Adventures of a female master runner in Metropolitan Washington, DC.
For most of the week, I was in Athens, Greece, having arrived last Thursday. Even though I never found a trail or track, I completed a speed workout on Thursday. My return flight landed on Friday night and I ran long the next day!
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Two weeks into my 2019 New York City Marathon training cycle and I traveled for work. I arrived in Athens, Greece on Thursday and even though I was jet-lagged, completed a treadmill run in that night. Out on the roads the next day, I was rewarded with two amazing sights!
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In May, I finished the 2019 Cleveland Marathon in 3:56:40 (9:02 pace). It was a brutally hot day and only a few weeks after I completed the 2019 Boston Marathon, so I decided to run easy for a few weeks. In contemplating a fall marathon plan, I wasn’t going to make the 2019 New York City Marathon my goal because I would be taking a long work trip at the end of August. But after a week of doing a lot of miles on the treadmill and realizing my last race was almost two months ago, I suddenly felt as though the break had gone long enough.
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Training [dropshadowbox align=”center” effect=”raised” width=”875px” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”4″ border_color=”#d0021b” rounded_corners=”false” outside_shadow=”false” ]Mileage Total: 2,634.5 miles Days of Running: 281 days (84 days off) Time Spent Running: ~16 days, 19 hours Average Pace: 9:11 pace Longest Run (Distance): 46 miles on
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Scroll all the way down to the end for the tl;dr version. Prologue I started training for the New York City Marathon in July using an 18-week training plan from Advanced Marathoning, Second Edition by Pete Pfitzinger. At the time,
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It was the last week of my 2018 New York City Marathon taper! Usually, I run these last workouts too hard but my hips were so sore that I surrendered to easy paces. It may be a stretch, but my
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According to my training plan, I started my taper for the marathon this week! Sunday’s long run was my last 20 miler of this training cycle. Thanks to the cooler weather, my training paces dropped significantly. But, I suffered some
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My time at Sunday’s hot and humid Army Ten Miler was 1:18:49 (7:53 pace). Tuesday’s interval workout was already going terribly when I encountered a three-mile detour around the 14th Street Bridge. By Thursday, I gave up on 70+ degree
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The week started hard – 18 miles w/14 miles @ goal marathon pace on Sunday – but then eased up before the 2018 Army Ten Miler. I ran well enough but felt run down after suffering from sore quadriceps and
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This was the peak mileage week for this training cycle – 70 miles with only three more weeks of hard training to go! The weather finally dipped into a more runner-friendly range and my workout paces dropped. Training Schedule September
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