Adventures of a female master runner in Metropolitan Washington, DC.
Prologue My last race was the 2022 Erie Marathon, where I successfully re-qualified for next year’s Boston Marathon! The next day, I broke my right pinky toe on the coffee table and took several weeks off running. I began running again before
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Prologue My last marathon was the 2021 Boston Marathon. Unfortunately, I ran a disappointing 4:12:00, which didn’t re-qualify me for next year’s race! After running eight consecutive Boston Marathons, I left the finish line area wondering if I’d ever run
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Prologue A few days after finishing last year’s race, I tested positive for COVID-19. The illness led me to drop out of the 2021 London Marathon due to travel restrictions to the U.K.. It meant I lost my chance to participate in
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The Cherry Blossom 10 Miler is the premier racing event in Washington, D.C. I was excited about its post-COVID 19 return!
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In November, after a disappointing 2021 Boston Marathon, I planned to do a “speed” cycle with the 2022 Rock ‘n’ Roll DC Half Marathon as my goal event.
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During the first two miles, I ran easy out of respect for the hills. By the second mile, I adopted a strategy of taking the downhills hard and the uphills easy. By Mile 9, I passed all the women I had been going back and forth with during the earlier miles, so I felt my plan had paid off. My time was 1:24:38 (8:28 pace) – about where I thought I would be. After the race, I plugged my time into the McMillan Running Calculator and got a marathon time of 3:57:34 (9:04 pace). I’ll need to get a bit faster if I hope to re-qualify for the 2023 Boston Marathon with a sub-3:55:00 (8:59 pace) in September.
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A very late year-end review for 2021! It was another year of injury and illness. Last February, I fell, breaking two fingers and skinning my knee! In May, I started training for the 2021 London Marathon (as part of the inaugural Wanda Age Group Championship). But in September, I tested positive for COVID-19! A month after recovering, I ran the 2021 Boston Marathon! Unfortunately, I did not re-qualify for next year’s race. For the rest of the year, I ran relatively low mileage but focused on interval training in an attempt to get my speed back in 2022.
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This week, I only had two workouts – a medium-long run on Sunday and a marathon-pace workout on Thursday. Mostly, I prepared to race and accept that I may not re-qualify for the Boston Marathon. But, one month after having COVID-19 and having to skip the London Marathon, I’m grateful for the opportunity to start. On Friday, my partner and I left Washington, D.C., and made our way to Boston by way of New York City.
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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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2020 started optimistically! In December, I joined an online group to train for the 2020 Boston Marathon and was starting to feel better after a disappointing 2019 New York City Marathon.
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