Adventures of a female master runner in Metropolitan Washington, DC.
With summer heat looming, I bought some light-weight running clothes. I ran speed workouts on the Four Mile Run Trail and proclaimed it “my track”. After most of my hard days, I refueled with recovery drinks. And, I finally watched
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Before any given run, I spend a little bit of mental energy thinking about a few things – what to eat or drink, what the weather is like, what to wear, where to run, what pace I should target… This
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Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. I ran two races this week! I was already planning to run the Firecracker 5K on the Fourth of July. But, at the last minute,
Continue readingIt’s hard to do lengthy race reports for shorter races. They’re over so quickly that I don’t have time to remember much about them. The Course It’s a pretty good course. It starts at a school in Capitol Hill that
Continue readingI wasn’t going to write a race report for Ragnar Cape Cod since I considered it more of a social event than a competitive one. I didn’t do any specific training for it. But, since I ran my legs hard
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Training I did a modified Pfitzinger Advanced Marathoning, 18 week/85 miles a week plan. However, my goal race for the spring was RnR DC. After that race, I took three days off and then started training again. Unfortunately, about a
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