10K Training - Week 2

Week 2 is so far going kind of lame-ly. Monday I did some Pilates for my strength session and felt really good and strong. But Tuesday I ran with a friend - she's not a super fast runner, but faster than me. And going out too fast wiped me out. We did 3 miles but I'm gonna guess that we only really ran half of it. So yesterday I decided to skip the cross training in favor of getting the mile-ish I missed in - so I went out planning to do 1.5 nice and easy. My roommate wanted to go, but about 7 minutes in (before we got to the 3/4 mile turnaround) she wanted a walk break. Which was fine except she never wanted to start running again. So my cross-training yesterday consisted of a half mile run and a mile walk. Oh well. Still 30 minutes I guess.

Today is a short run day (2 miles) - I'm going BY MYSELF. Hopefully 3 days in a row of running won't hurt me but it hasn't been too far mileagewise (will be a total of 4 miles)

Concerning my foot - still hurts - I didn't go to the doctor, but I did talk to a woman I work with who is an AT. It turns out my EHL (the muscle that pulls up your big toe) is REALLY tight. As in, when I stand, relaxed, my right big toe doesn't lay on the ground. So I've been working on limbering up the muscle to see if that helps. I'll keep you posted.

... the joys of unfitness

So unless I get a complaint, you're going to have to hear about my workout life outside of running ... and possibly about my diet ... and if I get really carried away, maybe little tidbits about my life as well. And I'm one to get carried away. hah.

Actually, you can complain all you want. This is my blog. You don't have to read every word ... or every post ... or ... at all.

Anyway, on with it for today:

up at 6, pilates for ~20 minutes. I was expecting it to take longer. I wanted to get a good 30-40 minutes of activity in. I suppose I could have done the whole thing over again, but man was it hard. I need to take Pilates slowly, just like everything else. But my head wants to be super-athletic. right. now. I'm looking forward to the pilates 3x a week though, strengthening my legs and my core will no doubt help me with my running.

This getting up early thing isn't so bad at all. I do need to get to bed earlier if I'm going to keep this up though. I don't feel tired at all, but I really should be getting more than 5 hours of sleep a night. I'm going to try to be in bed by midnite tonite. If I fall asleep quickly, that's 5 1/2 hours. haha. Baby steps.