Well, I survived the first week! To update you, I took last Friday off completely from all forms of working out which was the general plan...though I had hoped to make it to the gym to stretch and maybe do the steam room, but I had a room rep meeting (I'm Ry's room mom this year).
Saturday, I decided to do my bigger run this day versus Sunday. I did 4.43 miles total on the treadmill at the gym. I was feeling a bit tired and still sore a little, so my time was off a bit. I did 3 miles in 40 minutes (again, that includes my much slower warm-up pace). Then I did the next mile in 13.20 minutes.
On Sunday, we went to a local trail. It runs right along the coast of the bay just South of the airport. So, you are literally right on the water and have a great view of all the airplanes taking off and landing. Of course, it's a pretty busy area with lots of restaurants and hotels on the water too. The whole family went including Ginger. It was David's long run (8 miles), so that left me with the boys and Ginger to do a walk/run (at their pace) which was fine since it was suppose to be an easy day for me. The boys and I had fun (mostly) of picking our run intervals ('let's run to that next building/sign/fence'). We did a total of 2.71 miles (which is GREAT for the boys!). I added a little extra on my own w/Ginger when David came back to stretch and cool off and the boys had a snack...I logged a total of 3.21 for the day.
This week, I have a general plan. Today was suppose to be a longer run - I actually did 5.25 miles (in 71 minutes) on the treadmill this morning at the gym after carpool.
Tuesday - cross training (probably the elliptical in the evening since I have a school meeting and a dr appointment during the day and it is early release this week at 1:30pm).
Wednesday - easy run and maybe some cross train OR maybe spin?
Thursday - strength and a bigger run (at least 5 miles) OR I might switch the longer run to Wed and then do strength and an easy/shorter run on Thursday since my strength class is an hour and I'll need to run for well over an hour - makes for a long day at the gym
Friday will be an off day again.
Overall, I'm happy with my training. I am happy to be adding distance and coping with the achenes. I do know that I will have to improve my pace. I REALLY wish the race allowed longer than 3 hours to finish. I am really worried about that at this point, but I still have nearly 7 weeks left to work on it.
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