Adventures of a female master runner in Metropolitan Washington, DC.
A recovery week! It was fantastic having a week of relative low mileage. I actually took today off. I didn’t sleep well a few nights, though, so it wasn’t as restful as it could have been. Still, by mid-week, I
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I’m baaaack! I started training for the 2016 Boston Marathon this week. I took 5 days completely off after the California International Marathon (CIM). My rule is to take as many days off from running as I want. I like
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Three weeks to go! It feels great to be on the last page of my training plan. The biggest development this week is that I decided to stop beating myself up during my training runs and tried to get a
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Today’s 20 miler – my first of the training cycle – with 10 miles at goal marathon pace weighed on my mind all week. Sub-3:20 (7:38 pace) has been a goal of mine for a couple of years now and
Continue readingI had two tough workouts this week. I did alright with the intervals on Monday even though I struggled a little in the middle. But, I couldn’t pull off the goal marathon pace (GMP) tempo workout on Wednesday. (“Again!“) After
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Things really escalated quickly this week! Overall mileage hit 70 miles a week and I had three really hard workouts – 800m intervals, 8 miles at goal marathon pace (GMP), and an 18 mile long run. How rough was it?
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This week, I reached that point in marathon training where I feel like I’m on auto-pilot. I woke up at 5:30am (or earlier) every day and got out of bed without too much resistance. I completed all my scheduled workouts
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