I hit the proverbial training wall this past week. I had never thought about it happening; not that I thought I was invincible, but I just never entertained the notion because I never, well, thought about it. It happened after three consecutive weeks of impressing myself, logging more than 120 miles. Two weeks ago I felt that I was slow to recover from a 15-miler. After my first ever 18-miler last Sunday, I guess it was bound to happen. Here's the breakdown...yeesh.
Monday: Rest
Tuesday: 7.45 miles @ 8:45
Wednesday: Rest
Thursday: "Rest"
Friday: 6.78 @ 8:14
Saturday: 6.01 @ 8:41
Sunday: 13.48 @ 8:44
Total: 33.72
Kinda a buzzkill after I thought I was becoming a badass. Three days of rest? What a weeny-squeezer. Thursday's rest is in quotes because I hardly rested that day. We had conferences after school until 7:30PM and I'm pretty sure I saw a record number of parents. Plus, I decided the 12+ hour day at work was the right one on which to wear 3.5" pumps. At least I got to sit on my ass for most of conferences. Side note: Before running, I had no problem rocking 3.5" pumps to school on a daily basis. I don't know if it's the swelling or the toe abuse, but I feel I've lost my skill.
Anywho, Friday and Saturday were bust runs for me. On Friday my goal was 7 miles before leaving for school. When I left the house, I wasn't feeling 7 miles, so I thought I'd try just 3 for speed. I conked out after just under a mile at 6:45 pace, scaled it back to 8:20ish, and switched my goal back to 7. I ran short on time, though, and finished up just under 7.
We went to a wine tasting at the Glass Pavilion on Friday night, which we hadn't done for for a long, long time. It was a lot of fun and now Joe wants to grow a mustache. Afterwards we went to Jed's where I watched the end of the Ohio win over Beefalo and enjoyed a short Amber Bock. Didn't expect the hangover I felt Saturday morning when I got up around 5:45, so I postponed the run and went back to bed and napped until about 11. Is that really napping or just more sleeping? I ran with Joe and Alex around 2:00PM instead and felt like doo-doo. Legs were heavy, wind was blowing at our faces somehow from all but one direction, and I was totally down on myself for only having run 13 miles this week at that point. I whined and moaned my way through 6 miles. Bless the hearts of Joe and Alex for putting up with me.
Even after that crappy, crappy Saturday afternoon run, I felt AWESOME this morning. The long run plan for this week was 13 miles, but around mile 11 I thought about going for 15 instead. Then some crazy lady on almost hit me and I just wanted to get home. Apparently, she didn't like it that I stuck out my arm, motioning for her to move over with no other cars coming from the opposite direction. After passing me, she laid on her horn. Still running, I turned around and threw up both of my arms to suggest, "What's up your hole?!" to see that she had stopped her car in the road. I continued on my way, then heard her door slam shut and her shrieking, "ARE YOU SERIOUS?! YOU GET BACK HERE! NAG NAG NAG!" I have to pat myself on the back--I didn't turn back again to entertain her. I figured had I stopped and a confrontation ensued, I would have ended up pepper spraying her. I didn't want to do that, and this woman was clearly nuts, so I took the higher road. Tammy and Susan have told me a story of a crazy lady in her car at the train tracks nearby who went batshit on them once (for a different reason). I wonder if this was the same nut.
Mar 11, 2012
Mar 4, 2012
Closer to 26.2
I hit a milestone today, running my longest distance ever: EIGHTEEN MILES! And as I type, Joe is out doing 8 miles, which is going to get him to a milestone as well--his first 30+ mile week! Pretty awesome for someone who works easily 50-60 hours per week, has MBA classes until 9:00PM on Mondays and Wednesdays, AND wakes up at 5:00AM every day to get in an intense 1-hour P90X workout. The half marathon is going to be a piece of cake for him.
Here's the week in training:
Monday: Rest
Tuesday: 7.54 miles @ 8:42 minutes/mile
Wednesday: 2.89 @ 7:26
Thursday: 5.13* @ 7:58
Friday: 4.83 @ 8:50
Saturday: 7.95 @ 8:59
Sunday: 18.07 @ 9:03
Total: 46.41 miles
It was a wild weather week. Wednesday was almost 60 degrees and sunny. I had planned on doing 5-6 miles after school, but changed my mind to run a 2.9-mile, 6:29PM Leap Day race at Levis. There was a good turnout, I bet largely due to the weather. I wore shorts and a t-shirt. I REALLY LIKE winter, but it was pretty sweet for it to feel like a late April day on the last day of February. Results still aren't online (BOO, TOLEDO ROADRUNNERS! BOO!), but my Garmin said I finished in 21:30. Not my fastest three miler, but I was happy with it.
Thursday's run at Levis was actually 5.5, according to Rob, but I didn't get outside and give my Garmin enough time to find satellites, so for nearly a half-mile of running I was waiting on that. Pace wasn't too bad, but I regret not sticking it out for 6 miles.
And today? Today I ran 18 miles. I know, I know, it's not a huge deal...to you. But I feel AWESOME about it. This is huge for me. Last week, I was supposed to do 17 miles and only did 15.22 due to poor (no) route planning. Yesterday I mapped out an 18+ mile run, but changed up things this morning and still managed to do just over 18. I think it's because I didn't do it last week, part of me thought, "Krista, you're going to come short of 18." But that didn't happen. I did run 18 miles this morning. I definitely didn't kill it on pace, but my splits were all pretty close to even.
I need to think more about fueling. I only bought one gel to try, totally not thinking about the fact that I'd need to fuel more than once during such a long run. I had a chocolate chip cookie and a small glass of water just before heading out the door. I got to Tammy's at about 2.5 miles and had another small glass of water. At about 6.5 miles, I had a Power Bar Kona Punch gel and some water. At 11.5, I had another small glass of water and then nothing more until the end of the run. For my next long run, my plan is a Power Bar gel every five miles. I'm going to stick with Power Bar because it's really thin, unlike Gu. Any flavor suggestions or warnings? How often do you fuel on a long run?
Here's the week in training:
Monday: Rest
Tuesday: 7.54 miles @ 8:42 minutes/mile
Wednesday: 2.89 @ 7:26
Thursday: 5.13* @ 7:58
Friday: 4.83 @ 8:50
Saturday: 7.95 @ 8:59
Sunday: 18.07 @ 9:03
Total: 46.41 miles
It was a wild weather week. Wednesday was almost 60 degrees and sunny. I had planned on doing 5-6 miles after school, but changed my mind to run a 2.9-mile, 6:29PM Leap Day race at Levis. There was a good turnout, I bet largely due to the weather. I wore shorts and a t-shirt. I REALLY LIKE winter, but it was pretty sweet for it to feel like a late April day on the last day of February. Results still aren't online (BOO, TOLEDO ROADRUNNERS! BOO!), but my Garmin said I finished in 21:30. Not my fastest three miler, but I was happy with it.
Thursday's run at Levis was actually 5.5, according to Rob, but I didn't get outside and give my Garmin enough time to find satellites, so for nearly a half-mile of running I was waiting on that. Pace wasn't too bad, but I regret not sticking it out for 6 miles.
And today? Today I ran 18 miles. I know, I know, it's not a huge deal...to you. But I feel AWESOME about it. This is huge for me. Last week, I was supposed to do 17 miles and only did 15.22 due to poor (no) route planning. Yesterday I mapped out an 18+ mile run, but changed up things this morning and still managed to do just over 18. I think it's because I didn't do it last week, part of me thought, "Krista, you're going to come short of 18." But that didn't happen. I did run 18 miles this morning. I definitely didn't kill it on pace, but my splits were all pretty close to even.
I need to think more about fueling. I only bought one gel to try, totally not thinking about the fact that I'd need to fuel more than once during such a long run. I had a chocolate chip cookie and a small glass of water just before heading out the door. I got to Tammy's at about 2.5 miles and had another small glass of water. At about 6.5 miles, I had a Power Bar Kona Punch gel and some water. At 11.5, I had another small glass of water and then nothing more until the end of the run. For my next long run, my plan is a Power Bar gel every five miles. I'm going to stick with Power Bar because it's really thin, unlike Gu. Any flavor suggestions or warnings? How often do you fuel on a long run?
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