Adventures of a female master runner in Metropolitan Washington, DC.
Feeling more confident about my training paces, I left my heart rate monitor at home for most of my workouts. A difficult career decision impacted my runs, sleep, and eating habits. Training Schedule July 22nd – July 28th Sunday: Recovery
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I attended a work conference in Baltimore to start what was a hectic work week. I struggled to find running routes and my workouts weren’t as prepared as I wanted. By Wednesday, I started to see my running paces drop
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Fully recovered from jet-lag and a cold, this felt like the first week of marathon training. Like a good runner, I pushed myself during workouts but eased off on recovery days. On Saturday, I completed my first marathon-pace workout of
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It was the last week of my taper before the 2018 Boston Marathon! I thought my mileage was a little high so I cut some miles off my recovery runs at the end of the week. The race is tomorrow
Continue readingMy last high mileage week before tapering! I had some pain in my left knee early in the week but it went away by Tuesday. Winter finally gave up its frigid, windy grip on Thursday and spring arrived! After the
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It was a tough week! My schedule didn’t have any easy days but I created one by taking Thursday off. My time from the Shamrock Half Marathon on Sunday and interval workout on Friday were both good indicators that I’m
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After powering through last week’s peak mileage week, I only ran one hard workout during this cut-back week – a general aerobic run on Thursday. Monday’s interval workout was a bust. I took Tuesday off and ran easy for the
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I ran four workouts this week and they were all packed together. I did general aerobic runs on Monday and Thursday, a medium run on Wednesday, and an interval workout on Tuesday. I took Friday and Saturday easy in preparation
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I only ran three workouts this week – an 8 mile general aerobic run on Monday, a 15 miler on Tuesday, and a 20 miler on Saturday. I missed my lactate threshold run on Thursday because I overslept. Not great
Continue readingI moved out of my hotel room and back home on Monday after completing a lactate threshold run. With the exception of the medium run I did the next day, I ran each workout a little faster than I expected.
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