Adventures of a female master runner in Metropolitan Washington, DC.
Training Schedule July 23rd – July 29th Sunday: Long Run. 10 miles Monday: Off Tuesday: Speed Run. 6 x 800m w/400m recoveries Wednesday: Easy Run. 6 miles Thursday: Threshold Run. 6 miles @ marathon pace Friday: Easy Run. 6 miles Saturday: Easy Run. 8 miles
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This was my first full week of training since deciding not to run the London Marathon and focusing on the Boston Marathon instead. I was fairly aggressive and ran a 16 mile long run on Sunday, 1000m repeats on Tuesday, concluding with a 14-mile medium run on Thursday.
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Sunday’s long run left me feeling so cocky that I spun my handheld like a pistol at the end. Then, I got some bad news at work on Monday that left me in a sullen mood – even during my workouts. But I achieved my mileage goal and ran 60 miles this week!
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Now that the Christmas and New Year’s Day holidays were over, I could focus on marathon training! This week was the last relatively easy one of the training cycle. Going forward, the schedule will have three legitimate workouts a week.
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I missed the second “supplement” for August, so this post is longer than usual. I bought the Garmin 645! My replacement Jaybird X3 Wireless Headphones died, so my pursuit for a good pair of wireless headphones continues. Pace the Nation,
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Like most runners in the area, I’m done with summer. To get me through this week, I relied on fun music to lift my mood and new gear. On my runs this week, there were safety concerns, hazards, and interesting animal sightings on the rail trails.
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After weeks of cloudy skies, the sun finally appeared on Tuesday. I ran well until Saturday when summer arrived with a vengeance and I wilted in the heat. But the big news of the week was that I’ll be working
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Confident in my endurance when Sunday’s long run wasn’t completely miserable, I started layering faster miles into my workouts this week. I’ve been trying to go to bed earlier to get more sleep and that seemed to help my training.
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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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A recovery week! It was fantastic having a week of relative low mileage. I actually took today off. I didn’t sleep well a few nights, though, so it wasn’t as restful as it could have been. Still, by mid-week, I
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