March 3rd: After a success end of the weekend running with my leg still tight but not worse!, I turned my attention to the totality of my training plan. I try my hardest to follow my plan, and I love to follow someone’s plans for me, but I’m struggling some with the work/life/run balance. But that’s why I pay a coach so we’re going to make some shifts to remove a long workout on Fridays and perhaps skip four days in a row and do it two days, rest, three. I hope this will bring more balance to everything.
March 4th: This was 6x1 mile alternating +10 / -10 seconds from marathon pace. It actually went fine, if not a big of a drag. I called it at 5 due to leg iffyness and time. With a treadmill the plus/minus is actually pretty easy although mine were 7 seconds because of how my tread works. The leg was still tight but I think we’re getting close to better.
March 5th: I decided, once again, to try and be a morning runner. This time I managed to get up before 4:45 and got in 6 miles. It went well too! Go figure. For me if I hit my REM cycle just righy, the early mornings aren’t that bad. It’s when something throws that off be it the the pup, food or if I have a drink or two, and then the struggle is Real, and I usually talk myself out of it (which then is funny because usually I’m not going back to sleep). This run felt really good and it didn’t wear me down for the rest of the day. So once more, I’m going to put these early mornings back on my radar.
March 7th: And just as quickly as I make myself a promise to try and get up in the morning workout m, I don’t do it. We did go out to eat last night, and I did have a drink so to be fair I was pretty sure that was going to be the case. Therefore, the work out was at the end of the day. This was 3 x 800, 400, 400. It went okay. I think I was fairly under a fueled today and on the treadmill, it was just one of those workouts where the speed wasn’t there and I couldn’t get my body to relax and turn over faster. So the reps were all at 7:19 which is entirely fine and pretty close to one of the acceptable paces sit by the coach, so I’m not too disappointed but a little bit.
I will say that I had a pretty rough day earlier this week at the office and it was one of those days where you just felt knocked down. That was another reason why I have tried to focus on regrouping a bit with a training plan because I never want training, and certainly not running, to feel like it is a chore or that it takes something away or out of me. The entire point of this is to add something into who I am.
March 8th: This was an easy 5 miles which I got myself outside for. It was a tad breezy, but overall not a bad gig and happy to be outside. I definitely listed to Forever by Mumford and Sons too much but man does that one hit right now.
March 9th: Long run day with 14 on deck. This one went so-so. The legs felt good and actually the hamstring seems to be over its little issue (knock on wood). It was mostly energy and tummy meh. I think I need to combo UCAN and Maureen but skip caffeinated gels as the UCAN alone seems to not quite have enough or perhaps, with the package, I don't get enough. For Eastern States, I'll bring enough so that I can alternate along with salt chews as back up for sodium. We shall see how that goes. But, overall, glad I got this one done and in the books.
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