Weekly Rundown- I Ran a Race!
Hello! It’s Sunday so of course I’m linking up with Kim and Deborah for the Weekly Rundown. I’m also joining San and our fearless and creative NaBLoPoMo Crew for 30 posts, one for each day of November. The week started with some aches and pains, and ended with a race! In between, there was very little running. If you remember, last week my sleep was terrible, I had a mysterious pain in my hip, AND, my foot hurt. Believe it or not, I don’t mention every single ache and pain on this blog. Between work and working out, there’s always something. The outside of my foot had been hurting after every trail run, and I deduced that it was probably from my trail shoes. I hoped that a lot of rest would heal it up before my race on Saturday. Let’s see how that worked out… Monday Leg day at the gym! I did this more out of fear than anything else. I didn’t get to the gym last week, and I knew if I took TWO weeks off, I’d be so sore I wouldn’t be able to sit down the next time I went. Squats, deadlifts, abs, and hip stability exercises. Tuesday Sigh. Instead of running, I did this: 40 long minutes. I don’t like the stairclimber, but I like the endorphins I get from it- ALMOST like running. I followed this up with the abs machines. Wednesday In the morning I did Caroline Girvan’s deadbug workout, then spent the rest of the day grieving my loss of faith in humanity. I was going to wait one more day, but in the afternoon I decided a run would be just the thing. 3 miles, and nothing hurt. Victory! Thursday I did this MadFit standing abs and arms workout. I’ve really been neglecting upper body lately! And I did my hip stability exercises. Friday I did Caroline Girvan’s deadbug workout, and that was it. Saturday Race day! This was a race in the same state park where I ran the Dunes 50K two years ago. Luckily no dunes in this one- we ran a a 4.3 mile loop on a trail over and over again. I ran 27 miles! Well. According to my Garmin. My official mileage was 25.8, but let’s not quibble. Let’s just say I ran an ultra and call it a day, ha ha. Part of the discrepancy is due to the fact that I took a wrong turn TWICE and went off course (more details coming in the race recap tomorrow!) Given the fact that my training for this event was sub-par- my longest run was 15 miles- I’m very happy with 27. That’s somewhere between my conservative prediction, and what I was thinking in my wildest dreams (if the weather was great-it wasn’t- and if I were feeling amazing, I had toyed with the idea of running 50K.) Anyway, I’ll happily take 27 miles (or, 25.8- whatever.) I ran this race in my road shoes. It was a little dicey at times, but I think it was a good call, because my foot was fine. Next on the agenda: finding new trail shoes. Sunday On tap- oh, maybe a little 10 mile run. JUST KIDDING. I will obviously be taking today off. I’ll sleep in, eat waffles and enjoy some football. How was your week? Do you have any races coming up?