Blah, sick!

I've somehow managed to "find" a cold. All season I stayed relatively healthy, and I'm going to say it's because of the working out, but this weekend I got sick. Just that pesky nose, throat, head stuff but it makes for less than exciting work outs. Last night I traded in my sweats and sweatshir and headed to the gym. The cold rainy weather would have probably made the health problems worse.

I "cross trained" 5 miles. Is this like running? Felt like it for sure. The only difference was my feet didn't leave the ground. I then lifted for 45 minutes. I'm tryin to increase my work outs for the last 2 weeks. I know it sounds crazy but in my head it works. If I work out longer, I'll be less tired, right? Lat night I felt great. More importantly today I felt great. My legs weren't sore or tired (not that they normaly are on Wednesdays, the normaly are on Thursdays). I lifted legs after running because I read that it helps to strengthen them to build endurance. I'm going this direction for the next few days. Tonight I will only run because it's 8 miles so I will be working out over an hour already. I'm taking tomorrow off and then running 4 miles (peice of cake) and lifting hopefully at the new Bettendorf Y. Then I'll do my long run on Saturday morning. 12 miles this week.

So that's the plan kids. It's still icky outside. I hope it's not as cold as it looks. I don't know if rain is actualy falling or not. I'll find out real soon when I go outside though!