Adventures of a female master runner in Metropolitan Washington, DC.
Training Mileage Total: 3,051 miles* Time Spent Running: ~18 days, 15 hours* Average Pace: 8:48 pace Longest Run (Distance): 26.2 miles at the 2016 Boston and New York City marathons Longest Run (Time): 3:41:37 at the 2016 Boston Marathon Hottest
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Bought a few pieces at the New York City Marathon. “The world is but a treat when you’re on Easy Street”. (Sorry.) Mentally, trying to steel myself to train for yet another attempt at sub-3:20 in the marathon. Caught up
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Start spreading the news – I officially started training for the New York City Marathon this week! The first workout was a little rough with 75+ degree temperatures and 90% humidity. But, the week ended well with a fun tempo
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This week, I started the sharpening phase of my marathon training. Sunday’s long run went well but took a lot out of me. By Tuesday’s workout, I was still too tired to hit my goal paces no matter how hard
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Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue After completing the California International Marathon (CIM) in December, I started training for the 2016 Boston Marathon a month later. The Rock ‘n’ Roll
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I thought endurance was missing in my last marathon cycle so I’ve been trying to run long and slow for my long runs. I started the week with a 22 miler and mid-week ran 14 miler. But, this was a
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