Adventures of a female master runner in Metropolitan Washington, DC.
Winter made an abrupt appearance on Tuesday with air temperatures in the teens and 20s. I did my interval workout on the treadmill. By mid-week, the temperatures were back to normal. Running-wise, I went back to the basics and tried
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I’m trying to gradually build mileage even though my body is still trying to recover from the California International Marathon. Generally, I feel pretty good. I’ve been wearing a heart rate monitor during my runs to keep my easy paces
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Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Training I ran the California International Marathon three and a half weeks ago. I took two weeks off and then started training for the Boston
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Most Memorable Races Ragnar Cape Cod. The camaraderie I have with this group of women is so special to me. And, we’re still asking one another, “Do you want a salt pill?” The Boston Marathon. The hills did not defeat
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I’m baaaack! I started training for the 2016 Boston Marathon this week. I took 5 days completely off after the California International Marathon (CIM). My rule is to take as many days off from running as I want. I like
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This should be a shorter post than the one I wrote about choosing my training plan for last fall. Back then, I was torn between the Hansons and Hudson plan and ultimately chose the former. Now, I’m going to choose
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After years of following the Pfitzinger Advanced Marathoning (Pfitz) plans, I tried a Hansons marathon training plan for the California International Marathon (CIM). I wrote about that decision in early July and about how I was adjusting to the training
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Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue I’d been chasing sub-3:20 in the marathon since training for the 2012 New York City Marathon. The race was cancelled that year, but I’ve
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The race is less than 24 hours away! My final taper week went well. As usual, I felt slow and sluggish; existing pains seemed worse and new pains came and went out of no where. I arrived in Sacramento yesterday
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I’m tapering! After completing a 20 miler on Sunday, I started decreasing mileage in the final weeks of training for the California International Marathon. But, the Hansons plan is no joke and the first week of the taper still had
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