Adventures of a female master runner in Metropolitan Washington, DC.
Training Schedule September 4th – September 10th Sunday: Medium-long Run. 13 milesMonday: RestTuesday: Recovery Run. 7 milesWednesday: Dress rehearsal. 7 mi w/ 2 mi @ marathon race paceThursday: RestFriday: Recovery Run + speed. 5 mi w/ 6 x 100 m stridesSaturday: Recovery Run. 4 miles
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The first week of my taper! I ran the final hard workouts of the training cycle this week – a long run on Sunday and an interval workout on Friday. I focused on running my recovery days legitimately easy. Training
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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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The Hanson people are trying to kill me. I ran 80 miles this week, which is a pretty heavy load already. On Wednesday, I realized I had ran 20 miles at goal marathon pace in the past 5 days! And,
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