Adventures of a female master runner in Metropolitan Washington, DC.
Sunday’s long run was the fastest long run of this training cycle! I followed it up with a solid 1000m repeat workout on Tuesday and 13-miler on Thursday. On Saturday, I ran the Roosevelt Island DC Parkrun instead of an easy run and enjoyed racing again!
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The weather was cooler than usual for my 18-miler on Sunday. On Tuesday, the temperature rose to the mid-70s for my 600m repeats workout. Due to near 80-degree heat, 7 miles @ goal marathon pace became marathon effort. After a check-up on Wednesday, I felt confident that whatever was negatively impacting my training in the fall of 2019 resolved itself but I have a long road back to my former fitness level.
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It’s officially summer! The temperature reached 85 degrees by the end of my 19-miler on Sunday but a cool front moved through mid-week making the other workouts much more pleasant. In fact, the paces for my interval workout on Tuesday and my marathon-pace run on Thursday were both faster than they should have been.
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It was a relatively cool weather week and it led to some great workouts. On Sunday, I completed the “Arlington Loop” for my long run and felt like I could have gone further. On Tuesday, I ran 1000m repeats on the trail as fast as I’d done shorter intervals. And on Thursday, I cruised through a marathon-pace run.
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This week, I started setting pace expectations for my runs. Sunday’s long run was only 16 miles so I wanted to run it faster than usual but the weather didn’t allow it. The heat also made my “speed” workout fairly slow. But I completed the runs and by the end of the week, had confidence about completing my workouts in the heat.
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Despite being over-dressed, I finished my first 20 miler of this training cycle on Sunday! The run ended with me shuffling so two days later, I ran short intervals to get my legs turning over again. Closed the weekly workouts out with a good threshold run on Thursday.
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There was another snow warning to start the week and then on Wednesday and Friday, too. I had a disappointing marathon-pace workout on Sunday but a great interval session on Wednesday. But, the week ended in disaster after I tripped during an easy run, breaking two fingers and skinning my knee!
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The week started with snow – about two inches and then we got two more on Tuesday. I ran loops on the salted roads in my neighborhood to avoid slick pavement but my mid-week was back on the trails. It wasn’t a bad week – I got my runs in despite the bad weather, but I missed the mileage goal by quite a bit.
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On Sunday, I belted out a 21-miler – my longest run by far since last April. I skipped Wednesday’s medium run, though. Now that COVID-19 cases in the county have dropped, I felt more comfortable returning to my gym. Next week might be interesting as the forecast calls for snow on Sunday…
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It was a busy week getting ready for my move to a new house! I completed a marathon-pace run on Sunday and stayed on schedule until Wednesday when I moved the training calendar forward a day in anticipation that I wouldn’t run long on moving day next Sunday. On Thursday evening, I stayed late at the new house but still ran the next day.
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