Adventures of a female master runner in Metropolitan Washington, DC.
I’m back, baby! Well, maybe not completely but I ran a repetition during Tuesday’s interval workout at PR 5K pace and today’s long run going clock-wise on the Arlington Loop was my second fastest ever! Snow made Monday’s run beautiful.
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My first 20 miler of the training cycle is done. I missed some speed work but ran a lot of miles that should help me in a marathon. My mantra was, Get fit! Training Schedule Week 4: January 8th –
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Brrr! It got cold this week. It snowed overnight Thursday and again today. My piriformis pain returned but it wasn’t severe. I ran two hard workouts this week – a 12 miler with some half marathon and marathon pace miles
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Training Mileage Total: 3,051 miles* Time Spent Running: ~18 days, 15 hours* Average Pace: 8:48 pace Longest Run (Distance): 26.2 miles at the 2016 Boston and New York City marathons Longest Run (Time): 3:41:37 at the 2016 Boston Marathon Hottest
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A grueling week! I relied on the treadmill and my new Yaktrax to deal with bad weather on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. It was so miserable that I was thrilled with 32 degree temperatures and heavy rain one day! But, the
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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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The mid-Atlantic was hit by a snow storm last Friday through Sunday. The roads and trails were snow and ice covered for days after. For this training week, I took Sunday and Monday off. By Tuesday, I drove to my
Continue readingI came off a recovery week that ended the base building phase of my training for the Boston Marathon. I embraced the adaptive training philosophy and departed from the back-of-the-book schedule in Hudson book and created my own plan for
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