Short and to the point, let's get on with my exercise for the week...
• Saturday: last run with my friend Stacey for a few
weeks. She has a trail race one week
that she’s running, then she’s doing some mission work for her school for a
couple weeks, then maybe we can start running together again. I didn’t run anything above what she had
scheduled for this run as I was running the Rogue Distance Challenge’s 30K race
the next day. So, I was treating this
run as a long-ish shakeout run, so slow, steady, easy. We did 8 miles and it felt great. After we got done, my calf did tighten up on
me a little. I massaged it at the
restaurant under the table and that helped a little. I decided that I should wear calf sleeves for
the 30K, though.
• Sunday: as mentioned, I ran a 30K race this
day. That’s about 18.6 miles in case
you’re wondering…or, it would have been had the lead cyclist not turned when he
was supposed to go straight and led the entire 30K pack off course, slashing
over 3 miles from the course. The race
directors scrambled together and fixed it by adding an out-and-back right
before the end, but they said it ended up making the entire course about .5
mile long, which is also exactly what my Garmin said! So, 19.25 miles ran this day in an awesome
race!
• Monday: I wanted to take a much deserved rest day,
so I hit up the massage place for a sports massage! I had a coupon for $10 off any massage that
one place had sent me for my birthday, so I used that!
• Tuesday: I went to the gym, but between running
short on time and feeling a little “meh” and shaky, all I did was my 65 minutes
on the elliptical.
• Wednesday: went to the gym again. Had full intentions of doing my 65 minutes on
the elliptical AND a TRX circuit workout, however, I found myself feeling a
little “meh” and shaky again, but not as bad as Tuesday. So, I skipped the TRX exercises and called it
good at the elliptical.
• Thursday: planned to go for a “junk miles” run today. Had a 10K virtual race medal to earn and am
still trying to rest my calf and my foot (oh yea, I stepped wrong when I got
out of my car pre-race Sunday morning and tweaked the outside of my left foot),
but didn’t want to take TOO much time off.
Ha. So, I ran easy this day…or so
I had planned on doing. HA! I started running comfortably and being
mindful of my foot (I had it taped to support the head of the 5th
metatarsal bone). My comfortable pace
was 10:37 for the first mile. My foot
felt good after that, so I bumped it up a little bit to 10:14 (marathon goal
pace). I then decided, “This ain’t no
junk miles run! We’re going to do a
fast-ish paced tempo run!” So that’s
what I did. Miles 3-5 were 9:39, 9:37
and 9:27. Then I cooled down with a
10:22 for mile 6 and the final .2 was at a 10:33 pace. It was great to get, I think, my second
fastest 10K time on a training run…and not feel like I worked all that hard
when I was done. I’d say this was a
moderate effort run.
• Friday: I worked overtime on the night shift Thursday
night, so no workout on this day.
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I used my muscle stimulator a fair amount during the early
part of this week on my right calf. That
cramp I got last week was the worst cramp I’ve EVER had! I wanted to make sure it didn’t turn in a
strain or a full-on torn muscle. So, I
took it easy this week with the running, just Saturday and Sunday and then only
one weekday run. And I’m going to do a
3-week taper before the Austin Marathon instead of my standard 2 weeks. I think my calf needs a little rest before I
run 26.2 miles again…and this route has lots of hills! And the hills seem to be what is irritating
my calf the most. I also went and got a
massage on Monday and made sure to tell the masseuse about my calf issues.
I did my best with eating again this week. I was, again, as honest as I could be with
tracking. There’s just some meals at certain
places that aren’t in anybody’s food databases.
So, I type in what I ate and pick what seems right, erring on the side
of picking the higher calorie content option just so I can over estimate rather
than under estimate what I ate, or maybe hit it square on what I ate. I broke my goal to be more honest and
consistent in tracking what I eat on Tuesday.
I had Taco Cabana, fried chicken and a couple cookies. I honestly just didn’t want to face the music
and opted to just write the day off and start over Wednesday morning and do my
best to stick to the plan the rest of the week.
Normally, this is where I’d post my scale pic and my
thoughts on it. However, because I worked
overtime last minute Thursday night, I really couldn’t get an accurate weigh in
Friday and I wasn’t going to weigh in this morning because, well, I had to carb
load for this morning’s extra-long long run, so I’m sure I wouldn’t have gotten
an accurate weigh in this morning either.
So, no weigh in this week. I’ll
be back on the scale next Saturday!
A note, when I wrote about “junk miles” in Thursday’s
exercise entry, I don’t want you to think that they’re miles that don’t matter
at all…because they do. But, they’re not
working toward a specific purpose like speedwork or other workout types of
runs. Junk miles are just miles you run
to log miles.
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