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 The Rock ‘n’ Roll DC Half Marathon starts the racing season in Washington, DC. Since 2008, I’ve run the full or half every year
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Going into the race, I felt great! I got side-stitches early in the race but ran through them. It was a little congested in the middle miles but I navigated it. I finished in 29:29 (7:23 pace).
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Scroll all the way down to the end for the tl;dr version. Prologue I started training for the New York City Marathon in July using an 18-week training plan from Advanced Marathoning, Second Edition by Pete Pfitzinger. At the time,
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Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue With 35,000 registered runners, the Army Ten Miler is one of the most popular races in Washington, D.C. This would be my 10th time
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Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the abridged version. Prologue Going into the race, I’d been training for the 2018 New York City Marathon since July using the 18 week, 55-70 miles per week
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Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue After running my slowest marathon ever at the 2018 Boston Marathon, I wanted to run stress-free this summer and focus on speed work before
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Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue The 2018 Boston Marathon was going to cap a very long, and stressful training year! Last May, I started building mileage for the
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Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue Going into the race, I had been training for the 2018 Boston Marathon since January. After lots of slow running training for the 2018
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Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue I was mid-way through training for the 2018 Boston Marathon before the race. I wanted to run my first tune-up race a little earlier
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Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue Inspired by the Barkley Marathons documentary and a Marathon Talk episode with Elisabet Barnes describing the Marathon de Sables, I thought I might try
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