Adventures of a female master runner in Metropolitan Washington, DC.
Sunday’s double in 80 degree heat almost turned into a medical emergency. On Thursday, I just couldn’t will myself to run in the heat again and my weekly mileage suffered for it. Generally, I find myself trying to reconcile two very different training adaptations – running 26 miles fast and completing 50 miles slow.
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This week was supposed to start the race preparation cycle of my training, but I was down and out with a cold for three days! Fall officially arrived on Sunday but the temperatures in the Washington, DC region were still breaking records.
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It was a bit of a recovery week before I started the race preparation phase of my 2019 New York City Marathon training cycle. And, I moved a few workouts around so I would have two easy days before the 2019 Ragnar Sunset Washington DC.
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Running 28 miles over the weekend left me exhausted by Monday night and I slept for 9 hours! My weekday runs were good, but not great, which was confirmation that my body needed recovery. But, I finished my 20 mile long run on Saturday feeling marathon-ready!
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It was Labor Day on Monday and I could have moved my workouts around a bit to take advantage of the extra time but I still took the day off. My sleep was terrible this week as I adjusted back to East Coast time. I ended the week with a relatively fast long run, though!
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For most of the week, I was in Athens, Greece, having arrived last Thursday. Even though I never found a trail or track, I completed a speed workout on Thursday. My return flight landed on Friday night and I ran long the next day!
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Two weeks into my 2019 New York City Marathon training cycle and I traveled for work. I arrived in Athens, Greece on Thursday and even though I was jet-lagged, completed a treadmill run in that night. Out on the roads the next day, I was rewarded with two amazing sights!
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A six hour hike in the Shenandoah Valley on Sunday wrecked my legs but I re-bounded by mid-wee. I ran two 11 milers and finished the week with a 15 miler in 80+ degree heat.
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Week 1 of my New York City Marathon training cycle featured a nice mix of long intervals and steady endurance running before a weekend trip to the Shenandoah Valley.
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In May, I finished the 2019 Cleveland Marathon in 3:56:40 (9:02 pace). It was a brutally hot day and only a few weeks after I completed the 2019 Boston Marathon, so I decided to run easy for a few weeks. In contemplating a fall marathon plan, I wasn’t going to make the 2019 New York City Marathon my goal because I would be taking a long work trip at the end of August. But after a week of doing a lot of miles on the treadmill and realizing my last race was almost two months ago, I suddenly felt as though the break had gone long enough.
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