Adventures of a female master runner in Metropolitan Washington, DC.
This week, there were two “something of substance” workouts in my training schedule. On Monday, I ran a tiring but gratifying interval workout. Yesterday, I completed a long run that was speedier than usual and but felt comfortable!
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Following a month of running very sporadically after the 2018 New York City Marathon, I completed my first week of training for the 2019 Boston Marathon! I’m following the Advanced Plan in Hansons Marathon Method this training cycle. I only had one “something of substance” workout.
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The 2019 Boston Marathon is on Monday, April 15th. For this training cycle, I chose the “Advanced” plan from Hansons Marathon Method by Luke Humphrey as my foundation. The schedule is 18 weeks, which made my start date December 10th.
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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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It was the last week of my 2018 New York City Marathon taper! Usually, I run these last workouts too hard but my hips were so sore that I surrendered to easy paces. It may be a stretch, but my
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Only two workouts this week as my marathon taper started in earnest – a 17 mile long run on Sunday and 3×1 mile intervals on Thursday. As the temperature continued to drop, my training paces followed suit. I also took
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According to my training plan, I started my taper for the marathon this week! Sunday’s long run was my last 20 miler of this training cycle. Thanks to the cooler weather, my training paces dropped significantly. But, I suffered some
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My time at Sunday’s hot and humid Army Ten Miler was 1:18:49 (7:53 pace). Tuesday’s interval workout was already going terribly when I encountered a three-mile detour around the 14th Street Bridge. By Thursday, I gave up on 70+ degree
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The week started hard – 18 miles w/14 miles @ goal marathon pace on Sunday – but then eased up before the 2018 Army Ten Miler. I ran well enough but felt run down after suffering from sore quadriceps and
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This was the peak mileage week for this training cycle – 70 miles with only three more weeks of hard training to go! The weather finally dipped into a more runner-friendly range and my workout paces dropped. Training Schedule September
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