Adventures of a female master runner in Metropolitan Washington, DC.
Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue I continued my race a weekend streak. This summer, I ran the Capitol Hill Classic 10K, Alexandria Running Festival Half Marathon, Belmont Bay Belmont
Continue readingScroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue I’ve been racing every weekend this summer. In the past month, I’ve done the Capitol Hill Classic 10K, Alexandria Running Festival Half Marathon, Belmont
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Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue I had a mild case of post-marathon blues after the 2017 Eugene Marathon and thought racing more would help. In the past month, I’ve
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Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue It’s been a month since I ran the Eugene Marathon. I took 10 days off after that race and still didn’t feel like running
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Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue It took me a while to feel like running again after the Eugene Marathon. I took a week and a half off and then
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Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue I ran the 2017 Eugene Marathon two weeks ago. This would be my first hard effort since then. After the race, I employed my
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Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue I started training for the Eugene Marathon back in December and created my own training plan each week. Overall, it was a great training
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Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue This would be my fifth Boston Marathon. My first was in 2012 – the most recent “hot year”. I skipped 2013 – the year
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Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue The Cherry Blossom 10 Miler is one of the premier racing events in Washington, D.C. It features a competitive elite field and thousands of
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Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue Rock ‘n’ Roll DC has a special place in my heart because it’s the largest marathon entirely within the District of Columbia and, in
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