Adventures of a female master runner in Metropolitan Washington, DC.
In what’s become an annual tradition, I ran the Fairfax Four Miler on New Year’s Eve. Two days later, I was back on my Hansons Marathon Method schedule. Physically, I felt great but I’m still struggling with goal race pace.
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On Christmas Eve, I struggled through an interval workout in Atlanta. But, I ran a decent marathon pace marathon an hour after returning home on Wednesday. For my long run, I ran 14 miles easy instead of the 10 scheduled.
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This week, there were two “something of substance” workouts in my training schedule. On Monday, I ran a tiring but gratifying interval workout. Yesterday, I completed a long run that was speedier than usual and but felt comfortable!
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Following a month of running very sporadically after the 2018 New York City Marathon, I completed my first week of training for the 2019 Boston Marathon! I’m following the Advanced Plan in Hansons Marathon Method this training cycle. I only had one “something of substance” workout.
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The 2019 Boston Marathon is on Monday, April 15th. For this training cycle, I chose the “Advanced” plan from Hansons Marathon Method by Luke Humphrey as my foundation. The schedule is 18 weeks, which made my start date December 10th.
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Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue The 2018 Boston Marathon was going to cap a very long, and stressful training year! Last May, I started building mileage for the
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It was the last week of my taper before the 2018 Boston Marathon! I thought my mileage was a little high so I cut some miles off my recovery runs at the end of the week. The race is tomorrow
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The first week of my taper! I ran the final hard workouts of the training cycle this week – a long run on Sunday and an interval workout on Friday. I focused on running my recovery days legitimately easy. Training
Continue readingMy last high mileage week before tapering! I had some pain in my left knee early in the week but it went away by Tuesday. Winter finally gave up its frigid, windy grip on Thursday and spring arrived! After the
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It was a tough week! My schedule didn’t have any easy days but I created one by taking Thursday off. My time from the Shamrock Half Marathon on Sunday and interval workout on Friday were both good indicators that I’m
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