Workout: 6 mile run with Copper in 58:10
Week 1 of my Half Marathon training started out better than I expected. I didn't go into the week with quite the base miles that I wanted beforehand. I really slacked off on the running the last two weeks of school and it was rough to motivate myself to run when vacation started. But I finally got into the grove on Wednesday.
I like having a training plan, but I by no means follow it word for word. I tend to move the miles around according to what I have planned for the day. As long as I get a long run in and end up with close to the same total miles for the week I am happy.
As you can see below in green is my planned miles and in my blue is my actual. Because my base miles were minimum, I didn't push for the full 5 miles on both Tuesday and Thursday. On Friday I ran with Anda for 3.6 so I decided that I needed to give myself that rest day on Sunday and did an extra 2.5 miles after my race on Saturday.
I haven't been doing the Cross Training (XT) that I had planned on doing (Yoga, Pilates, Abs, etc). Instead I have been busy cross training by doing manual "farm girl" work around the house and several hikes/walks with the dogs. This week I plan on trying to get some Yoga worked in somewhere.
Here's Week 2's Training Plan"
Already the plans have changed. Since I "rested" yesterday I decided to run Tuesday's 6 miles today. Copper and I headed out at 7 am for our loop. It was a cool 65 degrees which felt really nice. Wasn't too muggy and there was a lite breezy. When I run out here by my house I really don't have any flat routes so today was more hills. I surprisingly didn't walk much , I just kindaof found my pace and kept moving. I did stop a few times while Copper found a creek to take a quick swim in.
When we made it back I gupled down some Gatorade and tried to find something to eat with some protein. I settled on a Banana smothered in Peanut Butter. It was DELICIOUS! Now onto the "farm girl" work for the day!
