Adventures of a female master runner in Metropolitan Washington, DC.
The question I’m getting most these days is, “What are you doing next?” I’ve been so marathon focused these past 10 months that I didn’t give much thought to what I’d be doing after the Boston Marathon. (Other than recovery.
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The desire to run is slowly returning. I decided to run “long” today. I went back and forth on how far that would mean. An hour and a half seemed reasonable. I settled on an 11 mile loop that didn’t
Continue readingToday, I ran for the second time since the Boston Marathon. When I’m training, I typically run everyday. Since I’ve essentially been marathon training since last June, this break was welcomed and overdue. I like to give myself as much
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Training I did a modified Pfitzinger Advanced Marathoning, 18 week/85 miles a week plan. However, my goal race for the spring was RnR DC. After that race, I took three days off and then started training again. Unfortunately, about a
Continue readingThis is the first post of a blog where I’ll chronicle some of my running adventures – training, racing, and all the big and small details surrounding the two. I’m writing primarily for friends and acquaintances who are mid-packers like
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This race report was originally posted on the RunningAhead community boards in November 2014. Some content has been edited since that initial publication. Prologue I’m tired. See my Marine Corps Marathon Race Report. I’ll just add some details about this last week. As
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This race report was originally posted on the RunningAhead community boards in October 2014. Some content has been edited since that initial publication. Prologue “Have you run Marine Corps?” As a marathoner in the area, I was continually asked this question and I
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This race report was originally posted on the RunningAhead community boards on April 22, 2014. Some content has been edited since that initial publication. Prologue “I think there was a bombing at the Boston Marathon?” I think those were the words that I
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This race report was originally published on the RunningAhead forums on November 4, 2013. Some of the content has been edited since the initial publication. Scroll all the way down to the end for the tl;dr version. Prologue The New
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This race report was originally posted on the RunningAhead community boards on April 17, 2012. Some content has been edited since that initial publication.
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