Adventures of a female master runner in Metropolitan Washington, DC.
Between the heat and humidity, I hit a wall this week physically and mentally. Tuesday’s interval workout left me completely wrecked. Wednesday’s moderate run wasn’t much better. So, I ran today’s tempo run inside on a treadmill. That was better.
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Only two workouts this week as my coach transitions me to a 10-day training schedule. I managed half marathon pace pretty well during Wednesday’s tempo run but was no where close to hitting marathon pace for four miles on Saturday’s
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This wasn’t one of my strongest training weeks. It started out alright with a 5K where the weather was cool and I ran better than expected. But, it ended with a missed morning workout which led to an evening tempo
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Start spreading the news – I officially started training for the New York City Marathon this week! The first workout was a little rough with 75+ degree temperatures and 90% humidity. But, the week ended well with a fun tempo
Continue readingIt was a good training week even though I didn’t get much sleep. I flew to San Diego for a friend’s wedding on Friday. I only had two workouts – a tempo run on Wednesday and a half marathon/long run
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Here’s a marathon training tip for you: don’t do a hard 15 miler the day before a tempo run. This week, I learned that lesson the hard way and went to a very painful place. Somehow, I came out of
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I thought endurance was missing in my last marathon cycle so I’ve been trying to run long and slow for my long runs. I started the week with a 22 miler and mid-week ran 14 miler. But, this was a
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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
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Winter made an abrupt appearance on Tuesday with air temperatures in the teens and 20s. I did my interval workout on the treadmill. By mid-week, the temperatures were back to normal. Running-wise, I went back to the basics and tried
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