Adventures of a female master runner in Metropolitan Washington, DC.
Prologue When I missed getting into the 2024 Boston Marathon by 5 seconds, I immediately selected another spring marathon to get over the sting. I chose the Ottawa Marathon because my boyfriend and I wanted to visit Quebec, Canada, which
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Prologue When I think about Mile 16 of the 2019 New York City Marathon, I remember feeling like I wanted to quit. It’s a feeling I’ve only had a handful of times in my running career. By Mile 21, I was
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Prologue Leaving the finish line area at the 2021 Boston Marathon, I soaked in the view and how I felt because I wasn’t sure I would ever return. But I trained hard over the summer and ran a Boston Marathon
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Prologue Back in November, when I created my training plan for the 2022 Rock ‘n’ Roll Half Marathon, I wrote about how much I wanted to return to the New York City Marathon and the Boston Marathon. Unfortunately, I found out
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A very late year-end review for 2021! It was another year of injury and illness. Last February, I fell, breaking two fingers and skinning my knee! In May, I started training for the 2021 London Marathon (as part of the inaugural Wanda Age Group Championship). But in September, I tested positive for COVID-19! A month after recovering, I ran the 2021 Boston Marathon! Unfortunately, I did not re-qualify for next year’s race. For the rest of the year, I ran relatively low mileage but focused on interval training in an attempt to get my speed back in 2022.
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So much changed in my world in the 13 weeks since my last post back in February when I tripped on a piece of metal near the sidewalk during a run, breaking two fingers and severely skinning my knee in the process!
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So much has changed in the world in the eleven weeks since my Boston Marathon training cycle came to a grinding halt when that race and the London Marathon were both postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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This was supposed to be my first week training solely for the Brazos Bend 50 Miler, which is in December. However, I spent the week recovering from the 2019 New York City Marathon and focusing on my overall health.
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Scroll all the way down to the end for the tl;dr version. Prologue This was a strange training cycle because I simultaneously prepared for the New York City Marathon (“NYCM”) using the 12 weeks, 70 miles per week plan in
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This race was pretty high on my list of tough marathons. If the race was a week or two earlier, I think it could be a destination event. It was well organized and there’s just enough to do around downtown for a three-day weekend.
I finished the 2019 Boston Marathon in mid-April and did a “reverse taper” before training again.
Based on the warm weather forecast, I adjusted my expectations considerably and just wanted to finish. The spectators were fantastic – spraying runners with hoses and giving out water. In the final miles, the temperature was 84 degrees! My time was 3:57:09 (9:02 pace) – my second slowest marathon.
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