yay- i did 6.5 miles today! the best motivator for me now is saying that i will do something and then i do it - or do more! i did the treadmill at the gym at the hotel on friday - i told myself i was going to run saturday morning, but i found time in between the meeting and dinner out on friday. after sitting so long on the plane and in the meeting it felt good. my goal was 2 miles, but i felt so good that i did 3.5. the other factor is continuing to stretch myself - especially since that 13 mi goal is looming. today my goal was 5 mi - although when i got in my groove on mi 2 i thought i might be able to do 7, but after mi 3.5 - holy crap did it get hard!! - but it really helped to walk a minute every mile like hal higgens said. i did this by time, since my usual pace is 16 min. At mile 4 I found i had some new time/distance related issues including: my left arm got incredible tired, i got chafey under my right arm, and i got pretty snotty as my head was draining. At around mile 5 i bonked and stopped running nonvolitionally - it was weird that i stopped even though i didn't tell myself to stop. i let myself walk for 1.5 min then got back to running - slowly (oh also the sun was BLAZING). after that i walked a little after every half mile. i thought i had hit 6, so i was surprised that when i mapped it - 6.5 - whew. the trouble with out and back is that i wanted to leave room to do more, so i went out 4. when i got back - i still had to walk about a mile and a half. i'm so glad to be HOME! - i feel good for the accomplishment. tomorrow i rest, but i think i should start a light weight routine to assist my training. might help with the arm thing.
we can do it!!
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Teresa - that's GREAT! Now go take some time to recover and take care of yourself. :-) I agree with the weight training esp. the upper body - the one place I have noticed soreness after these longer runs is my arms/shoulders! Its actually quite a workout to hold your arms up and stay vertical for that long. Plus since you work in front of a computer, and have breasts, you are also having to compensate for tight pectoral muscles and overstretched weak back and abdominal muscles from sitting at work. The weight training (especially shoulders and back and abs) helps to strengthen and activate those weaker muscles which will help keep you vertical and that in turn will help your hips and legs (and arms).
Good going Teresa!
Go Teresa! Congrats!
One thing you may consider is 'gu' or other 100 calorie sugar pack gel. I can't do the long runs without these! 1 before, 1 about every 3 miles (or 30-40 min). I also chug cytomax after which has electrolytes and sugar. Keep it up and see you in LV :-)
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