Adventures of a female master runner in Metropolitan Washington, DC.
Since I’m tapering, I only ran two workouts this week – a long on Sunday and a tempo on Thursday. The countdown to Eugene has officially started – 8 days to go! Training Schedule Week 19: April 23rd – April
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I ran the Boston Marathon on Monday and started my taper for the Eugene Marathon the moment I crossed the finish line. After three days of easy running, I did an interval workout on Friday. I feel fantastic! Time to
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Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue This would be my fifth Boston Marathon. My first was in 2012 – the most recent “hot year”. I skipped 2013 – the year
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After two tough workouts, I decided I should respect the marathon and take it easy for the rest of the week. I’m looking forward to running the Boston Marathon on Monday and then focusing on the Eugene Marathon in three
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Fantastic week! I ran a great time at the Cherry Blossom 10 Miler and followed it up with some equally good training. 9 days until the Boston Marathon and 28 days until Eugene! Training Schedule Week 16: April 2nd –
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I ran a strong 22 miler, a hard 12 miler that ended up being marathon pace, and a lot of 400m repetitions this week. I’m running the 2017 Cherry Blossom 10 Miler tomorrow! With only 35 days until the Eugene
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Nailed my interval workout on Tuesday and pushed hard to salvage my marathon pace workout on Thursday. At the end of the week, I got two recovery days since I’m switching my long runs to Sundays to line up hard
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I couldn’t train how I wanted this week. Between post-RnR DC Half Marathon recovery and snow, I didn’t run a lot of quality miles until later in the week. It’s 50 days until Eugene! Oh, and one month until Boston!!!
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One of the unexpected mental parts of running is how, despite dozens of races behind me, I still get anxious during race week. I ran less overall mileage this week but the average pace was faster – 8:27. Less than
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Solid training week. I ran a lot of miles around marathon pace. I’m running the Rock n Roll DC Half Marathon next weekend! Training Schedule Week 11: February 26th – March 4th Sunday: Recovery run. 8 miles + sprints Monday:
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