Hola', One week of training has already passed, only 17 more to go! Plus, I have already accumulated over 17 miles in one week. That being said, I have not even run, in the past week, the total number of miles I will be running on 1/17/2010 in less than 4 hrs and 15 min (my goal finish time). My training today (Hal Higdon's Week 2 Novice Training Schedule) consisted of REST and to evaluate how I felt after my first week of training. My first job at hand was REST; CHECK , my second job was evaluation how I felt after my first week; CHECK. The no running/rest was great, and the evaluation of last week was super. I woke up today and was concerned that the ankle and foot pain might come back from yesterday, but I am completely fine. Neither foot gave me a problem, I walked a bit today and was grateful because it very
possibly could have side lined me for a while. When I look back over the week, I feel very good
about the training from last week and intent to stick to Hal's Coaching Rules: "Training is when you follow a schedule, such as this one, where each day has a purpose. If the weather is bad, you still run. If you have important business, you simply rise an hour early to run. Why? Because I told you to! And if Hal tells you to rest, you rest. Pay attention, follow my directions, and I'll get you to the finish line 17 weeks from today. That's a promise!" So, because he promises to get me across the finish line, I will agree to follow his motivating and carefully developed training program. Looking forward in my program for this week, I have a 3 mile run for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and a 7 mile "long run" on Saturday at 6am.
Today's Tune is one of my all time favorite running songs, it has been with me through both of the last half marathons and many other races as well (10k', 5k). It is Paramore's Born for This. Amazing... when I am having a hard run or hitting a wall, I put that song on and when Hayley sings, "sing, like you will never sing again," I imagine it is saying "run, like you will never run again" and then I feel grateful for just being able to be out there putting one foot in front of the other. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. Until tomorrow - Kelly
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Tough weekend for you, but man, you pushed through it. I'll try to be as strong when I face my challenging days. Like poop day! LOL I love my mp3 player and the songs I have loaded on. I only wish I could see the dang screen to make changes. So blind. I have it on shuffle, that helps, but sometimes I'll get a slow song when I need a fast one. Oh well. Love your blog!!
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