On April 23, 2012,
in Not my best performance… but for a warm and humid morning… and hilly course… I’ll take it for what it’s worth. So here are the results as stated from the Montgomery County Road Runners website… Time- 24:41 Distance- 5k or 3.1 Miles Average Min/ Mile Pace- 7:57… right under 8… PHEW Age Group Placing- 3rd of out 7 Women Overall Placing- 21st out of 158 Overall Placing- 97th out 301 So overall… not to shabby for a low key but very important race! Up next… Kaiser Permanente Pike’s Peek 10k this coming Sunday… April 29th… So hoping to PR on this net downhill course… Here we go…
Last year was a HUGE year for running for me… so I thought I’d turn it down a notch for 2012!
*Only run at most 2 marathons this years… one possible marathon as part of an Ironman and the other one a definite marathon itself… I just don’t know when and which one!
*Run my first 50k March 3rd… and become an ULTRAMARATHONER… this will be a first!
*Run at least 7 Montgomery County Road Runners Club Championship Series Road Races and 4 Montgomery County Road Runners Club Cross Country Races to qualify for awards in both series!
*Run a PR in the 5k… which means a 22:38 or faster… which equates to about a sub 7:27 minute mile pace… I’m gonna do it by seasons end!
*Hit the trails more and do less on the road… everyone says I’ll enjoy running more this way!
Here we go…
So last Saturday… Nov 26th… I ran the MCRRC Turkey Burnoff 10 Miler… the second to last race in their Championship Road Race Series! Goin in I knew I wasn’t to greatly prepared becuase I had been sick two week before and then following week… the week of Thanksgiving… training DID NOT take priority becuase the twinster was home for the holiday!
Well the race was a disaster! It was a two looped five mile course! I had the option of doing only the 5 Miler but I wanted the race to count toward the Championship Road Series standing so doing the 10 miler was the only option! Lets just say the first 2 miles were GREAT… the next 6 miles got tough… and the last 2 miles were a struggle! But I managed to finish! Not so great in the standings and my time really was super stinko! Even with this bad race I managed to keep myself in good standings in the Championship Road Race Series… so I’m happy with that!
Up next… the Jingle Bell Jog 8k Dec 11!
Here we go…
I’m gonna run the Seneca Trail 50k next spring in place of a spring marathon! With it being a local race and one put on by the Montogomery County Road Runners… it’s PERFECT! Now I just need to hit up the trails! Wish me luck! I’m gonna be an ULTRAMARATHONER… woot woot!
Here we go…
I went into the Candy Cane City 5k yesterday morning thinking… PR… PR… what did I get… NOT a PR…
Finish Time 23:14
Minute Mile Pace 7:29
Age Group Placing 3 out of 15
Women Overall Placing 12 out of 131
Overall Overall Placing 90 out of 278
Kinda pissed off… but I still have a few more races to PR at…
Here we go…
In action this morning at the 36th Annual Rockville 10k! PRed for the 5k… 22:30well the first 5k… then I fell apart at mile 4 of the 10k! 47:59 was the total time… 2nd in age group… 7th out of 64 open (20 to 34 years old) women… 106th out of 539 total people… 7:42 min mile pace! Not bad… I’m such a bad ass when it comes to 10ks… now that I’ve learned how to race them… sorta!
Here we go…
The high from the 2011 Under Armour Baltimore Marathon is now officially gone… which means the marathon blues has officailly settled in! Though Baltimore was not a great race… it was very memorable one! It was number TEN… number TEN I tell ya… such a huge deal!
With the marathon blues settled in I can only look forward to what I have coming up! The end of my season is pretty jam packed… all races areput on by the lovely Montgomery County Road Runners Club! In less than two weeks I have the Rockville 10k! It should be a fun race for me… well ok it should be a fun run for me. I am running it with my used to be store manager Denise! For Denise it will be her first 10k and possibly… I don’t know… her first race! I’m excited that I get to share the moments of it with her! She’s one of my favorite people in the whole universe so I’m pretty darn excited! The races following that are the Candy Cane City 5k… the Turkey Burnoff 10 Miler… and the Jingle Bell Jog! All those races will be a blast… but being road races… they are and will be important. I have to and want to and need to perform well at each one! Being in third place in my age group for the Montgomery County Road Runners Championship Series currently pisses me off… I shouldn’t be that low in the rankings… so… Read the rest
Did a reGen muscle recovery beverage sampling at MCRRC Track Workout this past Wednesday and had a blast handing out coupons and samples! Here are two hillarious photos I wanted to share with y’all from my sampling!
Two Goofballs… aka Jordan and Scott showing off their reGen and muscles…
Jordan and I being a little silly while showing off our muscles and reGen…
Here we go…
Ran my FIRST EVER Cross Country Running Race this past Saturday evening and LOVED it! Here are a few pictures from the 2011 MCRRC Comus Cross Country 5k Run…
73 our of 117 Overall
12 out of 34 Gals Overall
1 out of 3 25 to 29 Year Old Gals Overall
30:18 Total Time
9:46 Minute Mile Pace
Or is my training going super de duper FABULOUS? My workouts yesterday (Wednesday) involved an INTENSE 3500 yard swim followed by a BREATH TAKING 6 by 800s interval track workout!
My swim workout was as followed…
500 Free Warm Up Swim
2 by 250s Pull with Pull Buoy ONLY
2 by 150s Free No Free Free by 50
100 Easy Free
4 by 250s Free Build
1000 Pull with Paddles and Pull Buoy
100 Easy Free Cool Down Swim
Then a few hours later my track interval workout 6 by 800s times were as followed…
3:26
3:28
3:27
3:29
3:27
3:28
Note… all the 800s were done at a SUB 7 MIN MILE pace 
Not too shabby at all…
What is on the calendar for me today… morning cardio and weights at LA Fitness then a 5 to 6 mile hopefully trail run after work!
Gosh… I love this training!
Here we go…
