After being away for a couple weeks, with just life and pretty much excuses for why I wasn't getting all my runs in...I'm back. The reason I started this journal was to be accountable and again I let my life get in the way of getting through the runs. After mostly missing my runs, I'm getting back on track.
My 11 mile long run was scheduled for today. I had to work and when I got home, I wasn't not feeling well, after some rest, got myself into gear and to the gym with the goal to get through the entire run. I was on the treadmill 1% incline 12min/mile pace. The first hour went by and I had to restart the treadmill. I decided I would run the additional mile and then restart the treadmill again. Got through the that 6th mile and restarted for the last hour. Got through almost 2.5 miles more, so just about 8.5 miles total and my I couldn't keep going...wasn't a cardio thing, both my knees were bothering me and probably more mental toughness than anything, and probably my earlier illness. Plan to get back on track with a 3 mile run tomorrow to make up for the few miles I missed today.
Then onto week 15. I can't believe the race is already in 2 weeks. Monday 3, Wednesday 4.5 and Saturday 6, with plans for strength class both Tuesday as I'm off for working the weekend and Thursday.
I need to start thinking of what I'm going to do after walking the half marathon. I'm probably going to redo some of this current plan, maybe even restarting from week 5. I still don't have a goal race, going into winter the opportunities will become less and less, unless I do a destination race (would love to do another rundisney race but probably not in the cards next year unless they bring back tink at
disneyland). Definitely race ready for a 10K, would need to redo the last couple weeks of training runs to be well prepared to run a half marathon. I should look at the intermediate training plan too, but think the intermediate training plan I was looking at before is 4 runs a week and at this point 3 is much more doable as I really want to try and strength train twice a week. Lots to think about, but getting back to it!