Adventures of a female master runner in Metropolitan Washington, DC.
I think I have enough gear to keep me running through November. I also stocked up on electrolytes and gels for the hot summer months ahead. For motivation, Spotify finally delivered some new tunes I liked. And, the Olympic
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This wasn’t one of my strongest training weeks. It started out alright with a 5K where the weather was cool and I ran better than expected. But, it ended with a missed morning workout which led to an evening tempo
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Clothing & Gear As I start getting ready to train for the New York City Marathon, I’m looking at my clothing and gear carefully. For some reason, I don’t have as many items for summer running as I do for
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Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue I was planning to run the San Diego Half Marathon a few weeks ago, but a friend’s wedding led me to change plans and
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Running is a simple sport, right? All you really need is a pair of shoes (or not) and a stretch of sidewalk, road, track, or trail. Last week, I decided to strip out the stuff that makes running fussy (for
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I started the week with an absolutely brutal long run through a lot of snow packed rail-trails and ended the week with a hill repeat workout on dead legs. Yay! During both, I reminded myself I’m a Boston Marathoner and
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The mid-Atlantic was hit by a snow storm last Friday through Sunday. The roads and trails were snow and ice covered for days after. For this training week, I took Sunday and Monday off. By Tuesday, I drove to my
Continue readingI wasn’t going to write a race report for Ragnar Cape Cod since I considered it more of a social event than a competitive one. I didn’t do any specific training for it. But, since I ran my legs hard
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