Adventures of a female master runner in Metropolitan Washington, DC.
I was pretty exhausted after the New York City Marathon on November 6th and took the next 6 days off from running. I eased back into it this week but only ran 3 days. I started chiropractic treatments to treat
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After a rest day on Sunday, I felt ready for a final push – two more hard weeks until my taper! Confident in my endurance, I wanted to run harder this week. I ran a tough interval workout on Tuesday,
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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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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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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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Prologue (If you’re not familiar with Ragnar, my race report from last year has a brief description of how it works.) Ragnar Cape Cod is a relay race from Hull, MA to Provincetown (aka “P-Town”). It’s a little under 200
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Well, hello there! It’s been almost 3 weeks since I ran the Boston Marathon. I’ve been a bit surprised by my recovery from the race. Normally, I allow myself to take as many days off from running as I want
Continue readingI spent most of the week in a Nyquil-induced stupor. I had a slight fever and cough on Monday. The cough lingered all week but I still got most of my mileage in. By Thursday, I felt much better after
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It feels great to be tapering! I ran well at the Cherry Blossom 10 Miler on Sunday and then started my taper after Monday’s long run. Or, did I? My training load was still pretty high. At the end of
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Scroll all the way down to the end of the post for the tl;dr version. Prologue Going into the race, I was in the final weeks of training for the 2016 Boston Marathon. I ran the 2016 Rock ‘n’ Roll
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