in biology and Spanish. I will be spending 5 months studying abroad in Chile in 2017. I love cookie dough a little too much and spend most of my free time outside or asleep (or both). Living & running to know Christ and to make Him known!

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Nike Structure 18 Lifetime Miles: 795.13
Adizero Avanti 2.0 Spikes Lifetime Miles: 69.05
Saucony Breakthru Lifetime Miles: 466.61
Nike Pegasus 31 Lifetime Miles: 533.93
Nike Vomero 10 Lifetime Miles: 498.70
Adidas Response Boost 2.0 Lifetime Miles: 194.45
Brooks Ghost 8 Lifetime Miles: 97.05
Brooks Glycerin 13 Lifetime Miles: 87.50
Mizuno Wave Rider 19 Lifetime Miles: 36.65
Total Distance
208.40
Saucony Breakthru Miles: 206.90
Night Sleep Time: 150.50Nap Time: 8.00Total Sleep Time: 158.50
Total Distance
9.00

9 miles easy from ISI back into the woods & trail that I love. Fun run! I explored a bit and took my time and felt well. Not sure of my pace because the button on my watch that lets me press stop on my runs doesn't work anymore.... so it just keeps tracking and GPS-ing all the way back home till I plug it in, which skews my average pace. I could have looked at the time right when I stopped and calculated it out that way but I didn't so I don't really know.

Core work and agility afterwards.

Saucony Breakthru Miles: 9.00
Night Sleep Time: 6.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.00
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8.38

Awesome run this morning. I feel like I'm starting to enjoy running again, at least as of these last few days. Ran to Broadway, back into the Plantation Point neighborhood across the highway onto Deerbrook rd, and back. Workout was a 20 minute warm up right into 3x10min comfortably hard (~7min pace) + 5 min easy (~8:15 pace) between each hard section, bringing it to a total of 65 minutes. Felt really strong during the hard sections. Averaged 7:45 overall, including warm up and easy sections. 

Saucony Breakthru Miles: 8.38
Night Sleep Time: 6.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.00
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11.00

Long run mostly in the sprinkling rain. Felt good, enjoyed myself! My feet kind of hurt though, there's just no grass here. Had a huge chicken rice bowl right before I ran and began the run painfully full, sloshing all the food in my belly, so I did have to stop for 2 potty breaks, which was annoying. Oh well.

Saucony Breakthru Miles: 11.00
Night Sleep Time: 6.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.00
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0.00

Wallet and keys got stolen so I am carless, ID-less, and moneyless. So I've been dealing with that most of today and honestly just don't want to deal with the stress of running right now. Taking today off.

Night Sleep Time: 4.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 4.50
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Total Distance
7.00

Saucony Breakthru Miles: 7.00
Night Sleep Time: 6.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.00
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7.00

5 at 7:28 avg

Saucony Breakthru Miles: 7.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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8.00

8:21 avg

Saucony Breakthru Miles: 8.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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7.00

Saucony Breakthru Miles: 7.00
Night Sleep Time: 6.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.00
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0.00

treaded water for an hour

Night Sleep Time: 6.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.00
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5.17

sucky golf course run. 8:22 avg. lots of breaks

Saucony Breakthru Miles: 5.17
Night Sleep Time: 6.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.00
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10.00

10 on the treadmill. Felt good...probs bc of A/C

Saucony Breakthru Miles: 10.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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7.00

No clue what I actually did this day, just making an educated guess

Saucony Breakthru Miles: 7.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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8.00

Last run off of ISI

Saucony Breakthru Miles: 8.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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8.75

Fartlek workout on teh treadmill

Saucony Breakthru Miles: 8.75
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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Total Distance
8.00

Can't actually remember what I did but I wanna say it was 8?

Saucony Breakthru Miles: 8.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
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0.00

pool workout

Night Sleep Time: 6.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.00
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0.00

Night Sleep Time: 6.00Nap Time: 1.00Total Sleep Time: 7.00
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0.00

pool workout

Night Sleep Time: 6.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.00
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Total Distance
12.00

Long run sunday! Averaged 8:10. Felt pretty good, but my left arch is killing me. Can hardly walk on it. Yikes.

Saucony Breakthru Miles: 12.00
Night Sleep Time: 6.00Nap Time: 1.00Total Sleep Time: 7.00
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9.00

1 mile warm-up, 7 miles tempo averaging 7:29, 1 mile cool down. Felt harder than it should have been for that pace (should have averaged at least 10-15 seconds faster).

Saucony Breakthru Miles: 9.00
Night Sleep Time: 6.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.00
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0.00

Pool workout. My left arch is still bothering my regularly, and the heat is so miserable. I really look foward to pool workouts in place of recovery runs these days.

Night Sleep Time: 6.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.00
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Total Distance
10.00

10 miles at 7:43 avg with Reid and KJ. Felt great, for one of the first times all summer. Nice to have someone to run with today!

Saucony Breakthru Miles: 9.00
Night Sleep Time: 5.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 5.00
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0.00

Packing day

Night Sleep Time: 6.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.00
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0.00

Move-out day

Night Sleep Time: 6.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.00
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Total Distance
13.00

First run back home in my mountains!!! Felt SO good. Everything is so beautiful, I was entertained the whole time just by the route around me that I've seen thousands of times. And it was so cool and crisp out - none of that Myrtle Beach 95% humidity business. 

Saucony Breakthru Miles: 13.00
Night Sleep Time: 7.00Nap Time: 1.00Total Sleep Time: 8.00
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Total Distance
8.50

8 miles easy + 8x15 sec hill sprints. First hill sprints all summer seeing as there wasn't a hill I could find anywhere in Dyrtle besides the slight incline of a parking garage. Beautiful run again this morning, I'm way too happy to be running here again!

Saucony Breakthru Miles: 8.50
Night Sleep Time: 8.00Nap Time: 1.00Total Sleep Time: 9.00
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Total Distance
9.60

1 mile warm up, 60 minute up-tempo run, keeping it between 75-85% of race pace (7:40-7:02). Averaged 7:29, but quite honestly suffered through it. I was dying the whole last 25 minutes or so. I definitely slacked on a lot of these tempo runs this summer because it was so difficult for me to do them (unless I was inside on a treadmill) in Myrtle, and I can feel that now. I feel like a 60 minute tempo averaging 7:20 shouldn't be too much to ask right now. Gotta get it back. Half mile barefoot cool down afterwards & creek time.

Saucony Breakthru Miles: 9.10
Night Sleep Time: 7.00Nap Time: 4.00Total Sleep Time: 11.00
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12.00

AM- 7.2 miles easy. Drove to work with Mommy, then ran about 3 miles downtown before running the 4ish back to the house.

PM- 4.8 miles easy in Webster, bringing it to 12 for the day. 

Saucony Breakthru Miles: 12.00
Night Sleep Time: 8.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 8.00
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10.00

10 around Cullowhee. Started at Western then ran to CVS and got most of the miles there and 2 or 3 miles up Tilley creek and back. Heat of the day made me a bit lathargic, but still no where near as bad as even the mornings in Myrtle! I'm still so happy to be home in case you can't tell :) 

Saucony Breakthru Miles: 10.00
Night Sleep Time: 8.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 8.00
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7.00

7 nice & easy in Webster. Ran Buchanan Loop, then 2 and a half miles down North River Road and back. Did a lot of thinking on this run so it went by pretty fast, but I was zoned out the whole time so I really don't know how fast (or rather, how slow) I was going. Still working on getting things sorted out with the warranty on Genevieve, my broken GPS watch. Hopefully I'll get that on lockdown so I can start tracking my paces and exact mileage again.

Saucony Breakthru Miles: 7.00
Night Sleep Time: 6.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.00
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Total Distance
13.00

Long run day in Cullowhee. Felt great! Stilllll thankful to be back in the mountains.

Saucony Breakthru Miles: 13.00
Night Sleep Time: 7.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 7.00
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Total Distance
208.40
Saucony Breakthru Miles: 206.90
Night Sleep Time: 150.50Nap Time: 8.00Total Sleep Time: 158.50
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