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AVOHK Anniversary Team Race

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Location:

Kowloon Tong,Hong Kong

Member Since:

Jul 02, 2007

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Olympic Trials Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

Unaided:

5K - 17:11 (track Pre-kids and at BYU) (1998)

10K - 35:48 (track Pre-kids and at BYU) (1998)

10K - 35:34 (road - Shek Mun 10k 12/12)

1/2 Marathon 1:19:44 (UNICEF HM 11/12)

Marathon 2:47:08 (ING Hartford Connecticut 10/10)

Aided:

St. George Marathon 2:50:40 (10/08)

1/2 marathon - Hobble Creek 1:17:14 (8/08)

10K - Deseret News 10K - 35:02 (7/08)

Short-Term Running Goals:

PR 1/2 marathon AGAIN


Long-Term Running Goals:

Break 2:46 in Boston!

Personal:

I used to run for BYU, but only after trying out three times and finally walking on, so I was never a star. However, it was wonderful to run with great people and under Coach Shane. When you run with fast people, you can't help to improve! I graduated BYU in 1998, and didn't run a race until 2002, after having my second child. My hiatus and other crazy life commitments have made my competitive running suffer, but the last couple of years I have tried to get back into it the best I can. I have been married since 1996, to Paul Lowry, who is a runner himself. I have three boys (my three rascals), ages 12, 10, and 8.

After a great 2008 season, I was injured and eventually diagnosed and cross-diagnosed with Ankylosing Spondylitis, a type of arthritis disease, which precludes running for all but the most stubborn.  So I am on medications, trying to stay healthy, and seeing my PT often.  And running!  Now beating the streets in Hong Kong.

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
NB RC900 Black/yellow Lifetime Miles: 183.31
NB RC1300 Red/Black Lifetime Miles: 195.31
2012 MTR Lifetime Miles: 4035.70
890 Blue Lifetime Miles: 310.55
NB RC 1600 Lifetime Miles: 96.76
RC 1400 Lifetime Miles: 90.60
NB 890 Baby Blue Lifetime Miles: 233.26
NB 890 Electric Blue Lifetime Miles: 319.67
NB 890 Tokyo Turquoise Lifetime Miles: 163.54
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTrainer 1 MilesTrainer 2 MilesRacer MilesTotal Distance
47.060.008.053.700.000.000.0058.81
2012 MTR Miles: 191.80NB 890 Grey Miles: 33.13NB RC1300 Red/Black Miles: 10.50NB 890 Turquoise Miles: 15.18
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTrainer 1 MilesTrainer 2 MilesRacer MilesTotal Distance
8.770.000.000.000.000.000.008.77

14.12k at 4:44/k pace. Core workout.

2012 MTR Miles: 10.20NB 890 Grey Miles: 8.77
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTrainer 1 MilesTrainer 2 MilesRacer MilesTotal Distance
8.760.000.003.700.000.000.0012.46

So today I met with Alison.  She had a marathon on Sunday so was tapering and just doing 2k, lap rest, then 1k.  I thought Coach Paul would be at the track, but he wasn't so I didn't know exactly what to do, but I just did Alison's workout twice.  I did 7:15, 3:29, 7:17, 3:28.  It was pretty hot and miserable.  I went off pacing she told me (88 on 2k, 84 on 1k). 

NB RC1300 Red/Black Miles: 5.002012 MTR Miles: 11.20NB 890 Turquoise Miles: 7.46
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTrainer 1 MilesTrainer 2 MilesRacer MilesTotal Distance
8.080.000.000.000.000.000.008.08

On the TM, 8.08 in 60 minutes--without a bathroom break!

NB 890 Grey Miles: 8.08
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTrainer 1 MilesTrainer 2 MilesRacer MilesTotal Distance
8.730.003.700.000.000.000.0012.43

I still don't have a workout schedule, so I decided to brave the heat and do 2 min on/1 min off x 12.  It was not hard pace wise, just the sun was so brutal.  I ran on the Ma On Shan side to get as much shade as I could.  The hard stuff was probably about a 1/3 shaded?  Anyway, I did ok for the first four (paces were 3:25, 3:38, 3:38, 3:35) and got water after #4, but on the fifth I had to go up this hill (past the cool drinking fountain) and I just quit in the middle of that interval. I jogged to the top of the hill and started #6 at the top of it to try to help me regroup. 3:41 pace for this one, not stellar but back in the game,  after a minute’s rest, did #6 in 3:44 pace, then took 1.5 min rest after fast bits from here on, then #7 in 3:46 pace, #8 in 3:46, took one off, then decided to try again: #9 in 3:45, then #10 in 3:52 (seemed like a better effort than that).  So I scraped together 10.5 intervals.  Seriously, this was so hard.  And it is rather demoralizing.  I don’t know how I will get through five months of this with my fitness intact L  This is worse than Utah winters.  You can bundle up in the winter, use two hand warmers per hand (I did this often), but you can’t take off enough clothes to overcome the humidity. 20k total, near delirious by the finish.

2012 MTR Miles: 10.20NB 890 Grey Miles: 12.43
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTrainer 1 MilesTrainer 2 MilesRacer MilesTotal Distance
7.720.000.000.000.000.000.007.72

Day before a low key team race. 4:49/k pace

2012 MTR Miles: 10.20NB 890 Turquoise Miles: 7.72
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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Race: AVOHK Anniversary Team Race (4.35 Miles) 00:27:53, Place overall: 1
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTrainer 1 MilesTrainer 2 MilesRacer MilesTotal Distance
5.000.004.350.000.000.000.009.35

I had a really cool group race today.  It didn't start until 4pm which was a bit weird, but here in HK the standard work week is 5.5 days, so people get Sat afternoon and Sunday off. It was far from home, and we were going to pick up a taxi from a metro station, but there were no taxis coming to our taxi stand forever, so we went to the streets and grabbed one.  I arrived probably 20 minutes before the race started.

Thankfully it was not too hot, perhaps 27F, quite humid (sprinkly at times). 

This group race is that you have six team members, and the first one goes at the gun, the 2nd one goes a minute later, the 3rd one goes a minute later, the 4th one goes 30 seconds, later, the 5th one goes 30 seconds later, and the 6th one goes 30 seconds later.  Two runners need to be 40 years old +, and the men run 8k while the women run 7k.  The last runner to finish their race is the team time.  So there are intense calculations that go into where to place what athlete.  I was in the last position.  No pressure!  The course was super hilly, not my forte.  My job was to try to catch our second place runner, who was our only other woman, and to help her run strong to the end and try to not let our men catch us.  Thankfully the course is mostly uphill out then mostly downhill back.  My teammate Curtis advised me to not burn myself out going uphill, so I took that advice and ran the first half hard but not at 10k pace.  There were so many runners ahead (the whole field except my wave, the fastest wave), so it was fun to pick people off, but I had a lot of weaving I had to do. I lapped at the turnaround (3.55k at 14:38, 4:07/k pace).  At the turn around I could see there were still three ladies ahead of me, including my teammate.  She's about a 40 min 10ker, so no slacker.  She was in second at the turn around, but was in first by the time I caught her.  I helped push her, but it really wasn't a race effort at that point. So the whole race was pretty much a tempo, which is about as good as it gets in this humid, hot weather.  Second half split was 13:15 (3:48/k pace).  The men never caught us, and only one person who was not in our Team Italia beat our last man in, so it was a good showing for our team.  A nice low pressure race (except being in the last wave was some pressure).  A 7k race PR! (ok I have never raced a 7k before).

NB RC1300 Red/Black Miles: 5.502012 MTR Miles: 150.00NB 890 Grey Miles: 3.85
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTrainer 1 MilesTrainer 2 MilesRacer MilesTotal Distance
47.060.008.053.700.000.000.0058.81
2012 MTR Miles: 191.80NB 890 Grey Miles: 33.13NB RC1300 Red/Black Miles: 10.50NB 890 Turquoise Miles: 15.18
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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