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2021 Year End Review

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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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2021 Boston Marathon

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This week, I only had two workouts – a medium-long run on Sunday and a marathon-pace workout on Thursday. Mostly, I prepared to race and accept that I may not re-qualify for the Boston Marathon. But, one month after having COVID-19 and having to skip the London Marathon, I’m grateful for the opportunity to start. On Friday, my partner and I left Washington, D.C., and made our way to Boston by way of New York City.

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2021 Boston Marathon – Week 5

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This week, I only had two workouts – a medium-long run on Sunday and a marathon-pace workout on Thursday. Mostly, I prepared to race and accept that I may not re-qualify for the Boston Marathon. But, one month after having COVID-19 and having to skip the London Marathon, I’m grateful for the opportunity to start. On Friday, my partner and I left Washington, D.C., and made our way to Boston by way of New York City.

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2021 Boston Marathon – Week 4

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On Sunday, I ran a final 20 miler for confidence and then started tapering for the Boston Marathon! Almost every run featured tears as I grappled with the personal struggles from the past two years. Struggling to put my London Marathon trying cycle behind me as that race approached, I finally started my itinerary for the Boston Marathon on Saturday.

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2021 Boston Marathon - Week 2

2021 Boston Marathon – Week 2

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This was my first full week of training since deciding not to run the London Marathon and focusing on the Boston Marathon instead. I was fairly aggressive and ran a 16 mile long run on Sunday, 1000m repeats on Tuesday, concluding with a 14-mile medium run on Thursday.

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2021 Boston Marathon – Week 1

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I caught COVID-19! A few days after running the 2021 South Lakes 10K, I tested positive. I spent a week recovering before I resumed training but due to travel and testing complications, accepted that I shouldn’t attempt run the London Marathon. As the British say, I was “gutted” – extremely disappointed after all the training that I’ve done to miss out on the inaugural Wanda Age Group World Championship! But, the Boston Marathon is a pretty nice consolation prize.

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2021 South Lakes 10K

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Prologue My last in-person race was the 2020 Reston 10 Miler.  Shortly thereafter, the COVID-19 pandemic struck, and the 2020 Boston Marathon., the race that I was training for, was canceled.  I held out hope that the 2020 London Marathon and inaugural Wanda

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2021 London Marathon – Week 15

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After staying up late on Saturday night, I pushed my first 22-mile effort of this training cycle to Monday. After my interval run on Wednesday, I skipped another workout for the week and did easy runs in preparation for the South Lakes 10K on Sunday! Finally, I’ll be racing in-person again!

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2021 London Marathon – Week 14

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With 14 weeks of training in my legs, my motivation started to fade a bit this week but I still got my workouts in. I kept my regular schedule, running long on Sunday, intervals on Tuesday, and medium on Thursday. On Friday afternoon, I did my easy run downtown for a change.

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