Adventures of a female master runner in Metropolitan Washington, DC.
After I trying Hansons marathon training plan for the 2015 California International Marathon (CIM) in December and being disappointed with my time, I decided to try a plan in Brad Hudson and Matt Fitzgerald’s book, Run Faster From the 5K
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Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue After completing the 2015 California International Marathon (CIM) in December, I started training for the 2016 Boston Marathon only a month later. This would
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I started the week with an absolutely brutal long run through a lot of snow packed rail-trails and ended the week with a hill repeat workout on dead legs. Yay! During both, I reminded myself I’m a Boston Marathoner and
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The mid-Atlantic was hit by a snow storm last Friday through Sunday. The roads and trails were snow and ice covered for days after. For this training week, I took Sunday and Monday off. By Tuesday, I drove to my
Continue readingI came off a recovery week that ended the base building phase of my training for the Boston Marathon. I embraced the adaptive training philosophy and departed from the back-of-the-book schedule in Hudson book and created my own plan for
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A recovery week! It was fantastic having a week of relative low mileage. I actually took today off. I didn’t sleep well a few nights, though, so it wasn’t as restful as it could have been. Still, by mid-week, I
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Winter made an abrupt appearance on Tuesday with air temperatures in the teens and 20s. I did my interval workout on the treadmill. By mid-week, the temperatures were back to normal. Running-wise, I went back to the basics and tried
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I’m trying to gradually build mileage even though my body is still trying to recover from the California International Marathon. Generally, I feel pretty good. I’ve been wearing a heart rate monitor during my runs to keep my easy paces
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Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Training I ran the California International Marathon three and a half weeks ago. I took two weeks off and then started training for the Boston
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Most Memorable Races Ragnar Cape Cod. The camaraderie I have with this group of women is so special to me. And, we’re still asking one another, “Do you want a salt pill?” The Boston Marathon. The hills did not defeat
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