Rest. 5-6 miles on the training log, but I am swapping out Sunday's rest and Monday's 5-6 fairly consistently now. I also had a stressful day at work. But in the end .. A FANTASTIC conversation with the owner of the company that had been LONG over due. AND .. an apology from the source of most of my current anguish. WIN! I think I feel in control of what next steps need to look like on that front, and so I went home and slept like an absolute baby!
Tuesday
Distance: 4 x 1200, with .5 WU and .5 CD, and ~200m recoveries.
Pace (set by ladies I train): ~11:30 overall
Major pluses: my trainees willingly opted to run the 1200s, and walk the recoveries. That took them from 2 min run to 8+ run. Woo! :) And they ALL hit their indicator goal for 1200s EVERY interval. I was so proud of how hard they worked, and how far they've come! Can't wait to see them all racing it up on March 26!!
Itty Bitty Bummer: Disappointed a bit to say that I was not selected to run the 2016 NY Marathon. The lottery gods were not in my favor. More on that in a minute.
Serious bummer: the top of my left foot started hurting at the half way point of the last interval. I could run through it easily enough, and if I ran faster, I felt it less. Unfortunately, 1. I can't run faster with participants, and 2. why the heck would the TOP of my foot hurt.
Post-training run, I did a little web MD style google-macation. Either .. I was wearing the sneaker too tight (extensor tendonitis is the actual term interweb gave me for this) .. which is possible considering that my Mizunos are for sure more snug in the uppers than my Brooks. Or I have a bone spur .. but that, the interweb said, is usually accompanied by swelling, redness, or a bump. None of those for me. So as with everything else: RICE. Rest. Ice. Compression. Elevation. Besides that, I won't wear those Mizunos on Sunday if I am sure they will make it worse. (I don't have to wear them until then either). I also read about lacing my shoes differently to relieve pressure: http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/straightbarlacing.htm. Trying that Thursday.
I felt it into Wednesday, and am curious to see how much it will plague me for Thursday mile repeats, and/or Saturday's (short) long run (10 miles). Please, running gods, not an actual injury less than two weeks from the Publix 1/2 Marathon. Anything but a serious injury, okay??!! Pretty please.
My 1st Lottery
I was very unprepared for this 1st! We do A LOT of educating around the most minute of details around racing: from what to eat for breakfast, how to use a trash bag to keep yourself warm before start, to how much time to allow for porta-potties on the day of a race. But NOBODY tells you how mentally draining a lottery day can be! I was unprepared.
Its very funny actually, considering that I began the year (just two some months ago), 95% sure I did NOT want to tackle a full marathon this year. Why try it now, when the girls are 17 & 15. Focus time on them, and marathon train as the nest gets emptier, right? Well, then I heard that your odds get better each time you enter a major race's lotto, and are not selected. (this has since gone to the wayside, but it used to be that if you were rejected 3 times, you'd get in guaranteed the next year). Anyhoo, that got me thinking that I should start now, and just run it in whatever year the race gods deemed it so. Being a Jersey girl, NYC for sure is on the bucket list. And when you look at things realistically, I've been on this earth 37 years, and only for 2-3 have I ever been this physically capable. I hope I get even better, but .. there is a chance that something derails me. There maybe a time where I can't do this anymore. Wouldn't it be great to get 'run a marathon' off the list right now, while I know I can?
Soooo... fast forward to the day of the lottery, and what started out as luke-warm mixed feelings quickly became anxious obsession. Check the email, check the bank account, check Facebook. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. 784 times. (Okay, I didn't count, but I'm sure it was close!) And then all of the bustling excitement from friends who were selected. You're happy for them. But now that you've convinced yourself that you might want to do this too, its frustrating to know that you can't.
All that said, I was actually pretty proud of myself. At some point in the day, I actually managed to talk myself out of the panic attack that was surely destined to take hold. I told myself something simple, but something that I needed to hear: you deserve good things. You may not always get them, because the world does not work that way. But this isn't karma, and there's nothing you could have done better. Whatever happens, you deserve good things. And by god, I believed myself. And then, I found it very easy to stop checking the site, the bank account, and the email. Later that afternoon, they updated to let unselected runners know, and that was that.
I'm going to go ahead and throw my name in the hat for Chicago. If I happen to get in, it does make me a little nervous, because the time frame for training shortens by a month. But both Brandi and Angelina are also considering it, which would be a super awesome way to run a first marathon. If I didn't get into Chicago (or maybe even if I did), I will lotto again for NYC next year. And either next year or in 2018, when I turn 40, I will go ahead and raise the 2620.00 in charity funds that the NYC marathon requires for non-lotto charity entry. I haven't decided what I'll do this year if I don't get into Chicago. I know I want to start shooting for training at the longer distances in the fall, so I will be in-training for a marathon unless injury prevents it. Now, what to do with that training is the big question. Might as well decide after the drawing for Chicago. Although I've already told friends that they need to sedate me and take my Iphone for that one; I don't think I can handle two lotto days in that short a period! lol.
Thursday
Rouge Ocee speedwork
Distance: 1 mile WU, 3 x 1 mile with 400 recovery
Work intervals: 8:23, 8:54, 9:14
Teehee, so someone oopsed on sustainability! ;) But actually, that first mile felt fab! I think if it hadn't been for the top off foot 'saying hello' mile 3, I could have had three straight under 9. That foot though, really did start to mess with my gait, and by the 3rd interval, I just needed a big ole recovery lap at 9:30 before kicking it up again.
Its so frustrating that I am ALWAYS feeling something. When its not the back of one thigh, its the calf in the other leg. And now .. the top of my left foot?! Ugh. I blame not being at the right weight for running. And not stretching enough. And not strength training enough. But honestly, my house is a zoo with just what I have been doing, so we'll just agree to muddle through!
Friday
Swimming tonight! :) Can't wait. Swimming relaxes me. And I have a plan: 4 x 100m. (8 there, 8 backs). Objective is not to touch / stop for a recovery 10 seconds (or drown) until each 100m mark.
Baby steps.
On deck
Fairly flat 10 miles Saturday AM (short? taper? long run), Women's 5K training Sunday (not so flat), and Run Lead meeting for Peachtree kick off training immediately after. Next week, another Good Measure Meals week, and taper for .. dum dum dum .. Publix 1/2 marathon race on 3/20. EEEEEeeeeeeEEEEeeeeep.
To talk about goals for that race is going to be tricky. For one, Top of Foot. Is it a momentary problem? Is it going to plague me for 13.1 miles. But lets set goals assuming the best there. If I don't meet them because of foot, I would be a-okay with that; injuries = null and void in my book. No record breaking running through a broken bone type of athlete here! The other major unknown (kinda known) is the course. I have never raced it myself, but I hear it is fantastically hillacious! Most runners who've done it before compare it to the Atlanta 10 miler, which is a beast! Keeping that in mind, loose goals of:
90% - under 2:30
50% - 2:14
10% - PR (anything better than 2:14)
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