And we return to your regularly scheduled "training" journal.
There hasn't really been much. I did do a 45min incline walk on the first day of our spring break trip on the hotel treadmill, but after that I didn't really do anything. The left hamstring seems to have resolved (hurray!), and in its place I am getting occasional twinges on the outside of my right ankle (boo!), which dr google tells me could be peroneal tendonitis? I'm not really worried about it at this point: I need to get back into good stretching habits, which help prevent other things such as PF, and get back into the habit with my assorted calf raises. This means I've taken an entire month off after refereeing ended which I'm not super excited about, but if it means I go into this training block with less nagging issues I'm going to be OK with it.
I think I'm making friends with one of the other female referees. Making new friends as an adult is weird, and hard, especially when you're trying to arrange things around 4 other people's schedules. ANYWAY. Turns out that she and her boyfriend moved this past summer from the East side of town, and are only about 10min away from us. She's a former college field hockey player (I think that's what DH told me) with no kids and a pretty flexible job, and she works out a lot. (AKA, she's fast and I'm not sure how well this would work.) I'm going to see if she wants to hike once a week while DD is still in preschool and if that works out, maybe run together or do a hills/stairs workout that the XC kids do at a nearby boat launch. I'm 100% the problem when it comes to scheduling anything with all of the sports schedules and DD, so fingers crossed.
On the shoe-front:
I have ordered 2 more pairs of Hierro v8 shoes: a half size larger in the mens, and in my usual women's size because past experience tells me that a women's wide (D) is actually wider than the corresponding men's standard (D) width. Does that make sense? No. No it does not. Has it been true for multiple pairs of 1080s? Yes. I am finding pretty good deals on these ($80ish instead of $150) so as soon as I find a pair that fits well I'll more than likely order a 2nd pair so I have one to do the bulk of my training in, and another to "break in" and then save for race day. After I have actually put some miles on the first pair to make sure I don't have any other fit issues of course.
Weight loss?
Yeah. Sneaking this one in here. I'm trying very hard to not be weighing/measuring things out in front of the kids because one particular invariable makes some inappropriate comment (that he thinks is a joke) or starts obsessing over calories. I decided to try more of a generalized approach where I'm massively prioritizing protein (an trying to stay away from "carb-y" things) for breakfast and lunch, and then eat whatever we have for dinner as a family, and then that's it for the night. Some form of intermittent fasting? Not really IMO because if anything it's close to 12/12, but it does mean that I'm cutting out a lot of empty calories from snacking in the evening. I lost 4 pounds before spring break, loosened the reins during vacation since I had a lot less control over the meal choices and didn't backslide much, so hopeful that this continues to be a pretty un-stressful way to approach this. I'll more than likely have to add in more calories once the mileage ramps up, so we will see how things go. Weight loss and training blocks don't always go well together, but I would really like to lose 15-20 pounds before my trail race. That's only 1 pound per week, so I feel like it's not a crazy goal.
OK but for real, training:
All the talk about RWR makes me think that I should consider incorporating a magic mile into my plan (that I will likely be adjusting because the longs runs are just too long for my other commitments.) We have a lot going on right now (starting on the 14th we have baseball games or track meets 5 nights a week, until late May) but the idea is to get into the running routine because I'm supposed to be starting my whole plan 1 month from today. So theoretically I should be running a Magic Mile in the first 3 days of May to see where I'm at for pacing and intervals to play with. And then from there, do another MM about once per month. And there we have it. Me making yet another plan. Maybe I should try to stick to it? Follow through? Do the dang thing?
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My suggestion is get the 1bd in a resort view, request the Grandstand section with a near pool request. That puts you really close to the Carriage House and boat launch. I wouldn’t change rooms if you can swing it, too much going on with the races.
