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April 08, 2005
I'm Here!!!
By way of introduction I have been running for almost five years, I am in my mid-twenties, and I moved to Boston in August for grad school. I played other sports when I was in high school, but I used to hate running and only started to lose some of the college “bonus” weight I had collected. I did lose the weight (ok, not really-but I am pretty sure more of it is muscle now)-but the running stuck. My first task was a marathon. After that fall race I knew I was hooked when I actually bought running tights so I could continue to run through the winter.
I ran a second marathon the following year, but it is only in the past two years I have started to train seriously. I don’t have a coach or anything, but I am learning about speed workouts, tempo runs, long runs, etc. I still don’t know what exactly a strider is. However, I do know I am a serious runner because of the emotional “unhappiness spiral” I find myself in when I can’t run. It has been a definite learning process that has been filled with some injuries, some minor foot surgeries (which may or not have been related to running), some great runs, and many fun (and funny) stories. I hope to share many of them with you through this blog and I hope you will share some back.
I am a bit different than some of the many elite running bloggers on this site who inspire me. I don’t cover ground quite as swiftly as some of them so I have different (and some of the same) running goals. Here are two of my main ones for 2005:
1) PR in a few shorter races. Except for the 5K I have some pretty soft PRs so I think I should be able to PR for at least a few distances. In my previous obsession with the marathon distance it didn’t even occur to me to race shorter distances.
2) Qualify for the Boston Marathon. (Requiring cutting 45 minutes off my previous best time). If all goes well I hope to run a fall marathon. According to those internet race predictor calculators we all know and love I should be able to this...so it’s a matter of figuring out how...and as we all know, the marathon is its own unique monster.
There is one more goal that will take all of 2005 and maybe some of 2006 but that requires its own entry (it’s a game and there are rules, etc) so it will have to wait to be explained.
Posted by Audrey at April 8, 2005 06:48 PM