Adventures of a female master runner in Metropolitan Washington, DC.
I ran 400m repetitions on Monday and 1,200m intervals on Thursday. My “long” run today was only 9 miles. For cross training, I lifted weights three days this week. And, I had my first “normal” blood pressure reading in a
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This week was all about adjusting. I started running regularly again and followed a schedule from Daniels’ Running Formula, which included two speed workouts. I also lifted weights for the first time in years. But, the biggest change was starting
Continue readingTwo and a half weeks ago, I finished the cold, rainy, and windy 2018 Boston Marathon! Thoroughly warm and dry, it’s time to look back at my last training cycle and ahead to the summer. I’ll start training for the
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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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It was the last week of my taper before the 2018 Boston Marathon! I thought my mileage was a little high so I cut some miles off my recovery runs at the end of the week. The race is tomorrow
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The first week of my taper! I ran the final hard workouts of the training cycle this week – a long run on Sunday and an interval workout on Friday. I focused on running my recovery days legitimately easy. Training
Continue readingMy last high mileage week before tapering! I had some pain in my left knee early in the week but it went away by Tuesday. Winter finally gave up its frigid, windy grip on Thursday and spring arrived! After the
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It was a tough week! My schedule didn’t have any easy days but I created one by taking Thursday off. My time from the Shamrock Half Marathon on Sunday and interval workout on Friday were both good indicators that I’m
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After powering through last week’s peak mileage week, I only ran one hard workout during this cut-back week – a general aerobic run on Thursday. Monday’s interval workout was a bust. I took Tuesday off and ran easy for the
Continue readingI made it through the peak mileage week for this training cycle – over 85 miles total! It kicked off with the 2018 Reston 10 Miler where I ran 1:19:19 (7:56 pace) and finished with a 22 miler in 3:17:58
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