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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
61.50
Nike Vomero 10 Miles: 40.50Adidas Response Boost 2.0 Miles: 16.00Brooks Ghost 8 Miles: 5.00
Night Sleep Time: 43.00Nap Time: 1.00Total Sleep Time: 44.00
Total Distance
10.00

8:14 average. Tripped on a root and fell and got a little cut up because I was too busy looking all around and above me at how beautiful of a day it was!! Can't even be mad. :) I ran a few miles on the course at Milliken, then went out to Upstate and back down through the course.

Nike Vomero 10 Miles: 10.00
Night Sleep Time: 7.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 7.00
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Total Distance
8.00

8 miles by myself on this beautiful day, kind of just all over the place. Ran into my friend Kassidy at Converse! 7:59 avg.

Adidas Response Boost 2.0 Miles: 8.00
Night Sleep Time: 6.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.00
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Total Distance
6.50

2 mile warm up, 4x1000m repeats, 2 mile cool down. I was shooting for ever-so-slightly faster than race pace, so 3:56 (95 a lap). I hit 3:56, 3:57, 3:56, 3:59. Really had to fight for those last two...in fact I'd planned on doing 5, but I had slown down so much on #4 (6 seconds slow at the 800) and only managed to get sub-4 by bargaining with myself that it should be quality over quantity, and that if I kicked really hard the last 200 then I'd call it a day. I feel bad about that, but I think it was a good choice. Had I tried a 5th, first of all I wouldn't have kicked so I probably would have ran well over 4 minutes for the fourth, and second of all the fifth would have definitely been even slower. So that would have been a jab to the confidence. Oh well, ya win some ya lose some! 

Nike Vomero 10 Miles: 6.50
Night Sleep Time: 6.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.00
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Total Distance
8.00

7:52 average. Great run around Duncan Park!

Adidas Response Boost 2.0 Miles: 8.00
Night Sleep Time: 6.00Nap Time: 1.00Total Sleep Time: 7.00
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Total Distance
7.00

.75 warm up, 6 miles tempo at Milliken at 7:12 avg. Happy with that given its so hilly!! .25 cool down.

Nike Vomero 10 Miles: 7.00
Night Sleep Time: 6.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.00
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Total Distance
11.00

AM- 1 mile warm up, 4x1 mile repeats, 1 mile cool down. 6:52, 6:52, 6:44, 6:48. Felt rough, I think I'm tired from that tempo for sure.

PM- 5 miles easy. First run in my new Ghosts!

Nike Vomero 10 Miles: 6.00Brooks Ghost 8 Miles: 5.00
Night Sleep Time: 5.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 5.00
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Total Distance
11.00

Awesome long run on a trail off the parkway with the whole team! We had our cross country mountain weekend and all went up to stay at J-Rice's cabin for the weekend. "Hard Times Trail"...and the name doesn't lie. It went straight uphill for 15 minutes, then straight downhill for 15 minutes, then relatively flat for 15, and then we turned around and did the same thing coming back. Man those uphills were rough, and contrary to popular belief it was actually kind of difficult running downhill for so long too. But I worked hard on the uphill to just keep going no matter what (a lot of people were having to stop and take breaks), so I tried to stick with Anya. We killed it, and averaged 8:12, which is pretty insane considering the length of the uphill and the fact that downhill doesn't help as much as uphill hurts (just like how tailwind doesn't aid as much as headwind slows). Good run!

Also, 61 miles this week!!! I've only touched over 60 once before, but I feel fantastic. Sweet!

Nike Vomero 10 Miles: 11.00
Night Sleep Time: 7.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 7.00
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Total Distance
61.50
Nike Vomero 10 Miles: 40.50Adidas Response Boost 2.0 Miles: 16.00Brooks Ghost 8 Miles: 5.00
Night Sleep Time: 43.00Nap Time: 1.00Total Sleep Time: 44.00
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