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Final Week of Maintenance – Training Recap

May 21, 2017 By: Courtney @ Eat Pray Run DC18 Comments

Eek – marathon training starts tomorrow, y’all! The great thing is that I have a build up period – which will be helpful as I acclimate to the DC humidity. Woof. As you may remember, I will still be running (and even doing a couple of races) in between now and when I start training for the Berlin Marathon. But I’ll primarily be focused on cross training and keeping my base level of running up. I’m running a few days a week before training gets going in a couple of weeks. In that spirit, I will continue to enjoy all of your training recaps, so please do keep linking up! This is a low-key link up, but if you participate regularly, link back to this blog. Now on to the maintenance training recap!

Spring Training Recap

Monday: 2.6 mile run commute home. Easy and relaxing at the end of a long work day. 

Tuesday: 3.5 easy miles in the morning before work. I realized that marathon training actually starts a week sooner than I thought. Oops! 

Wednesday: 6am Pure Barre to celebrate my buddy Jen’s birthday! 

Thursday: rest

Friday: rest  

Saturday: 7 miles with my Saturday training group. And then, a fitness crawl. 3 studios – barre, pilates and then bootcamp. 30 minutes each. Super fun but pretty exhausting! A great day!

Sunday: Capitol Hill Classic 10k! This is my local 10k – it starts about 6 blocks from my home and we had a number of Oiselle gals running. I paced my friend Jen to a big PR and had a blast!! 

 

Such a great morning at the #caphillclassic10k – always a fun time with this crew! Special shout out to @bubblyrunner who ran a huge PR! Woot woot!!

A post shared by Courtney (@eatprayrundc) on May 21, 2017 at 8:08am PDT

Total mileage for the week: 19.71 miles

Total mileage for the year: 490.78 miles

Marathon training is starting y’all! And no…I know that I still need to share what my plans are for this cycle. It’s coming! 

Next week the training recap will officially be a Berlin training recap – open to all training for any race, of course. Anyone else starting their marathon training??

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  1. Heather says

    May 21, 2017 at 4:03 pm

    so exciting! I am just heading into maintenance before marathon training, and I couldnt be happier. Glad that you were able to take this time to prepare yourself for marathon training. All the best as you start your next training cycle.

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    • Courtney @ Eat Pray Run DC says

      May 21, 2017 at 4:05 pm

      thanks – I REALLY enjoyed my time not training. It helped me to reset mentally and now I’m ready for tough training. I think 🙂

      Reply
  2. Kimberly g says

    May 21, 2017 at 5:07 pm

    Sounds like another great week of workouts! You has a hella busy day on Saturday, but that fitness crawl sounds like so much fun! I would love to do something like that in my city. That’s so awesome that you were able to pace a friend to a PR today!

    I also start marathon training tomorrow – yikes!

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    • Courtney @ Eat Pray Run DC says

      May 21, 2017 at 7:04 pm

      Woohoo!! Here we go 🙂 congrats on your race!

      Reply
  3. Zenaida says

    May 21, 2017 at 6:22 pm

    Excited to read your post about your plans for Berlin. And I am also excited to read about your training.

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    • Courtney @ Eat Pray Run DC says

      May 21, 2017 at 7:04 pm

      Excited to get going!

      Reply
  4. Wendy@Taking the Long Way Home says

    May 21, 2017 at 6:45 pm

    I”m excited to follow you and Marcia as you guys prepare for Berlin! So exciting!

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    • Courtney @ Eat Pray Run DC says

      May 21, 2017 at 7:05 pm

      I’m so excited. Race day is in 18 weeks!!!

      Reply
  5. Jennifer @ Dashing in Style says

    May 21, 2017 at 7:44 pm

    Exciting!!! Yes, I love how Hansons eases you into training, so you have plenty of time to acclimate to the unique joys of summer training. I love the idea of a fitness crawl. Did you do it on your own or was it something the studios put together?

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    • Courtney @ Eat Pray Run DC says

      May 21, 2017 at 7:56 pm

      No it was organized by volunteers from Girls on the Run. So great!!

      Reply
  6. Coco says

    May 22, 2017 at 7:00 am

    Last week’s heat wave was an unwelcome surprise! Love the Oiselle team pic! Sounds like it was a fun race.

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    • Courtney @ Eat Pray Run DC says

      May 22, 2017 at 7:32 am

      It was. I always love it because it’s my neighborhood race!

      Reply
  7. Janelle @ Run With No Regrets says

    May 22, 2017 at 8:17 am

    Wow, I can’t believe it’s already marathon training time! Looking forward to following! Oh and your fitness crawl looked so fun, I wish we had events like that in Philly!
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    • Courtney @ Eat Pray Run DC says

      May 22, 2017 at 8:23 am

      The fitness crawl was a fundraiser organized by Girls on the Run volunteers – you could totally do one in Philly!

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  8. Amy Lauren says

    May 22, 2017 at 8:39 am

    Congrats to your friend on her 10K PR! I’m glad you had a great week and it’s really fun that you can run commute. 2.6 miles seems like a great distance for that too- with morning/afternoon you end up getting in just over 5 miles but neither would be a really taxing run. Nothing like realizing your training starts earlier than you thought, but I think you will do amazing :).

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    • Courtney @ Eat Pray Run DC says

      May 22, 2017 at 8:51 am

      Hahaha, yeah I’m just glad I realized that so I didn’t miss anything, ha!

      Reply
  9. Christine @ Into the glimmer says

    May 22, 2017 at 11:26 am

    Good luck as your marathon training starts and congrats on pacing your friend to a PR! Ugh, the humidity! It is vicious already. I’m in the south by the coast and it. is. miserable.

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  10. Wendy says

    May 22, 2017 at 1:56 pm

    Yay! Training starts. I love training for marathons (now about actually running a marathon…LOL). I’m looking forward to your training. I’m very interested in Hanson’s. I’m considering using it for Boston. The Fitness Crawl sounds fun!

    Reply

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