Today is Global Running Day.
Did you run today to celebrate? Or
did you maybe do something else active? Running isn’t all about running. Shocking, I know. But to be a decent/good/great/whatever
runner, you need to have a strong body overall and JUST running can’t do that
for you. If you want to avoid injuries
you need to watch your nutrition and cross train and do strength training
too. So, I’ve been doing pretty dang
well with my nutrition for the last 4.5 weeks and I’ve also been making a point
to do my cross training at the gym and at home and, now that it’s summer time,
on the streets too by cycling!
So, since I ran yesterday and am planning to run tomorrow to
kick off not being able to workout at all (other than walking around the
parking garage at work on breaks) as I’m working 16 hours tomorrow and Friday and
then a shift on during my normal hours on Saturday, one of my days off. So, today, I hit the elliptical for 65
minutes and followed that up with some quality strength training. Now that it’s June, I added a second upper
and lower body exercise to my workout.
The other thing I did to celebrate Global Running Day today
was to sign up for ANOTHER marathon. I think
I need help. I was going to sign up for
this one marathon that happens like the 3rd weekend in December, but
that one isn’t happening this year (probably because they had a horrible turn
out last year according to a friend of mine that ran it). So I thought that maybe I would run San
Antonio Rock’n’Roll again. Well, RNR posted
a Running Day special. $69 for this year’s
marathon. I couldn’t resist. And then went ahead and made my hotel reservation
for the historic Menger Hotel. Loved staying
there last year so I’m really looking forward to staying there again this year! So, this will be my THIRD year running THREE
marathons within a THREE month-ish time span.
I do love the number 3. <evil
grin> I’m not a marathon MANIAC for
nothing!
In the past, I’ve shared a few of my reasons for
running. I’d like to ask you to take a
moment and comment on this post and let me know some of your reasons for
running!
Cool! I'm signed up for RNRSA too!
ReplyDeleteWoot! We need to have dinner the night before or after the race
DeleteWoot! We need to have dinner the night before or after the race
DeleteOr lunch afterward, but we definitely need a plan this year!
Deleteoh yes, lunch afterward would be good too...somewhere airy! haha, my hotel is the menger, so i can shower quickly after. i still have your phone number unless you changed it, do you have mine still?
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