Training Update

Last night I worked until 5:00, finished mowing the lawn, didn't eat dinner because I was already 10 minutes late for a meeting at church. After the church meeting I had 45 minutes before the health club closed. I lifted weights (leg extensions and hamstring) and started elliptical. But by then I only had 18 minutes before it closed, so I did 10 minutes of elliptical I decided to go home and see if I felt up to running 3 miles.

When I got home I was quite hungry, overate, and then was too full to run. In addition, my left knee and right hip were in pain from the elliptical and Wednesday's run. Uh oh, I forgot...I wasn't going to make excuses (see my previous post on excuses). Anyway, I decided to call it good after the elliptical and weights and rest up for the Saturday long run.

I'm getting butterflies about the run tomorrow. The 14.5 miles totally kicked my butt last Saturday. How am I going to run farther than that tomorrow? I feel like I'm right on the line of pushing myself too far. I'm ok for now, but if I run too much more/harder I'm risking getting injured. Yet, I don't feel I've trained enough to do the long run this week. Maybe my goal is beyond my reach?

No, I'm unwilling to give up yet. I will run Saturday until I physically cannot run anymore. Then I will walk until I can't walk anymore. Then I will call for help, because I'm not into the whole crawling thing :-)

Some changes for this week's long run:

- No lifting today (Friday)
- Start the long run earlier in the morning
- hydrate with Gatorade instead of water
- hydrate more frequently

On that last note, I think I'm going to get a couple small clip-on water bottles. I've been leaving water on the side of the road, but that means no fluids for 6-8 miles.

Hopefully my next update will be more up-beat than my last post-long-run update.