Adventures of a female master runner in Metropolitan Washington, DC.
Training Schedule July 9th – July 15th Sunday: Long Run. 12 miles Monday: Off Tuesday: Speed Run. 12 x 400m @ 5K pace w/400m recoveries Wednesday: Easy Run. 6 miles Thursday: Easy Run. 6 miles Friday: Easy Run. 6 miles Saturday: Easy Run. 6 miles
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Training Schedule June 5th – June 11th Sunday: Long Run. 16 miles Monday: Rest or cross-train Tuesday: Lactate Threshold Run. 9 miles w/5 miles @ 15K to half marathon race pace Wednesday: Easy Run. 7 miles Thursday: Medium-long Run. 12 miles Friday: Easy Run.
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Training Schedule May 29th – June 4th Sunday: Rest or cross-train Monday: Medium-long Run. 15 miles Tuesday: Recovery Run. 4 miles Wednesday: General Aerobic Run + Speed. 9 miles w/6 x 10 sec. hill sprints + 8 x 100m strides Thursday: Recovery Run. 5 miles
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A very late year-end review for 2021! It was another year of injury and illness. Last February, I fell, breaking two fingers and skinning my knee! In May, I started training for the 2021 London Marathon (as part of the inaugural Wanda Age Group Championship). But in September, I tested positive for COVID-19! A month after recovering, I ran the 2021 Boston Marathon! Unfortunately, I did not re-qualify for next year’s race. For the rest of the year, I ran relatively low mileage but focused on interval training in an attempt to get my speed back in 2022.
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My training was locked in this week. I ran a solid 18 miler on Sunday, a Yasso 800 workout on Tuesday (that suggested I might be able to my 2022 Boston Marathon qualifying time) and a medium-long run on Thursday.
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I caught COVID-19! A few days after running the 2021 South Lakes 10K, I tested positive. I spent a week recovering before I resumed training but due to travel and testing complications, accepted that I shouldn’t attempt run the London Marathon. As the British say, I was “gutted” – extremely disappointed after all the training that I’ve done to miss out on the inaugural Wanda Age Group World Championship! But, the Boston Marathon is a pretty nice consolation prize.
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After staying up late on Saturday night, I pushed my first 22-mile effort of this training cycle to Monday. After my interval run on Wednesday, I skipped another workout for the week and did easy runs in preparation for the South Lakes 10K on Sunday! Finally, I’ll be racing in-person again!
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The weather was cooler than usual for my 18-miler on Sunday. On Tuesday, the temperature rose to the mid-70s for my 600m repeats workout. Due to near 80-degree heat, 7 miles @ goal marathon pace became marathon effort. After a check-up on Wednesday, I felt confident that whatever was negatively impacting my training in the fall of 2019 resolved itself but I have a long road back to my former fitness level.
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On Sunday, I belted out a 21-miler – my longest run by far since last April. I skipped Wednesday’s medium run, though. Now that COVID-19 cases in the county have dropped, I felt more comfortable returning to my gym. Next week might be interesting as the forecast calls for snow on Sunday…
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It was a busy week getting ready for my move to a new house! I completed a marathon-pace run on Sunday and stayed on schedule until Wednesday when I moved the training calendar forward a day in anticipation that I wouldn’t run long on moving day next Sunday. On Thursday evening, I stayed late at the new house but still ran the next day.
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