Adventures of a female master runner in Metropolitan Washington, DC.
The week started rough. I couldn’t remember the last time I felt this tired during marathon training. I managed to hit goal marathon pace (7:38 for a 3:20 marathon) on Wednesday despite serious doubts before the workout. That was followed
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I’ve bought some things over the past few months. Surprisingly, all of my recent clothing purchases have been shorts. I’ve looked at and tried on some tops but wasn’t happy with any of them. I did purchase a few pieces
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It was a pretty good training week. My run on Monday was a little rough, but the others weren’t so bad. Overall, I was a little tired but that’s to be expected when you’re starting marathon training. My runs this
Continue readingI completed the first week of training for the 2015 California International Marathon! I thought I would post weekly updates on how my training is going. As I was thinking about how to format them, I thought maybe it would
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My summer racing season has come to an end. I ran two races at the end of July – the Rockville Twilighter 8K and the Crystal City Twilighter 5K. Scroll all the way down to the end of the post
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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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I haven’t officially started training for the 2015 California International Marathon training (that will start July 26th) but once I decided to use the Hansons Marathon Method, I thought it might be a good idea to read the plan more
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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 readingFor the past three years, my goal fall marathon was either the New York City Marathon (“NYCM”) or Marine Corps Marathon (“MCM”). Training for a marathon in the heat and humidity of Washington, D.C. was miserable. Runs that started comfortable
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Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Wait, What? Until a few days ago, my plan was to run the Lawyers Have Heart 10K (LHH). But, the Washington DC area had been
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