Adventures of a female master runner in Metropolitan Washington, DC.
Preface Over the years, people have asked me if I’d ever run an ultra-marathon. I always answered with some variation of, “Absolutely not!” My thinking began to change last fall when I watched a documentary on the Barkley Marathons. Even
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Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue I started training for the 2017 New York City Marathon in July using a training plan from Advanced Marathoning, Second Edition. My goal was to
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The 2017 New York City Marathon is tomorrow! I ran three short but somewhat speedy workouts early in the week and then switched to easy paces starting on Thursday. I didn’t sleep well and had some weird muscle aches all week
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One week until the 2017 New York City Marathon! This week, the weather was near perfect for running. I ran a fast long run on Sunday trying to finish in time to cheer for Marine Corps Marathon runners. All of
Continue readingAfter a huge mileage week, I “only” ran two workouts. I was so tired after the 2017 Bourbon Chase that I took two extra easy days. I was back on schedule by Wednesday, though. Training Schedule October 15th – October
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It was my final hard training week before tapering for the 2017 New York City Marathon. The Army Ten Miler was disappointing due to the heat. I didn’t plan for the 2017 Bourbon Chase very well and accidentally ran 93
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I had a fantastic training week! Cooler weather at the start of the week helped me run faster than usual. I had some plantar fasciitis and piriformis pain, though. I’m looking forward to the Army Ten Miler tomorrow and The
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It was a high mileage week! I followed my schedule for the week but between the heat and racing the 2017 Dulles Day on the Runway 10K last Saturday, my legs didn’t have much speed in them. Training Schedule September
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I entered the race preparation phase of the training program this week. All the hard work came early with three workouts in a row. I had a rough medium run on Wednesday. But, I ran the 2017 Dulles Day on the
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This was the highest mileage week in my training plan. The schedule had 87 miles with five workouts including a 24 mile long run today (which I didn’t complete.) Looking ahead, I’m racing next weekend! Oh, and I registered for
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