Jennie Duberstein's TNT Site:Welcome!
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Welcome to my Team In Training website! I am training to run in the Nike Women's Marathon on 18 October 2009 in San Francisco, California to raise money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Please become a member of my team by making a donation on my behalf.
Athlete's Log Weekly running mileage: 19 Dear Adoring Fans,
This morning I ran ten miles and although it was hot, I had a good run. Getting up early and getting in my run is actually a great start to the day for me. It is just a nice sense of accomplishment when you have already run, say, ten miles by 7:30am. And when I think I just can't make myself get out of bed, just can't run another mile, just can't keep moving forward, I think of people like Ruthie and the growing list of those in whose honor and memory I run, and that is always plenty of incentive to keep moving. Since 2005 we have raised over $22,000 to help fight blood cancers. $22,000! That is not an extra zero, friends. Together, one donation at a time, we have raised an extraordinary amount of money over the past four years. I continue to be humbled by your ongoing generosity to this important cause. It is truly a team effort--I can get up early and run the miles, but it takes all of us together to raise the money, and I am so grateful for your support. Thank you. Next week my long run is already up to 15 miles. It feels like this season that mileage got high really quickly. During the week I have been doing one day of speed intervals. During these I run sets of four 400 meter intervals at a an 8 minute mile pace, with 2 minute breaks between each lap and a five minute break between each set of four. The number of sets I do varies, anywhere from 1.5 up to 4 sets (I will be doing four sets this week, for instance, a total of four miles of intervals). Eight minute miles are about a minute faster than my goal marathon pace, and the idea is to get my legs used to going fast and push myself a bit. I have two more weeks of mid-week interval training and then I switch to tempo runs. For my training schedule, tempo runs are anywhere from 4-8 miles long at a pace that is about 10-15 seconds per mile faster than my marathon pace. Tempo runs help me take the speed that I gained from the intervals with the endurance that I get from my long runs and combine them to run both faster and longer. I push my body to run faster than marathon pace during the tempo runs with the idea that it will make marathon pace feel easy. Well, easier. That is the idea, at least, we'll see how it plays out on race day. I've been working away on my dissertation these last few weeks, too, and making some slow but steady progress. My pattern has been to immerse myself in dissertating in an unsustainable way--I'll work really hard for a month but then just not be able to take it any more and fall off the wagon, so to speak. I've been trying to be more moderate about things, setting reasonable and realistic goals and actually meeting them. What a concept! Anyway, these last few weeks have been good. Onward and upward. Oh, and just so you can see that I am not all work and no play, here are a few pictures from a trip to California that Juan and I took in June:
If you haven't already, please consider making a donation to help support the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society in its mission to find a cure for blood cancers. Any amount helps, from $5 to $500. And if you are unable to make a financial donation, your moral support is just as welcome! Please let me know if you have a special person on whose behalf you are donating and I will gladly add them to my list of honorees. If this is your first visit to my website, take a moment to read my message to you to learn more about what I am doing. Until next time!
I'm running this marathon in honor of Jan Riggs and in memory of my Uncle Ken Vinograd, my Honored Teammates, as well as in memory of my friend Robb Milacci. I also run in honor of Helena Caicedo, Jon Bart, Gabbi Martin, Daniela Garcia, Gene Espinoza, Joel Zopletal, Brooke Gebow, Nancy Zisook, Lina DiGregorio, Lillian Houser, Karson Walters, Chris Bonham, Amy Gery, Major Connelly, and Cousin John. I run in memory of my grandfather, Arthur Vinograd, who died after a long battle with Hodgkin's disease in 1959, my great aunt, Ruth Vinograd, who lost her battle with lymphoma in 1995, Jeffrey Valentino, Howard Friday, Alana Birchim, Kate Wolf, Steve Goodman, Michael Fujimoto, D.J. Herbert, Lillian Aiello, Sherry Brown, Fran Perry, Diane Dhruv, Risa, Karen Collins, Tom Peterson, Scott Lee, Carlos Valencia, Gloria M. Harris, Milford Harris, Clara M. Drobka, Lisa Harris, Fredric Green, Aunt Mary Valentino, Yvonne Dodd, and Ruthie Hast Polk. Please click on the links to the left to learn more about what I am doing, why I am doing it, and how you can become involved. Thanks for taking the time to visit my website, and feel free to contact me with any questions, comments, or if you'd like to go for a run or a ride! --Jennie If you'd like to make a secure online donation, please click here. |
I have some sad news to share this week. Ruthie Hast Polk, who had recently undergone a bone marrow transplant in an attempt to treat leukemia, passed away yesterday. Ruthie was the dear friend of the mother of one of my childhood friends. Ruthie and Lynn had known each other since first grade and had remained close all these years later. Please keep Ruthie's family and friends in your thoughts during this difficult time. 
