Adventures of a female master runner in Metropolitan Washington, DC.
After an easy start to the week, the workouts turned challenging with more miles at goal marathon pace on Wednesday. But, the training intensity and schedule finally seemed to click. Saturday’s long run was bitterly cold and windy but
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Wednesday’s 7 miles @ goal marathon pace surprised me – I didn’t expect much but I nailed it! Saturday’s long run went well, too. The weather was crazy this week – freezing temperatures one day and shorts weather a few
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This week, there were two “something of substance” workouts in my training schedule. On Monday, I ran a tiring but gratifying interval workout. Yesterday, I completed a long run that was speedier than usual and but felt comfortable!
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Only two workouts this week as my marathon taper started in earnest – a 17 mile long run on Sunday and 3×1 mile intervals on Thursday. As the temperature continued to drop, my training paces followed suit. I also took
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According to my training plan, I started my taper for the marathon this week! Sunday’s long run was my last 20 miler of this training cycle. Thanks to the cooler weather, my training paces dropped significantly. But, I suffered some
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This was the peak mileage week for this training cycle – 70 miles with only three more weeks of hard training to go! The weather finally dipped into a more runner-friendly range and my workout paces dropped. Training Schedule September
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I ran the 2018 Navy-Air Force Half Marathon on Sunday in 1:43:16 (7:53 pace). Hurricane Florence arrived on Sunday afternoon and it rained through Tuesday but morning temperature s stayed above 70 degrees. Despite the weather, I ran hard during
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Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue The 2018 Boston Marathon was going to cap a very long, and stressful training year! Last May, I started building mileage for the
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It was a tough week! My schedule didn’t have any easy days but I created one by taking Thursday off. My time from the Shamrock Half Marathon on Sunday and interval workout on Friday were both good indicators that I’m
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Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue Going into the race, I had been training for the 2018 Boston Marathon since January. After lots of slow running training for the 2018
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