Week 1 of marathon training is in the books. 6 workouts, 1 tempo, a lot of easy running, and the hardest strength workout I've done in a long time for 21 miles. It looks like where I thought I could do some kind of workout every day, that just isn't possible. I took rest days on Wednesday and Friday this week where I had an easy run and a strength workout.
The IronStrength workout was crazy hard and I don't think I can do that twice a week right now and will do it only once a week until I get a bit stronger and learn to stretch better. I think if I stretched a little better I would not have gotten such stiff legs and stiff shoulders.
Most of my running was done on the dreaded treadmill which is not ideal since I don't like the mill, but I really don't like getting up at 0 Dark 30, putting on the cool weather gear and heading out for a run, when the treadmill is right downstairs in the basement. I can only go so long on the treadmill which may mean some doubles are on the way.
I'm pretty happy with where week 1 has gone and will hope to continue it throughout.
This coming week I'll be running my work's 5K fun run, where I try to keep up with graduate students, med students, dental and law students. Faculty and staff don't like to run it very much because the students finish the 5K quickly and leave while we older people are still out running and the Celtic Solstice 5 miler on Saturday. It's a fun race and a great way to end the year.
On to week 2 and more miles and more fun :)
Keeping on keeping on.
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