Author: JT Running DC

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2021 Boston Marathon – Week 4

On Sunday, I ran a final 20 miler for confidence and then started tapering for the Boston Marathon! Almost every run featured tears as I grappled with the personal struggles from the past two years. Struggling to put my London Marathon trying cycle behind me as that race approached, I finally started my itinerary for the Boston Marathon on Saturday.

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2021 Boston Marathon - Week 2

2021 Boston Marathon – Week 2

This was my first full week of training since deciding not to run the London Marathon and focusing on the Boston Marathon instead. I was fairly aggressive and ran a 16 mile long run on Sunday, 1000m repeats on Tuesday, concluding with a 14-mile medium run on Thursday.

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2021 Boston Marathon – Week 1

I caught COVID-19! A few days after running the 2021 South Lakes 10K, I tested positive. I spent a week recovering before I resumed training but due to travel and testing complications, accepted that I shouldn’t attempt run the London Marathon. As the British say, I was “gutted” – extremely disappointed after all the training that I’ve done to miss out on the inaugural Wanda Age Group World Championship! But, the Boston Marathon is a pretty nice consolation prize.

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2021 South Lakes 10K

Prologue My last in-person race was the 2020 Reston 10 Miler.  Shortly thereafter, the COVID-19 pandemic struck, and the 2020 Boston Marathon., the race that I was training for, was canceled.  I held out hope that the 2020 London Marathon and inaugural Wanda

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2021 London Marathon – Week 15

After staying up late on Saturday night, I pushed my first 22-mile effort of this training cycle to Monday. After my interval run on Wednesday, I skipped another workout for the week and did easy runs in preparation for the South Lakes 10K on Sunday! Finally, I’ll be racing in-person again!

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2021 London Marathon – Week 14

With 14 weeks of training in my legs, my motivation started to fade a bit this week but I still got my workouts in. I kept my regular schedule, running long on Sunday, intervals on Tuesday, and medium on Thursday. On Friday afternoon, I did my easy run downtown for a change.

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2021 London Marathon – Week 11

After running the Roosevelt Island DC Parkrun the day before, I skipped my long run on Sunday and decided to just pick up where I left off with speed-work on Tuesday. Otherwise, it was an uneventful week as I continued watching COVID-19 rates in the UK.

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