Adventures of a female master runner in Metropolitan Washington, DC.
This week, I started the sharpening phase of my marathon training. Sunday’s long run went well but took a lot out of me. By Tuesday’s workout, I was still too tired to hit my goal paces no matter how hard
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Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue After completing the California International Marathon (CIM) in December, I started training for the 2016 Boston Marathon a month later. The Rock ‘n’ Roll
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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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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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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
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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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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Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. I ran two races this week! I was already planning to run the Firecracker 5K on the Fourth of July. But, at the last minute,
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