Adventures of a female master runner in Metropolitan Washington, DC.
Just as I was feeling like my fitness was improving, my body showed signs of over-training: fatigue during my speed workouts and the return of piriformis syndrome. The weather also played a part as a storm on Thursday morning forced me to run my threshold run in the afternoon.
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It turned into a bit of an easy week because the speed and threshold workouts weren’t particularly difficult. I also felt a great sense of relief when the London Marathon announced the 2021 race would be canceled. Back in April, I was in no shape to run in a “championship”. Instead of dragging my broken body across a finish line, I’ll have the chance to compete next year.
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With the virtual Boston Marathon only 8 weeks away, I increased my mileage a little but kept my focus on getting faster. As July came to a close, I hadn’t really noticed how hot it was but the region broke its record for the most days over 90 degrees.
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I started the next phase of the Daniels’ Running Formula’s half marathon training plan just as my training paces were feeling more comfortable. In the meanwhile, my plantar fasciitis finally felt better! Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, I left for a summer vacation in upstate New York on Saturday.
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Running was much more enjoyable this week as I paced my workouts at my current fitness rather than my past. It was the last week of Phase II of the Daniels’ Running Formula’s half marathon plan and I decided to continue working on speed rather than graduating to marathon training.
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The week started with a slow, hilly long run at the Wintergreen Resort in Virginia. For my other workouts, I settled on paces based on the VDOT tables in Daniels’ Running Formula. Meanwhile, my mind wandered to whether I should bother training for a fall marathon or not.
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My foot felt better and I did a long run on Sunday. I biked to the track to take some of the pressure off my feet. I started to feel a little more hopeful. On Saturday, my boyfriend and I headed to central Virginia for a change of scenery.
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Northern Virginia entered Phase 2 of COVID-19 re-opening on Friday, which sparked hope about life becoming closer to normal. But after my tempo run on Thursday, I couldn’t put weigh on my right foot and worried that this training cycle was over before it really began.
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It was the first week of my new training cycle! Even though there isn’t a goal race on my calendar, the prospect of getting faster is providing motivation. On Saturday, I even scoped out my neighborhood track for next week’s interval workout.
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So much has changed in the world in the eleven weeks since my Boston Marathon training cycle came to a grinding halt when that race and the London Marathon were both postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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