Adventures of a female master runner in Metropolitan Washington, DC.
Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue Rock ‘n’ Roll DC has a special place in my heart because it’s the largest marathon entirely within the District of Columbia and, in
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One of the unexpected mental parts of running is how, despite dozens of races behind me, I still get anxious during race week. I ran less overall mileage this week but the average pace was faster – 8:27. Less than
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Solid training week. I ran a lot of miles around marathon pace. I’m running the Rock n Roll DC Half Marathon next weekend! Training Schedule Week 11: February 26th – March 4th Sunday: Recovery run. 8 miles + sprints Monday:
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Rebounded from slight over-training and ran a healthy dose of intervals and marathon paced miles this week. Seventy days from the Eugene Marathon, I got three indicators that I’m in about 3:30 marathon shape. Training Schedule Week 10: February 19th
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I did a lot of steady running this week in an attempt to recovery a bit. It’s amazing how cutting back just a little can make a huge difference. I got my mojo back! Training Schedule Week 9: February 12th
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Lately, I’ve been crushing my workouts but this week was the complete opposite. Missed goal paces, disrupted sleep, a blister… And skipped workouts! On the bright side, I made a regional runner ranking in my age group for 2016. Training
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I’m back, baby! Well, maybe not completely but I ran a repetition during Tuesday’s interval workout at PR 5K pace and today’s long run going clock-wise on the Arlington Loop was my second fastest ever! Snow made Monday’s run beautiful.
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This was the final week of my base building phase! Once again, I hit all my pace and mileage goals. Feeling fit, fast, and fierce! (In that order.) Now, I’ll work on developing some speed endurance through longer workouts just
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I hit all my goal paces during my workouts and ran some pretty good mileage! It would be greedy to ask for more. One more week of base building to go… Training Schedule Week 5: January 15th – January 21st
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My first 20 miler of the training cycle is done. I missed some speed work but ran a lot of miles that should help me in a marathon. My mantra was, Get fit! Training Schedule Week 4: January 8th –
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