2020 Year End Review
2020 started optimistically! In December, I joined an online group to train for the 2020 Boston Marathon and was starting to feel better after a disappointing 2019 New York City Marathon.
Continue readingAdventures of a female master runner in Metropolitan Washington, DC.
2020 started optimistically! In December, I joined an online group to train for the 2020 Boston Marathon and was starting to feel better after a disappointing 2019 New York City Marathon.
Continue readingOn Tuesday, I ran a Yasso 800 workout to get a sense for what marathon pace might be. I had a great medium run on Thursday – the 4th fastest of the year thanks to… Oasis? And despite COVID-19 concerns, I returned to my big, national-chain gym for weight training workouts.
Continue readingScroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue Inspired by the Barkley Marathons documentary and a Marathon Talk episode with Elisabet Barnes describing the Marathon de Sables, I thought I might try
Continue readingI’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
Continue readingThree weeks to go! It feels great to be on the last page of my training plan. The biggest development this week is that I decided to stop beating myself up during my training runs and tried to get a
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