Back On Track
This week, I had my first visit to the track since last summer. For the past year, I’ve been doing interval workouts on the trail or the treadmill either due to weather conditions or to avoid crowds at the track.
Continue readingAdventures of a female master runner in Metropolitan Washington, DC.
This week, I had my first visit to the track since last summer. For the past year, I’ve been doing interval workouts on the trail or the treadmill either due to weather conditions or to avoid crowds at the track.
Continue readingI love running clothes and gear! As the temperatures start to rise, I thought I’d share my favorites for the summer.* I haven’t bought any items lately, so these are from past seasons and may not be available now. But
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 readingDaniels, and Hudson, and Hansons… Oh my!
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
Continue readingThe question I’m getting most these days is, “What are you doing next?” I’ve been so marathon focused these past 10 months that I didn’t give much thought to what I’d be doing after the Boston Marathon. (Other than recovery.
Continue readingThe desire to run is slowly returning. I decided to run “long” today. I went back and forth on how far that would mean. An hour and a half seemed reasonable. I settled on an 11 mile loop that didn’t
Continue readingToday, I ran for the second time since the Boston Marathon. When I’m training, I typically run everyday. Since I’ve essentially been marathon training since last June, this break was welcomed and overdue. I like to give myself as much
Continue readingTraining 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
Continue readingThis is the first post of a blog where I’ll chronicle some of my running adventures – training, racing, and all the big and small details surrounding the two. I’m writing primarily for friends and acquaintances who are mid-packers like
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