Wow! I know more than a month has passed since my last blog were I vowed to blog daily or at least weekly chronicling my journey to Boston qualify....that has been harder than I thought yet now I know my weakness :)
Well below is what I have been doing for the past month! Training has been sketchy and with 5 weeks to go it's looking scary. Yet I am in it to win it no matter what and it has been a great learning experience and I truly look forward to my next training event to do MUCH BETTER. Yet until then I will try to continue to strive to stay on track and put in as much mileage as possible.
So since June 16th I was suppose do a couple of long runs ranging from 11 to 18 miles. Well the longest I have done since then has been 10.5 miles which I did yesterday - on the treadmill! This being Week 26 I am still trying to get going.....ahhhhhh. Monday I did not cross train and yesterday I played "trying to catch up" with this long run on the treadmill.
It was very humid yesterday afternoon and my morning runs have still not happened as I thought it would even with my Mother taking care of Enzo and weekends still have been hard - thus the run on the treadmill!
Yet here we go as to what I have done in the past month which includes celebrating my birthday on June 23rd (exactly a month ago today ;)) turning 35! :)
We'll start with the good stuff first - I left work to spend time with family who gave me all I wanted - cake, family and a bottle of wine!
Ok now for the bad....well the not so good....my crazy training schedule:
So this week is week 26 and will start here:
Week 26, July 22 - Tuesday - I did 10.5 miles on treadmill. Schedule calls for 5 miles yet I did what I said I was not going to do and tried making up miles. Goal was to do two 6 miles repeats which I have done before on the treadmill. First 6 miles at a comfortable pace then second 6 miles progressively faster. My second 6 miles did not go as planned at I keep starting and stopping due to some technical issues with the treadmill (this treadmill has not been my friend this training season). So I ended up just doing 10.5 miles and chopped it up as getting some mileage in.
This past weekend I really wanted to go out and get in a long run yet it just has been so crazy that last Friday through Sunday I did no running - I know ....!!! I was to do my first 20 miler of the training schedule on Sunday yet will do that this Saturday in NYC in Central Park.
Family and life took over and though the goal was there to run it did not transpire and I am plagued with the thinking I will just do it tomorrow and tomorrow come and goes...and now is 5 weeks until marathon day....what happened to 5 months until marathon day!
Week 21: June 17th called for 4 miles. I was at LA Fitness doing a 3 day trial pass at the gym. At this gym they had a underwater treadmill which the trainer said was "great" and low impact on your knees. I figure I would give it a try. So I tried doing 4 miles on the underwater treadmill yet I did see any place on the treadmill that recorded your distance. It did record my time and I stayed on it for about 35 minutes. It was okay yet i will stick with my land treadmill.
June 18th called for 7 miles yet ended up doing 5 miles on the treadmill. I was really slow and sluggish this day and pulled of only 5 miles.
June 19th called for 4 miles which I did on treadmill.
So
June 20th - through June 21st I did not run. It was a long weekend which included me going to NYC to grab my Mom and I worked that weekend as well so it was just crazed.
June 23rd -my birthday - Monday I got out early that morning and attempted to go on a long run before work and cake and drinking and only pulled off doing a 1.17 miles! Like I said it was a tiring weekend and I barely made it around the block!
Week 22: This whole week was pretty much a bust unfortunately. I believe I did a couple of runs here and there.....my training I know taking a NOSE DIVE and I was working long hours.
June 27th - Friday - was a rest day yet I have rested more than trained so I did not rest that day and got out and was able to do 5 miles though. I ran in DC so a lot of stop and go and getting to know the new area where I work around.
Week 23: With 4th of July festivities my training again halted. I did do a short run on
July 1st yet nothing great.
On
July 7th I I did 4 miles outside and on
July 9th pulled of 5 miles outdoors.
I am still loving my garmin watch yet still takes forever to find my location in order to track my run via gps - just have to hit that button earlier before I am ready to run.
Week 24:
July 10th - Thursday I ended up doing 8 miles on treadmill.
July 13th - Saturday I ended doing 8.12 on treadmill.
Still missing my long run Sundays.....oh boy!!!!
Week 25: July 16th - Wednesday - I ended up doing 7.5 miles though scheduled called for 8 miles.
I did a couple of runs on treadmill this week yet did not capture. At this point very fed up at losing some much control over training schedule.
With yesterday long run on treadmill I feel good so plan on following schedule for today which is 5 miles. With the planned 20 miler on Saturday I plan on just following Week 26 schedule yet just doing 20 miles on Saturday and Sunday....well won't be doing the call for 12 miles yet will see what I can do on Sunday for relief.
In transformation and consistency!
Yvonne
