Yup, you read that right. I did decide to do another half marathon. I signed up for the Mo’ Cowbell Half Marathon. This course is known to be decently flat which is exciting. My training is going to be following a training plan loosely. As in, I will move around days and if my body doesn’t feel like doing a certain workout, I will do what it feels and not feel guilt about skipping or adjusting. That’s what I am telling myself at least.
Life update: I donated my hair, so this is my first official week of running with short hair and I can already tell you, it has not proven to make me faster…yet. I am also working to adjust to this heat and taking it slow. Which is apparently what all the cool kids are influencing these days for running.
I moved my week around because I ended up running with a friend so I adjusted and moved my workout to Saturday. Typically I wouldn’t do a workout before a long run, but it wasn’t a bad workout since it was just easing in.
Monday
I did a nice 4 mile run.
- 10:04
- 9:51
- 10:02
- 9:55
Then an evening 1.6 mile walk with the family.
Tuesday
I ran a little over 3 miles.
- 10:24
- 10:15
- 10:36
Walked a little over a mile in the morning with the little one and then a family 1.6 walk in the evening.
Wednesday
Walked 2 miles on the treadmill and then 2 mile family evening walk.
Thursday
3 mile run with a dear friend
- 10:02
- 10:09
- 9:51
Walked 1.7 miles with the family.
Friday
Just a nice 1.5 mile walk with the family.
Saturday
4 miles running – this was my first workout which was a 40 minute run with the last 10 minutes being faster
- 10:37
- 10:20
- 10:11
- 8:48
The 10 minute pick up actually felt really good and I was pleased with that last mile split too.
Sunday
60 min long run – ran 6.1 miles
- 10:17
- 9:54
- 10:10
- 9:34
- 9:44
- 9:27
I know everyone has their whole “run in zone 2” or run super easy mindsets and I think that’s great, but I also would love to be comfortably running sub 10 minute pace for my long runs and get back to sub 9 minute for my shorter runs. I know I’m talking completely against what is being preached out there, but I’m comparing myself to myself when I was at my peak running shape. I’ve always been one that just goes out and listens to my body. But when I went to do that 40 minute run and I went out and did super easy pace and then picked it up, I honestly felt better picking it up. My knee hurt less and I didn’t feel I was dying or anything. I don’t know where I am going with this, I think it’s more that I’m going to stop worrying about what everyone out there is saying and just go back to doing me. I’m just so far from where I once was and I don’t want to hold myself back.
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