Today was a weigh in day... Up I go, oops! I weighed in at 186.6 today, almost up a full pound from last week. I'm not surprised, or disappointed because I know there will be ups and downs and I know I worked my butt off this week. Unfortunately, I ate like crap. I blame football season!
I had a great hill run last Wednesday outside on the Hanover campus. It was a bit cold, but I ended up doing 2 miles of hills. The plan is to increase it by at least a half mile per week each Wednesday. Following the hill work out I go into the gym and participate in a 15 minute class. The class consists of 5 exercises and 5 sets of each. It's an intense 5 minutes, but well worth it.
Saturday was my first official heartbreak hill run of the marathon season. I ran along with Amy and her and I killed it! Katie did awesome too and came in just a few minutes behind us. It would have been an excellent workout, if I had taken the proper time to recover. Instead of taking it nice and easy for the rest of the day I ended up at the Patriots/Broncos game. I'm certainly not complaining, but being on my feet for over 12 hours was killer on my body. I took a nice slow 3 mile walk on Sunday, and then jumped back into things yesterday. My foot and left knee disagreed with the amount of time I had given myself to recover. I'm at that point in my training where the miles go up and the aches and pains start to last a little longer. I need to be smart about it this year and mentally get over the hurtle that I need to work out every day, twice a day! Despite the pains I still worked out yesterday morning, ran 3 miles last night, and then took another intense class this morning. I spent 2 hours at my desk today with an ice pack on my knee. Lesson learned! Tomorrow will be an off day at the first sign of pain!
In case I don't blog again before Saturday wish me luck on my 16 miler... my longest run since Boston 2011!
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