Adventures of a female master runner in Metropolitan Washington, DC.
This week, my goal was increasing the spread between my easy run and workout paces by doing the former slower. I ran Sunday’s long run so hard that afterward, the Garmin Recovery Advisor suggested four easy days! But I ran a great speed workout and medium-long run two and four days later.
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After racing the 2020 DCRRC JFK 20K last week, it was back to the grind with an interval run on Tuesday before a doctor’s appointment and starting a new job! I also ran a hilly marathon-pace run on Thursday. Training
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A six hour hike in the Shenandoah Valley on Sunday wrecked my legs but I re-bounded by mid-wee. I ran two 11 milers and finished the week with a 15 miler in 80+ degree heat.
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The week started with a long run on the treadmill but I got in two quality runs on the trails during the week. After six days of running on the treadmill, I reconsidered my racing goals for the fall.
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A grueling week! I relied on the treadmill and my new Yaktrax to deal with bad weather on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. It was so miserable that I was thrilled with 32 degree temperatures and heavy rain one day! But, the
Continue readingI came off a recovery week that ended the base building phase of my training for the Boston Marathon. I embraced the adaptive training philosophy and departed from the back-of-the-book schedule in Hudson book and created my own plan for
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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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Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Training I’m in the final weeks of my Hansons marathon training plan. My goal race is the California International Marathon (CIM) on December 6th. I’ve
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Three 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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Training I did a modified Pfitzinger Advanced Marathoning, 18 week/85 miles a week plan. However, my goal race for the spring was RnR DC. After that race, I took three days off and then started training again. Unfortunately, about a
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