What a week it has been! Busy and lots going on, forgive me if I ramble! Training was hard this week, but I got it done. It was the first week of my "official" training plan that I made up for the next 30 weeks, I got all my runs in. They weren't all without some pain though!
Monday- 4 miles, easy pace. I noted this as BLAH on dailymile b/c I had a stomach ache the whole time.
Tuesday- 3 tempo on the TM. BLAH again, really struggled to keep my speed up, ended up with 10:03 pace.
Wednesday- WALKED and stood all over Six Flags. My legs and feet were killing me and this concerns me. I'm going to do a half day at Magic Kingdom the day before the race, I hope it doesn't leave me feeling like I did Wednesday!
Thursday- 3 AWFUL miles. I had planned on doing my normal 4 mile loop of my town but cut it short b/c my feet were in pain and I was concerned I would have a PF flare after months free of pain.
Friday- REST and stretching. So sore still and pretty worried.
Saturday- Finally! I was worried b/c I was due for a 5 mile run. It was pouring so we headed to the gym and I set the TM really slow. Most of the time I ran a 10:54 pace, but sometimes I bumped it to 10:42 and then I sped up the last half mile. Felt really good and no pain!
Sunday- REST!
SLOW needs to be my new mantra. If I want to get my mileage up, I need to learn to slow it down. I'm supposed to be training for distance.
I was pretty worried at how sore and in pain I was the day and the day after walking at Six Flags. Does anyone else have problems when they stand for long periods? It doesn't make sense to me that I can run for so long but I can't walk and stand without ending up in pain?
We had a great time for Dallas' 18th Birthday, my mom came out to visit and crushed us all in Monopoly. She was pretty pleased with herself! She said she never wins Monopoly.
On top of being a busy week, Dallas & I had some scheduling conflicts with training. He wants to train with me but does not wake up as early as me and this lends to problems with coordinating our runs. He also wants to go to the gym more than me. We talked today about what would work best for my training and his.
My petsitting is pretty early and I'm usually wanting to run right after I do my morning sits. My training schedule had me doing a long run on Saturdays and that is not going to work. First and foremost because Saturday is my busiest day usually and I have more clients. When my runs get longer, I think I won't have enough time on Saturday. The gym also does not open until 8am on Saturday (this is a whole other rant, really. I live in a small town, that's basically why. They don't open until 11am on Sunday!)
In any case, there will be times in the winter that I will need to do indoor runs and waiting until 8am isn't going to cut it. So, after looking at it, I realized I could just scoot the whole thing back a day. Instead of M-T-TH-S for runs, I can just do Su-M-W-F. This has my long runs on Fridays, which works better! I know, this is crazyboring, but I need to document it somewhere. This is the new training plan. I also bumped up some of my mileage sooner as some people suggested, I think this will work well.
I keep having the urge to go in and bump those miles up even more! LOL..I'm just going to have to play it by ear a bit and add miles if I need to. I'll drive myself crazy if I keep changing it. All in all, it was a busy-fun week for us and I got my miles in, but they were hard miles. Hoping next week isn't such a struggle!
Do you ever find you are more sore from walking/standing than running? If you have run a race at Disney, did you tour the day before? Half day before? (this is not really negotiable, I MUST get the girls to Magic Kingdom for a bit on Saturday!)
For this past PHM, we did about half a day at the parks the day before (plus my shopping at the Expo) and it didn't seem to impact my legs for the run. Now, for Expedition Everest challenge, we did the parks that same day (it is a night race) and I REALLY felt it in my legs during that run. So, for Wine & Dine I won't be doing anything during that day! Also, I tend to tweak my training plan throughout the process!
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking if I'm wearing my running shoes (I'm BAD about wanting to wear my teva mush flipflops in the parks! DOH!) that it will help and we're just planning on MK in the morning and heading back to the resort for the afternoon/evening.
Deleteyou can easily do MK the day before. We did half day at MK and hit the expo before the wdw half. then the day of the race, after a shower, we went back to the parks to keep our muscles moving. it was painful, but it would have been worse if we had just laid around. then the next day, we did another almost full day at the parks. I was walking really slowly and like a little old lady, but it was good to keep moving. now after a long run, it is fairly painless walking around and doing whatever it is i want to do. stairs can still be tough, but hey, i just ran 13+ miles... of course something is going to be sore.
ReplyDeleteAfter the race I know I'll just keep going, but I'm concerned b/c somehow walking and standing seem to be harder for me than running?
DeleteSometimes have a problem with my knees when I sit for a period of time and then stand up. I think its from having runners knee.
ReplyDeleteWe have always gone to the parks AFTER the races. ( besides, it's nice to wear your bling to the parks). You aren't usually sore right after the race, it usually kicks in the next day. We went to the MK the day after the full marathon this year and there were so many runners in wheel chairs, ( not because they were injured, just because they were sore). My sister was really starting to feel the pain half way into our day at MK. Doing stairs was hard for her. We made sure to take all the handi cap ramps we could that day!
Definitely most of our touring will be AFTER the race, but to fit it all in, we really need that half day at MK on Saturday. I'm hoping it will be ok and I'm sure I'll be overly cautious about it too!
DeleteA half day, or even one full day should be okay, as long as you take it easy.
ReplyDeleteI did DL/DCA/expo for 5 days before running the half last year- BAD plan. By the morning of the race, my knee was already in pain. I took some ibuprofen to take the edge off, but towards the end I was limping and ended up walking a lot. After the race, I could barely walk. So, lesson learned. :/
Ouch! Yep, I'm usually pretty sore a couple days into touring, I cannot imagine running AFTER touring a bunch! That had to have hurt!
DeleteThe first time I ever did a park before a Disney race I toured the park in a wheelchair because I had taken a big fall on a short run that morning. My friend insisted that I "Rest Up" and so she pushed me through the park in a wheelchair (it worked, I PR'd the next day). I think a half day is the most I would do at this point. Knowing how much I've walked through parks, my legs would be exhausted!
ReplyDeleteMy daughter was worried that I would hurt myself during the race and I laughed and told her that I will NOT miss Disney, she can just push me in a wheelchair if needed! LOL
DeleteFor PHM this year, we did the expo and Downtown Disney Friday and a half day at Magic Kingdom Saturday. Made sure to be back at the hotel early though to relax my feet/legs/back from standing and walking, and was perfectly fine the next day :)
ReplyDeleteGood to hear Lauren, that is exactly our plan! Me and the girls will arrive on Friday, hit the expo, DTD, and then Saturday morning go to MK only until lunch. I have us back at POP, swimming and even eating dinner there on Saturday, so I'm hoping pooltime will help! It will be HARD not having a drink by the pool though! LOL!
DeleteLOL so true, but just think about that delicious post-race drink waiting for you! :)
DeleteIm always way more sore after standing than I do after walking or running. I dropped my gym membership at that place years ago due to the hours.. Most people want to get the workout out of the way early on weekends.. Have you tried the anytime fitness that is located in the same town?
ReplyDeleteShelley, I've never considered Anytime Fitness only because they don't have a pool like the Centre does. I wonder if they get complaints about their weekend hours though and would consider changing them?
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