Adventures of a female master runner in Metropolitan Washington, DC.
This week, I started the sharpening phase of my marathon training. Sunday’s long run went well but took a lot out of me. By Tuesday’s workout, I was still too tired to hit my goal paces no matter how hard
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I had a sluggish start to the week as muscle soreness from Saturday’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Half Marathon hit me hard on Monday and Tuesday. Adjusting to Daylight Savings Time was no picnic either. I did the rare run commute
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Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue After completing the California International Marathon (CIM) in December, I started training for the 2016 Boston Marathon a month later. The Rock ‘n’ Roll
Continue readingStrong week! I ran a 22 miler on Sunday and a ran two easy runs on Monday. I had a rough interval workout on Tuesday and then cut-back my mileage in preparation for my first “tune up” race of this
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Here’s a marathon training tip for you: don’t do a hard 15 miler the day before a tempo run. This week, I learned that lesson the hard way and went to a very painful place. Somehow, I came out of
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