Adventures of a female master runner in Metropolitan Washington, DC.
Like most runners in the area, I’m done with summer. To get me through this week, I relied on fun music to lift my mood and new gear. On my runs this week, there were safety concerns, hazards, and interesting animal sightings on the rail trails.
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It’s been an Olympic Week! “One Moment in Time” came up on my playlist and inspired a couple of workouts. I tried some new products for fueling my runs and traded big spaghetti dinners for bland salmon with rice the
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I think I have enough gear to keep me running through November. I also stocked up on electrolytes and gels for the hot summer months ahead. For motivation, Spotify finally delivered some new tunes I liked. And, the Olympic
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I bought new shoes this week – the Brooks Ghosts. They seem promising. How exciting have the Olympic Track & Field trials been? That women’s 800m final? I got stopped in the grocery store to talk about. I also got
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Clothing & Gear Shoes. I forgot to mention in last week’s supplemental post that I got a new pair of Mizuno Wave Rider 19s. First things first, I blinged them out with shoe charms! I’ve worn this shoe for at
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Prologue (If you’re not familiar with Ragnar, my race report from last year has a brief description of how it works.) Ragnar Cape Cod is a relay race from Hull, MA to Provincetown (aka “P-Town”). It’s a little under 200
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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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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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I had a sluggish start to the week as muscle soreness from Saturday’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Half Marathon hit me hard on Monday and Tuesday. Adjusting to Daylight Savings Time was no picnic either. I did the rare run commute
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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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