Adventures of a female master runner in Metropolitan Washington, DC.
I kicked off my training for the 2017 Eugene Marathon this week! I ran every day and hit my mileage goal. The workouts left me tired and sore, though. I ate and slept well. Weather-wise, it was cold but not
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Nasty weather this week! Cold and windy, and then lots of ice on my long run today. It gave me an excuse to only run three days this week. On the bright side, chiropractic therapy seems to be helping my
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It was a great pre-training week! I’m running very well right now. I’m attributing it to the chiropractic treatment because I’m running mostly pain-free these days. But, winter arrived yesterday with sub-freezing temperatures and strong winds. Training Schedule December 4th
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I ran every day this week! Mostly easy miles but I introduced a little speed work and hill sprinting to wake up the legs. Physically, my hip felt a little better. But today, I wondered if I caught a cold…
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I returned to running regularly this week! It was hard fitting some of my runs in since I’ve started seeing a chiropractor on some mornings. It’s only been two weeks since I ran the New York City Marathon, so I’m
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Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue I ran the 2016 New York City Marathon two weeks ago. I took the next 6 days off and then eased back into running.
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I was pretty exhausted after the New York City Marathon on November 6th and took the next 6 days off from running. I eased back into it this week but only ran 3 days. I started chiropractic treatments to treat
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After a rest day on Sunday, I felt ready for a final push – two more hard weeks until my taper! Confident in my endurance, I wanted to run harder this week. I ran a tough interval workout on Tuesday,
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After the Parks Half Marathon on Sunday, I switched directions with my training this week and left my coach! For the rest of the week, I eased into doing more endurance runs with some strides. Training Schedule September 11th –
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The first repetition all downhill and fast. I ran a little harder than the conditions may have warranted but it still felt like marathon effort. But during the 5th repetition, I decided to dial things back significantly and mentally prepare myself to just finish.
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