In spite of a shaky 18 miles over the weekend, I think I’m getting stronger! (Singing out of key to the tune of Rocky) Today’s interval training workouts had me going without feeling like I would die. And I really think I can actually manage the 800s the next time around! That reading is a trick 🙂 Would love that pace for 3 miles, but alas, its only my 8x3min/3min interval pace when stopping the watch for the 3min break….
After a weekend of struggling to find a balance, and then making peace with that struggle, this morning I am inspired from my struggle (Am I bi-polar or what!) I woke up to this feed in my twitter “I hated every minute of training, but I said ‘don’t quit, suffer now & live the rest of your life as a champion.’ ” – Muhammad Ali (via @RunningQuotes) I don’t hate my training, on the contrary, I’m obsessed with it. And…
I have been fretting and feeling guilty about finding a balance between normal life and marathon training. And this was in my mailbox as Runners World’s “Daily Kick in the Butt”.“I am thankful that there are different seasons in life and training. I have learned to embrace each season realizing how important it is to allow the body, mind and spirit to fully cycle through each. My current season of marathon training is my favorite. I love the simple life…
Yesterday was Krishna Janmashtami. The birthday of Lord Krishna. One of my favorite festivals with lots of childhood memories. The day before was my sweet 16 (miles). My first. The 16 miles left with me a great runners high on Saturday. But I was also in the lows Saturday night and Sunday morning. Not much energy to get anything done, but also a calendar full of birthday parties for the kids! In the midst of all this, I skimmed over…
Not really. But that is the closest to what I felt like running my first sweet 16 miles! My previous long(er) run was 15 miles 2 weeks ago, just when I was going down with sickness. Needless to say, it was a very long 15 miles. Entering this Saturday, I felt surprisingly calm with an undercurrent of excitement at pushing to a distance that can be best called borderline insane (26.2 – now THAT is insane). The run was to…
Not a pleasant thing to end up with 2 months away from one of the biggest days of my life. And school hasn’t even started yet!! I wasn’t feeling too good during the run last week (but boy am I relieved that the sucky run was mainly because I was on the verge of getting sick and not anything else!) and started a very very mild cold the next day. I say mild, because I wasn’t sneezing or anything gross….
I woke up the day of the long run with a sore throat.I struggled a bit during the run, physically and a little mentally.Sunday, full blown head cold and body ache. Had to drag myself to a birthday party and I ended up with a headache with still half the day to go. My body is creaking and protesting the upped mileage. It was ok until 12 miles. I’d done a lot of 10-12 miles before, but this time was…