Adventures of a female master runner in Metropolitan Washington, DC.
I ran successfully early in the week but my lactate threshold run on Wednesday was a failure. Depleted, I skipped my medium run on Thursday, which hurt my weekly mileage. With a few stops, I doggedly completed 10 miles at
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Feeling more confident about my training paces, I left my heart rate monitor at home for most of my workouts. A difficult career decision impacted my runs, sleep, and eating habits. Training Schedule July 22nd – July 28th Sunday: Recovery
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I attended a work conference in Baltimore to start what was a hectic work week. I struggled to find running routes and my workouts weren’t as prepared as I wanted. By Wednesday, I started to see my running paces drop
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Fully recovered from jet-lag and a cold, this felt like the first week of marathon training. Like a good runner, I pushed myself during workouts but eased off on recovery days. On Saturday, I completed my first marathon-pace workout of
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The thrill of starting my training cycle for the 2018 New York City Marathon was snuffed out quickly. Due to jet-lag and a cold, Saturday’s long run was my only workout of the week! Next week should be much better.
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If it’s July, I’m starting to train for the New York City Marathon! This will be my sixth consecutive year participating in the event, which is consistently the highlight of my running year. Everything about this race is big! It
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I took a vacation through Scandinavia and Russia this week! The “track” on the ship was about 0.13 miles long so I ran all three of this week’s workouts on the treadmill. When I return home, I’ll start training for
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Tuesday’s interval run didn’t go very well but I crushed Friday’s. I ran today’s long run harder than usual because… I’m on vacation next week! Training Schedule June 17th – June 23rd Sunday: Easy Run. 60 min E pace (1
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Lost in thought, I messed up Tuesday’s 400m and 200m interval workout… again! And, I couldn’t will myself out of bed on Thursday morning for that speed session, so I moved it to Friday. My long run on Saturday was
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On Thursday morning, I ran my long run faster than usual. That night, I lost sleep watching the Washington Capitals win the Stanley Cup! I missed the start for the Lawyers Have Heart 10K but jumped into the Crofton 10K
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