Training so far this week has been hard but I feel as though I’m continuing
to make progress. Monday was 8 miles in
the evening after work. I decided not to
run until the evening so give myself a little more rest from the traveling and
my cold / sinus infection, which always feels worse in the morning. The 8 miles weren’t bad as I explored a new
neighborhood in Ashburn. I weighed 155.0
in the AM.
Tuesday was a 12 miles in the morning and overall I felt
good holding under 7min miles but I did notice my knee was starting to hurt a
bit. I found I could alleviate the pain
by stopping to stretch, so that kept me going.
I was tired after the run and felt like I couldn’t regulate my body
temperature all morning at work. Weight was 153.0.
Wednesday was 13+ on the cider path of the W&OD and it
was unpleasant. I ran in the evening and
it was deceptively hot and humid out. I
was running out and back and due to the mile markers I knew I was running slow,
dropping to 7:30 pace at times. My right
knee and achilles both bothered me a little bit from time to time but I pushed through
and stopped quickly to stretch when I started
to feel it more. There is only one water
fountain when I run South so I looked forward to visiting it both
directions. I was hurting but managed to
make it 6.5mi out, meaning there was no cutting this short. It was a survival run home. I covered the distance in 1:34. I felt slow and unathletic but was proud of
myself for running 13 miles when I wasn’t feeling good. I believe doing that every so often is good to
preparation for pushing through pain in races.
Weight was 153.0 again.