Adventures of a female master runner in Metropolitan Washington, DC.
My shoes smelled moldy after the 2017 Bourbon Chase, so I bought the new Mizuno Wave Rider 21s. I sweated a lot during this sultry summer, but I didn’t drown. During the race, I discovered a new caffeine product. The
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Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue (If you’re not familiar with relays, my race report from 2015 Ragnar Cape Cod has a brief description of how they work.) This would
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It was a hot week. But, Kelly Clarkson promised that what doesn’t kill me will makes me stronger and a podcast reminded me that bad days are “the cost of doing business” if I want to get better. My new
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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
Continue readingScroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue My first New York City Marathon (NYCM) was supposed to be the 2012 race. It was cancelled due to Hurricane Sandy. I had trained
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The Hanson people are trying to kill me. I ran 80 miles this week, which is a pretty heavy load already. On Wednesday, I realized I had ran 20 miles at goal marathon pace in the past 5 days! And,
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This week, I reached that point in marathon training where I feel like I’m on auto-pilot. I woke up at 5:30am (or earlier) every day and got out of bed without too much resistance. I completed all my scheduled workouts
Continue readingThe week started rough. I couldn’t remember the last time I felt this tired during marathon training. I managed to hit goal marathon pace (7:38 for a 3:20 marathon) on Wednesday despite serious doubts before the workout. That was followed
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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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