I had another good week this week.
Monday - rest/yoga
I started off with a rest day after my "long" run on Sunday. It's nice to start the week on a rest. I did some yoga in the morning, which maybe helped with me just feeling really good all day. I was worried that after 3 miles the day before, I would be stiff and sore all day, but I felt good.
Tuesday - 25 mins/1.95 mi
This was a timed run day, not a mileage day. I ran for 25 minutes (about 15 with the dog and 10 without) and managed about 1.95 miles (+/- FitBit error). I ran around my neighborhood and added a few cul-de-sacs for both timing and small hills. Nothing I couldn't handle and nothing too steep either. But I find my pace increasing when going up hill, I think I need to slow down.
Wednesday -
In which I am supposed to rest and do yoga and instead do nothing. Just didn't have time in the day for anything, but oh well. Still felt good.
Thursday - 25 mins/1.8 mi
Today was another time day, but the dog was just NOT cooperative. It was much more sniffing than walking/running. I eventually just paused my run and walked home with her, so my 25 minutes actually has like a big 10 minute break in the middle. Not ideal, but I have 30 minutes to both walk the dog and get a run in, so I kind of have to combine the two. I added the cul-de-sacs again and tried to take it slower on the hills today. Worked a little bit.
Friday - rest/yoga
Today I made time to do yoga first thing in the morning. Instead of sleeping in an extra 10 minutes, I just got up and did it. Same one from Monday (because I'm a creature of habit and will probably do this one for a while).
Saturday - 34 mins/3.1 mi
I woke up and it was raining in the nation's capital. Rainy and damp and cool. So you know, the perfect day to go running. I tried a high school track closer to home today, took me 3 minutes to drive there and then I had the whole place to myself for some reason ... odd! (/sarcasm) The track was not as nice as the other one, I'm pretty sure it was just asphalt and not the rubbery bouncy stuff from the rich high school. This is probably better for real world training, but I still missed the extra help. Even with that though, I managed to run a bit better this week than last week. I managed to run the first 1.5 miles without stopping versus 1.0 miles last week. I wasn't killing myself, tried to stick to the same tempo (between 10.5 and 11.5mins/mi), just kept running (now Dory is stuck in my head, ha!).
The only problem I had today was that I lost track of how many laps I had run after 9. I knew I had a couple more to go, but wasn't sure if it was two or three. Turned out to be three, which sucked, and I only figured it out by looking at my time (see earlier post about how my FitBit does not track mileage well on a loop). Oh well, I got it done.
Total - 6.8 miles
The best part of the week - no injury pain! After each run I'm doing a really good stretch, including the PT specific ones for my injury. I'm feeling confident that this time I've got the injury licked, but I'm not getting cocky, still going to just take it easy and run.
Things to Work On
Pacing - I try to get my pace twice every lap or when I feel like I'm running too fast. This seems to be working for now to keep me in my window. But, I want to look at Garmin's over Black Friday.
Finishing - I have this really strong urge to sprint across the "finish line" and I have to remind myself, "No, this is just training!"
Weather/Clothing- I'm pretty good at knowing what to wear in the summer (as little as possible), but I haven't trained outdoors during the winter before. So I'm starting to track temperature to know how it feels to run and what I should be wearing. Today was 60F with 98% humidity and a dew point of 66F (T&D of 126). I needed long sleeves for the first two laps, but after that I rolled them up and got a little warm. Next time, just a tshirt.
Fall is coming!
