Adventures of a female master runner in Metropolitan Washington, DC.
Prologue My last race was the 2022 Erie Marathon, where I successfully re-qualified for next year’s Boston Marathon! The next day, I broke my right pinky toe on the coffee table and took several weeks off running. I began running again before
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This time last year, I hadn’t been cleared to run after recently being diagnosed with high blood pressure (and a Vitamin D deficiency) after finishing the 2019 New York City Marathon.
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After a fantastic long run on Sunday, I did a mini-taper before running the Alexandria (Virtual) Turkey Trot on Thursday. My course was a 5-mile loop around the Tidal Basin and Hains Point. Next up: a recovery week before training for an undetermined spring marathon.
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Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue I ran for five days after finishing the 2017 New York City Marathon so I could break my previous running streak. Then, I took
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The 2017 New York City Marathon was only two weeks ago and I’m already training for the 2018 San Diego 50 Miler! I ran three hard workouts including a 25 mile long run on Saturday – part one of two
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I returned to running regularly this week! It was hard fitting some of my runs in since I’ve started seeing a chiropractor on some mornings. It’s only been two weeks since I ran the New York City Marathon, so I’m
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Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue I ran the 2016 New York City Marathon two weeks ago. I took the next 6 days off and then eased back into running.
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I’m tapering! After completing a 20 miler on Sunday, I started decreasing mileage in the final weeks of training for the California International Marathon. But, the Hansons plan is no joke and the first week of the taper still had
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Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Training I’m in the final weeks of my Hansons marathon training plan. My goal race is the California International Marathon (CIM) on December 6th. I’ve
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