Adventures of a female master runner in Metropolitan Washington, DC.
How quickly things change! Last week, I felt invincible. Then, I tripped and injured my knee during my long run on Sunday – the first day of my peak training week. I took Monday off but ran through pain the
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This week, I started the sharpening phase of my marathon training. Sunday’s long run went well but took a lot out of me. By Tuesday’s workout, I was still too tired to hit my goal paces no matter how hard
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I had a sluggish start to the week as muscle soreness from Saturday’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Half Marathon hit me hard on Monday and Tuesday. Adjusting to Daylight Savings Time was no picnic either. I did the rare run commute
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Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue After completing the California International Marathon (CIM) in December, I started training for the 2016 Boston Marathon a month later. The Rock ‘n’ Roll
Continue readingStrong week! I ran a 22 miler on Sunday and a ran two easy runs on Monday. I had a rough interval workout on Tuesday and then cut-back my mileage in preparation for my first “tune up” race of this
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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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Confident in my endurance when Sunday’s long run wasn’t completely miserable, I started layering faster miles into my workouts this week. I’ve been trying to go to bed earlier to get more sleep and that seemed to help my training.
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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
Continue reading“Why on earth would I want to run twice a day when I can just run once a day?” This must have been what I thought when I first read about running twice-a-day (also known as running a “double” or
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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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