Barb T.

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Location:

Dallas,Tx,USA

Member Since:

Nov 09, 2009

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

San Diego Marathon finisher 2004, 2005

San Francisco Marathon finisher 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012

Santa Rosa Marathon 2013, 2015

PR Santa Rosa Marathon 2013 4:01:13

Short-Term Running Goals:

2010 San Francisco Marathon DONE 4:05:36

2011 Boston Marathon DONE 4:21

2011 San Francisco Marathon DONE

2012 San Francisco Marathon BREAK 4 hour barrier...not quite 4:02:35

2014 Santa Rosa Marathon 4:01:13

2014 Break 4 hour barrier in the Boston Marathon 2014!

Long-Term Running Goals:

~~Qualify for the Boston Marathon~~

~~DONE 4:05:36 San Francisco Marathon 2010~~

Qualify for Boston again (now need 4:10:00) DONE!!! Ran a 4:01:13 in the Santa Rosa Marathon August 25, 2013!

Break 4 hour barrier... 2015???

Personal:

I'm married to a wonderful Dutch husband and have 2 girls. I live and work in West Africa and am home in the states every summer and run the San Francisco Marathon.

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Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	0.00
Hoka 1 Lifetime Miles:						16.47
Brooks Ghost Lifetime Miles:						35.21

Sat, May 22, 2010

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
2.50	0.00	0.00	6.00	8.50

Ran 6 x 1 mile repeats HARD. w.u. 1 mile. c.d. walked for about 10 minutes.

7:39, 7:27, 7:36, 7:40, 7:28, 7:29

predicted marathon pace: 9:41

predicted finish: 4:13:42

target pace 9:15

target finish 4:05

Have some work to do. Might have slowed down a bit just because it's quite warm and humid. Just wears on me. I pushed hard on every mile and walked about 5 minutes in between each mile. Next weekend will be a 26 miler.

Boy am I thankful for a runny partner who pushes me!

Brooks Adren GTS Spr 2010 Miles: 8.50

Comments

From Snoqualmie on Sat, May 22, 2010 at 15:43:45 from 24.18.192.33

Wow! Those look more like VO2 max splits to me! Not MP running. You've got some speed for sure. The only time I've ever run that fast was in a 5K and I thought I was going to die.

By the way, just a thought - if I'm running, I count the walking miles in my total as well. I just hit the lap key to keep them separate. The running before and after each walk brings the physiological level of the walk breaks up to a slow jog level. That's my philosophy anyway. Good luck with your long run. :)

p.s. Is that your monkey or just a passerby?

From Barb on Sun, May 23, 2010 at 14:12:45 from 196.200.54.130

Hey Snow...thanks for the input. I changed my MP miles to VO2 max miles. These were actually about 10 seconds slower that last months fast miles. I figured it was because of humidity and heat (even though we run at 4:30 in the morning! I also added the walking break miles in to boost my mileage. The monkey is not ours but some friends that live in a village out in the middle of no where! The extent of wildlife in our yard is a water turtle.

From Barb on Mon, May 24, 2010 at 07:56:19 from 196.200.54.130

Hey sno...was wondering what you do for tapering your mileage before a marathon. I plan on doing 26 miles this Sunday and then 29 miles around the 2nd of July (after we're in Holland where it will be cool! Woohoo!). Then the San Francisco Marathon will be on July 25th. Any recommendations or input would be greatly appreciated!

From Snoqualmie on Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:08:56 from 24.18.192.33

In my earlier marathons, I followed the "book advice" with a classic 3 week taper. As I became more confident in my own judgment, I realized it was too much. After much experimentation, I have settled on a 2 week taper, with one week of slight reduction and some speedwork (one session), and the last week with a dramatic reduction but lots of MP running. So, short, intense runs. You can see over the next two weeks how I do that.

As for the weekends, the long run progression I like is: 23+, 20, 10 w/ mp, marathon.

I hope that helps. Some people don't lose fitness very fast, but I think I do. At the same time, I like my legs to feel really fresh on race day. I will usually have two days off completely right before the marathon.

You've got some big miles scheduled. That's going to give you amazing endurance I'm sure.

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