Adventures of a female master runner in Metropolitan Washington, DC.
This was my first week my Hudson Elite coach! (Although mentally, I’m not officially training for the New York City Marathon until late June.) My coach introduced a little speed work into my schedule with a fartlek run on Tuesday
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After weeks of cloudy skies, the sun finally appeared on Tuesday. I ran well until Saturday when summer arrived with a vengeance and I wilted in the heat. But the big news of the week was that I’ll be working
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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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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
Continue readingI had two tough workouts this week. I did alright with the intervals on Monday even though I struggled a little in the middle. But, I couldn’t pull off the goal marathon pace (GMP) tempo workout on Wednesday. (“Again!“) After
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It was a pretty good training week. My run on Monday was a little rough, but the others weren’t so bad. Overall, I was a little tired but that’s to be expected when you’re starting marathon training. My runs this
Continue readingI completed the first week of training for the 2015 California International Marathon! I thought I would post weekly updates on how my training is going. As I was thinking about how to format them, I thought maybe it would
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My summer racing season has come to an end. I ran two races at the end of July – the Rockville Twilighter 8K and the Crystal City Twilighter 5K. Scroll all the way down to the end of the post
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This week, I had my first visit to the track since last summer. For the past year, I’ve been doing interval workouts on the trail or the treadmill either due to weather conditions or to avoid crowds at the track.
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This race report was originally posted on the RunningAhead community boards on April 17, 2012. Some content has been edited since that initial publication.
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