Adventures of a female master runner in Metropolitan Washington, DC.
I had a good result at the Army Ten Miler. It helped me set expectations for the New York City Marathon next month. This was the peak week in my training schedule and it featured three pretty hard workouts one
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After a rest day on Sunday, I felt ready for a final push – two more hard weeks until my taper! Confident in my endurance, I wanted to run harder this week. I ran a tough interval workout on Tuesday,
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I ran in all three local jurisdictions – Maryland for a race, the District of Columbia during a few run commutes, and Virginia for my usual runs. I focused on endurance runs with a little faster stuff mixed in. By
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Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Training I’ve been training for the New York City Marathon since late June/early July. It’s been rough going. I never quite hit my workouts in
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I changed my training plan a lot this week. I did a tempo run on Tuesday. It left me tired and sore by mid-week. But, that run coupled with a medium run at the end of the week helped me
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After the Parks Half Marathon on Sunday, I switched directions with my training this week and left my coach! For the rest of the week, I eased into doing more endurance runs with some strides. Training Schedule September 11th –
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Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue I’ve been using Hudson Elite Coaching to train for the 2016 New York City Marathon. This training cycle hasn’t been easy. I haven’t been
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I overdid it a little on Sunday and Monday by logging 30 miles in two days! I felt terrible every morning after that but strangely, I ran pretty well! I’m thinking 8:00 pace for the Parks Half Marathon tomorrow but
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This may be one of my shortest training posts I’ve ever done because I only had one workout this week. Last Saturday’s long run took so much out of me that my coach assigned easy running for the other days.
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The first repetition all downhill and fast. I ran a little harder than the conditions may have warranted but it still felt like marathon effort. But during the 5th repetition, I decided to dial things back significantly and mentally prepare myself to just finish.
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