11/14 sunday – off
11/15 monday – 4.0, 36:23 (9:05)
11/16 tuesday – off
11/17 wednesday – 7.04, 64:43 (9:12)
11/18 thursday – 6.59, 60:23 (9:10) + 20:00 yoga video
11/19 friday – 3.1, 28:04 (9:03)
11/20 saturday – 9.32, 1:32:06 plus .37 to get there (9:53)
total miles run: 30.42
total time: 4:45:03 (avg 9:22)
total exercise time: 5:05:03
Things were kind of falling back into place this week. Running felt good, started pulling runs back to around an hour or so the last two weeks after clinging a bit to the three or four mile runs for the past few weeks. I ran a 15k in my town on Saturday. Nothing happens here, so it was pretty sweet to be able to run down the road and start, except I felt like total crap the entire time! I had done seven miles earlier this week around 9:12/mile pretty comfortably so I thought I would do about the same for nine miles, but nope! Even slower than my marathon pace. My stomach was sloshy and gurgling after two miles and my legs just didn’t feel that interested in moving. I thought about heading for home at about six miles, but I realized that home was pretty much the same distance as the finish line anyway. Lots of walking was involved. Not sure what else to say about that other than sometimes you have a bad day and there’s a big ol’ clock at the end to tell you about it. Luckily, Brian was sweet and met me at the fairly deserted finish line to walk me home. I hope to avenge this bad run in the near future.
Last week I was reminded that I’m not great at getting things done without a schedule and a plan. I still don’t have much of a plan for this week except battling the rain and running a 15k Saturday morning.
11/7 sunday – off
11/8 monday – PM 4.54 miles, 41:42 + 1.5 miles with spikey afterward, 14:25
11/9 tuesday – 4.00, 37:43
11/10 wednesday – tired, lazy, OFF
11/11 thursday – 3.25 miles w/ lisa, 36:19 + 2.07 afterwards
11/12 friday – 3.10, 28:56
11/13 saturday – PM 8.01 miles, 76:30 + skated 8.17 in 56:08 w/ lisa and carrie
total miles run: 26.47
total time run: 4:16:09
total cardio: 5:12:17
My skating buddy Lisa met me on Thursday to run after work. She talked a big game about how bad it was going to be, then proceeded to bust out a solid three mile run. Sweet.
Last night I found out that I was matched to my first choice dietetic internship. Heck yeah. Not to brag or maybe to brag a little, but the match rate for the spring is less than 50% and the fall is about 33% (meaning 2/3 people who apply don’t get one), so I am super stoked to have gotten one at all, let alone my top choice. The other three I applied to were pretty random locations. Crisis move to the Midwest narrowly averted. Now I can stop walking around feeling like I’m going to have a heart attack at any minute, though I still won’t find out what city my DI is in for another week or two – at least I’ve narrowed it to a potential two out of 50 states. Crossing my fingers that it’s somewhere close enough to come home on the weekend.
Last week was basically a wash as far as running went. I was feeling pretty drained in the latter half of the week and felt like I might never get motivated to exercise again. Yesterday I realized how awful I felt after a week of staring at the computer and sitting on the couch and got back in action with six miles today (4.5 alone, 1.5 with dog). On my solo jaunt, I managed to reconcile with the big, bad black dog of a few weeks ago (and his mini-dob sidekick). His dentally challenged owner called him out from under the trailer (not exaggerating, the guy was nice but he had every other tooth and the ones present were greenish), I waved a couple of Milk Bones the dog’s way, and he was nuzzling me and rolling over so I could rub his belly. I only touched it with my foot. Mama didn’t raise no fool, who knows what could be in that fur. Maybe now I can have my 4+ mile country runs back.
My calves are still getting kind of sore after running, but this weather is the bomb. I have not thought too much about what my plans are for running between now and Thunder Road Marathon on December 11th, but I think I am going to try to drop down to about 30 miles per week and let my legs rest up some.
Last week’s sad stats:
Friday 11/5 – AM 3.11 miles, 28:10
Saturday 11/6 – AM skated about an hour/8 miles with Lisa and Carrie, PM ran 3.1, 27:06
total miles run: 6.21
total run time: 55:16 (…)
total cardio time: 1:55:16
Well, I guess I return victorious; had my thesis defense on Wednesday. It went mostly without issue and I emerged with three signatures on my Thesis Defense and Final Examination Approval form. That was anticlimactic, especially because people keep saying, ARE YOU SO EXCITED? YOU ARE DONE! And I am like, YEAH, I AM REALLY EXCITED TO BE DONE OTHER THAN THE 20 EDITS I HAVE TO MAKE BEFORE SUBMITTING MY THESIS. SO, NOT REALLY EXCITED AT ALL. I went home and went to sleep and continued sleeping into Thursday. Brian has a cold so I went along with it figuring maybe I’d avoid getting one by pretending I already had one. I now have 11/20 edits done, then will probably have to do some more formatting before submitting it.
This morning was my first run since Ridge to Bridge last Saturday. Usually I would run two days after a marathon or maybe three, but I was pretty sore through Tuesday (calves and quads) and then had the defense/mental recovery period after that. Ho-ly crap, I ran three miles this morning and my calves are sore again. Need to work this out. I also need to take Spikey out because both of us are getting more rotund by the day. Stomachs are not looking good here.
It’s gotten really chilly here in the past few days. Our old house is drafty and I’m supplementing the heater with this super awesome pullover that I got from Moving Comfort and a vest on top…this is the most comfortable fleece ever, but the price is on the higher side. I got it through Brooks ID, otherwise could not gamble that much on a sweater/hoodie/fleece, but if the price doesn’t deter you, I would recommend purchasing it for sure. I don’t think I have worn fleece for several years and it is like being in my PJs. I have a veggie pot pie in the oven and some bean & kale soup on the stove for tomorrow…ready for some more sleep time. This is the end of my random post.
I think someone took a cheese grater to my leg muscles this weekend…I’m not sure, though. This might be the first time the aftermath of a marathon hurt worse than the actual run.
10/24 sunday – Athens Half Marathon – 13.11, 2:02:50
10/25 monday – off
10/26 tuesday – off
10/27 wednesday – 3.62, 33:53 (9:22 avg)
10/28 thursday – 3.0, 27:14 (9:04 avg) + skated 5 miles w/ lisa, 34:20
10/29 friday – off
10/30 saturday – Ridge to Bridge Marathon – 26.22, 4:12:45
total miles run: 45.95
total run time: 7:16:42 (avg pace 9:30)
total cardio: 7:51:02
October miles: 169.94
October time run: 27:15:28 (avg pace: 9:37 – didn’t really pick it back up like I “planned”)
YTD miles: 1646.87 (surpassed last year’s miles with two months to go…woop woop)
