Adventures of a female master runner in Metropolitan Washington, DC.
Lately, I’ve been crushing my workouts but this week was the complete opposite. Missed goal paces, disrupted sleep, a blister… And skipped workouts! On the bright side, I made a regional runner ranking in my age group for 2016. Training
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I’m back, baby! Well, maybe not completely but I ran a repetition during Tuesday’s interval workout at PR 5K pace and today’s long run going clock-wise on the Arlington Loop was my second fastest ever! Snow made Monday’s run beautiful.
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This was the final week of my base building phase! Once again, I hit all my pace and mileage goals. Feeling fit, fast, and fierce! (In that order.) Now, I’ll work on developing some speed endurance through longer workouts just
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I hit all my goal paces during my workouts and ran some pretty good mileage! It would be greedy to ask for more. One more week of base building to go… Training Schedule Week 5: January 15th – January 21st
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My first 20 miler of the training cycle is done. I missed some speed work but ran a lot of miles that should help me in a marathon. My mantra was, Get fit! Training Schedule Week 4: January 8th –
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Brrr! It got cold this week. It snowed overnight Thursday and again today. My piriformis pain returned but it wasn’t severe. I ran two hard workouts this week – a 12 miler with some half marathon and marathon pace miles
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I front-loaded the workouts this week so I could run long on Friday and race on Saturday night. I ran well but I was tired by the end of the week. Ran in some rain and wind. I didn’t have
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I kicked off my training for the 2017 Eugene Marathon this week! I ran every day and hit my mileage goal. The workouts left me tired and sore, though. I ate and slept well. Weather-wise, it was cold but not
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Nasty weather this week! Cold and windy, and then lots of ice on my long run today. It gave me an excuse to only run three days this week. On the bright side, chiropractic therapy seems to be helping my
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Introduction I’m planning to run the 2017 Eugene Marathon on May 7, 2017. I chose this race because from what I’ve read it’s a) fairly flat, b) in a city I’d like to visit, and c) it finishes on Hayward
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