I’d forgotten how much time and mental energy is involved with training for something! My weekends feel so much shorter now that I’m putting in a medium long run in on Friday night (13 or so) and a long run (19-20) on Sunday. That eats up so much time! It’s also really time consuming to…
Today’s workout: the track. Ug. Of all the workouts I do, I dread these workouts the most. Good thing it was gorgeous out & my husband & dog were set to join me — gives me no excuse to back out. Off we go to the track. 5 mile WU (trying to hit 11 on…
After Sunday’s long/hard marathon pace run, my quads were pretty beat up. I had run for 10 days in a row & my legs were telling me that. Haven’t been that sore in a while! Usually when I’m beat up like that, I recover pretty quickly — usually just a day or so of rest…
Capped off a good week today. 73 miles total. Today’s workout was an 18 miler, with the last 8 miles at marathon pace. Uff, these are always the TOUGHEST workouts (physically and mentally) to do. Especially doing them alone, so I whined a little bit (too outwardly) as I was going out the door, and…
This is sad. I’ve done 40 miles in the last 4 days, and my body is pretty achy! My quads are tight, i’m feeling a little twinge in my back, and the ball of my foot hurts a little. The sad part is that I feel like that after averaging just 10 miles a day….
Motivating yourself to start a workout, especially a hard one, when it’s chilly and rainy is really, really tough. Especially when you’re tired, and napping sounds like SO much more fun. But, I got out there. In part, because of the Jen Houck article I posted yesterday :). I know she’s out there hitting the…