Adventures of a female master runner in Metropolitan Washington, DC.
I’m baaaack! I started training for the 2016 Boston Marathon this week. I took 5 days completely off after the California International Marathon (CIM). My rule is to take as many days off from running as I want. I like
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This should be a shorter post than the one I wrote about choosing my training plan for last fall. Back then, I was torn between the Hansons and Hudson plan and ultimately chose the former. Now, I’m going to choose
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Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue I’d been chasing sub-3:20 in the marathon since training for the 2012 New York City Marathon. The race was cancelled that year, but I’ve
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The race is less than 24 hours away! My final taper week went well. As usual, I felt slow and sluggish; existing pains seemed worse and new pains came and went out of no where. I arrived in Sacramento yesterday
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Am I tapering, yet? With most plans, I can figure out when the taper starts pretty clearly. But with this one, I’m not so sure. I had a day off on Wednesday, ending an 84 day running steak, and the
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Three weeks to go! It feels great to be on the last page of my training plan. The biggest development this week is that I decided to stop beating myself up during my training runs and tried to get a
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The week started with the New York City Marathon and I picked up my training the next day with an easy run through Central Park. I had two workouts this week but instead of training by pace, I just tried
Continue readingScroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue My first New York City Marathon (NYCM) was supposed to be the 2012 race. It was cancelled due to Hurricane Sandy. I had trained
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For the past week, the weather has consistently dipped below 60 degrees in the morning, which in my mind means… It’s time to break out the fall running clothes and gear! Light Long Sleeve Shirts I have at least a
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What a tough week! It started with the Parks Half Marathon on Sunday. After that, I took two days easy and got back on schedule with a progression run on Wednesday followed by a long run on Saturday with 8
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