Wow, is it Tuesday already? Life is just flying by - the older I get, the faster time speeds right past me. Okay, enough of that. I have two big events to share with everyone this week:
#1 - This is the very first time ever - as in ever since I started running ever - I followed the training plan and (a) ran when it said to run and (b) ran the distance it said to run. YAY! I finally get it! After all these years there is still hope for this old dog learning some new tricks!
#2 - For the first time since my near fatal car accident in August 2012, I RAN. When I say "RAN" I mean consistently ran - not the "Galloway run/walk system" like I've done since the car accident, but I ran, without stopping, without walking. I felt so alive and so blessed and so grateful. It was so slow, much slower than the run/walk thing, but if I had to pick stamina or speed, I'd pick stamina every time!!!!! Someone even called me a bada$$ on Facebook - while I blush, I also say "thank you, Jamie"!!
(NOTE: To all you "Galloway people" out there, I am not disrespecting the system - I mean, gosh, it saved my life - it gave me hope that I could get back to running despite doctors telling me I'd never run again. I owe Mr. Jeff Galloway a big fat hug and will gladly do so the very next time I see him at one of the race expos!)
As I add the distance as my training plan prescribes, I am hoping that more of my running becomes "full on" running even though I know most of it will continue to be the run/walk routine. I'm just grateful that I can put one foot in front of the other in an upright position, and I always need to remember that.
Thanks to item #1 above, I actually have something to report as far as my weekly training goes. In case I haven't revealed this fact to anyone yet, I am doing the Hal Higdon's "Novice Supreme" 30 Week Full Marathon Training Plan, minus the first couple weeks since I was busy doing the Cleveland Half Marathon. I thought it best to start from scratch and train correctly, even if I did have to cut off the first couple of weeks! I just checked the schedule and last week was officially Week 6 on the HH Training Plan:
So here are my training results:
Monday - Rest
Tuesday - Ran 2 miles on the home treadmill (14:09 / 13:46)
Wednesday - Ooops, I overslept in the morning and got lazy in the evening, so I bumped the remainder of the week's training by one day
Thursday - Ran 3 miles on the home treadmill (14:02 / 14:03 / 14:13)
Friday - Ran 2 miles on the home treadmill (14:03 / 14:04)
Saturday - Cross-Trained 1.5 hours (note: plan called for 30 minutes walking)
Sunday - Ran 4.5 miles (13:57 / 14:24 / 14:41 / 14:08 / 7:00)
WEIGHT/EATING: Right off the bat, I failed in any weight loss - well, if you want to count .2 lb. go ahead, but really that's nothing. With regard to my food plan, I mostly stayed on track but I did see a couple areas where I definitely can look toward improvement next week. I had two luncheons for work where I had to eat what was provided and couldn't bring my own lunch, plus I had dinner with friends on Friday night and showed up too hungry to be appropriate with my food choices. I probably should have had a later lunch - oh well, next time.
GOALS FOR NEXT WEEK: As I continue onto Week 7 of Hal Higdon's "Novice Supreme" 30 Week Full Marathon Training Plan, I would like to try and stay on track with my eating, and drink more water. Heck, even if I drink SOME water I'll be better than before. It's not that I'm drinking something instead of water, I'm just not drinking anything.
I would also like to force myself to run outside a bit. I'm in Southwest Florida where it is over 80 degrees by 8am and 95% humidity daily, but I have a Garmin Vivoactive that needs to be calibrated so I can use it on the treadmill and without a few outdoor runs, I'll never be able to actually use it on the treadmill.
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