Adventures of a female master runner in Metropolitan Washington, DC.
The New York City Marathon is my favorite marathon. Making my way through all five boroughs of the city with 50,000 of my fellow runners and thousands of amazingly supportive New Yorkers has been absolutely thrilling! If everything goes as
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It wasn’t a particularly hard week – two medium intensity days during the workweek and then a long run today that included the Fletcher’s Cove ParkRun. I start training for the New York City Marathon tomorrow! But, I’m not
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A week out from New York City Marathon training, I dialed down the intensity but kept my mileage up. On Monday, I ran a 3 mile tempo run on the treadmill. The next day, I did a 12 miler through
Continue readingI slowed down a lot during my runs this week due to the heat and humidity. Today, I ran my first ParkRun! I’m about 3 weeks out from training for the 2017 New York City Marathon, but I found
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Another week, another race! I ran a 10K today. Earlier in the week, I did a tempo run on Tuesday and a medium run on Wednesday. Overall, it wasn’t a bad week. I just felt a little off. I enjoyed
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I ran two races this week – a half marathon on Sunday and a 5K today. By the end of the week, my body felt like it was training for a marathon again! I pushed through it and took Friday
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This week, if I was running, I was probably running hard! I ran the Capitol Hill Classic 10K on Sunday, a fast 8 miler on Tuesday, some mile repeats on Wednesday, and a hard 12 miler on Friday. Training Schedule
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I didn’t miss running after the Eugene Marathon. I think I was feeling a little burned out. I forced myself to run a few miles on Tuesday and Friday. Today, I actually wanted to run and completed 10 miles. Training
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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 Eugene Marathon back in December and created my own training plan each week. Overall, it was a great training
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Greetings from Eugene, Oregon! I think this was my most restful taper ever – I “only” ran 32 miles this week. My workouts went well but I felt sluggish during some of them, which isn’t unusual for a taper. My
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