How is this going to work?
Tuesday night's run was good vs. bad. My standard just over 3 mile course, coming in just over 24 minutes. Not up to par with last week's 3 mile course but still better than my average on a longer (4-5+ miles) so it's still on the right track but I didn't feel like I was pushing as hard as I could so that is a good thing?!?
Spinning last night was fablous. We had a sub again, Julie, I love her. She pushes us so much harder than we go normaly. I leave unable to walk and loving it. Today I was even tight walking up the stairs at the metro station. Julie had us do a new type of stretching last night. I've always known this but she kept me after to tell me I need to work on my posture and body position. She suggested Yoga or Pilates, which I've always enjoyed but since i started running more seriously (a year ago!) I've barely thought about Yoga (OK so that's not totaly true as I have 2 video's I've borrowed from Shelley and have been known to Tivo a class or Two from FitTV). So, on my 30 minute drive home last night, since my cell phone was dead, I had no option but to think and I came up with a new plan which involves 2 nights a week of short, fast runs. One of those nights will be Tuesday and I will do Yoga when I'm done, and the other will be Thursday where I will finish with a few laps in the pool to work on my newly acquired swimming skiills (far from it but I learned how I'm "supposed" to swim, lets see if I can actualy do it now). Wednesday is just spinning until I'm more conditioned and Monday will be a longer run, increasing my mileage accordinly to get to my goals. Then on the weekends I want to get in a nice long slow run and another day in the pool.
I've also been going out far too much and that needs to stop. I do not need to cut out a work out for happy hour(s) 2 or 3 nights a week. Although I will say in the past 2 weeks each night I've gone out I've done so AFTER I got in a quick run!
I've got a month until December, which starts marathon training full time. Hopefully this schedule will get me through the next few weeks so I have a habit developed by the time that starts! Hard to believe it's that late in the year already! Slow down time!
So there it is, a new plan.
Spinning last night was fablous. We had a sub again, Julie, I love her. She pushes us so much harder than we go normaly. I leave unable to walk and loving it. Today I was even tight walking up the stairs at the metro station. Julie had us do a new type of stretching last night. I've always known this but she kept me after to tell me I need to work on my posture and body position. She suggested Yoga or Pilates, which I've always enjoyed but since i started running more seriously (a year ago!) I've barely thought about Yoga (OK so that's not totaly true as I have 2 video's I've borrowed from Shelley and have been known to Tivo a class or Two from FitTV). So, on my 30 minute drive home last night, since my cell phone was dead, I had no option but to think and I came up with a new plan which involves 2 nights a week of short, fast runs. One of those nights will be Tuesday and I will do Yoga when I'm done, and the other will be Thursday where I will finish with a few laps in the pool to work on my newly acquired swimming skiills (far from it but I learned how I'm "supposed" to swim, lets see if I can actualy do it now). Wednesday is just spinning until I'm more conditioned and Monday will be a longer run, increasing my mileage accordinly to get to my goals. Then on the weekends I want to get in a nice long slow run and another day in the pool.
I've also been going out far too much and that needs to stop. I do not need to cut out a work out for happy hour(s) 2 or 3 nights a week. Although I will say in the past 2 weeks each night I've gone out I've done so AFTER I got in a quick run!
I've got a month until December, which starts marathon training full time. Hopefully this schedule will get me through the next few weeks so I have a habit developed by the time that starts! Hard to believe it's that late in the year already! Slow down time!
So there it is, a new plan.
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