Author: JT Running DC

2019 New York City Marathon - Week 5 Infographic

2019 New York City Marathon – Week 5

It was Labor Day on Monday and I could have moved my workouts around a bit to take advantage of the extra time but I still took the day off. My sleep was terrible this week as I adjusted back to East Coast time. I ended the week with a relatively fast long run, though!

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2019 New York City Marathon - Week 3 Infographic

2019 New York City Marathon – Week 3

Two weeks into my 2019 New York City Marathon training cycle and I traveled for work.  I arrived in Athens, Greece on Thursday and even though I was jet-lagged, completed a treadmill run in that night.  Out on the roads the next day, I was rewarded with two amazing sights!

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My 2019 New York City Marathon Training Plan

In May, I finished the 2019 Cleveland Marathon in 3:56:40 (9:02 pace).  It was a brutally hot day and only a few weeks after I completed the 2019 Boston Marathon, so I decided to run easy for a few weeks.  In contemplating a fall marathon plan, I wasn’t going to make the 2019 New York City Marathon my goal because I would be taking a long work trip at the end of August.  But after a week of doing a lot of miles on the treadmill and realizing my last race was almost two months ago, I suddenly felt as though the break had gone long enough.

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