Adventures of a female master runner in Metropolitan Washington, DC.
It was the first week of my new training cycle! Even though there isn’t a goal race on my calendar, the prospect of getting faster is providing motivation. On Saturday, I even scoped out my neighborhood track for next week’s interval workout.
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I discovered art off the running trail near Bluemont Park and had two deer flybys. I’ve been running so many doubles that I ran out of shorts. I bought a new iPod but shattered it already. And, I listened a
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Rebounded from slight over-training and ran a healthy dose of intervals and marathon paced miles this week. Seventy days from the Eugene Marathon, I got three indicators that I’m in about 3:30 marathon shape. Training Schedule Week 10: February 19th
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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 ran to work two days this week. During previous marathon training cycles, I ran to work regularly. Running to work allowed me to use the 45 minutes I spent commuting that day for my workout instead. For example, it
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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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