48 days. Can you believe it? Time is pretty much flying by and we are now at 48 days until Marathon Sunday. I can’t believe it’s gone from 100+ days when I first signed up to just 48. A little over a month and a half! I know it’s going to be here before I know it and hopefully by the time it gets here, I am ready to run. After this past week of running, I think I am mentally there, just need to put a few more miles on my legs to get them a little stronger!
Wednesday 3/28: 5 miles. I didn’t feel like doing anything but running this morning. No tempo paces, no speedwork. Hopefully logging miles is equally important because that is all I could face this morning. I ended up finishing with an average pace of 9:20 though so I didn’t exactly take it “easy.” I just ran to run!
Saturday 3/31: 20 miles! My first ever double digit x 2 run! For some reason this is how I think of it 
Not just double digits, but TWICE that far!! I still cannot believe I ran that far on Saturday and lived to tell about it! My legs ended up being quite sore for a few days though which was new to training. My last few long runs have left me totally unscathed so I am not sure what the magic was about 20 miles that all of a sudden turned me into a limping, in pain, runner? Hopefully this gets better after some more foam rolling this afternoon…
Monday 4/2: 5 miles. When I woke up this morning, I was still feeling really wobbly so I was not sure how far I would be able to run this morning. Looking back, I should have just went back to bed and forgot about running this morning… It was just one of those runs where everything and anything goes wrong. I felt horrible, my legs felt like lead, it was terribly windy, I was over dressed, cars and people were being rude and dumb, etc., etc. The only good thing about this run was it ended. Yikes! Hopefully it was just a fluke…
If it weren’t for my run this morning, I would have called this week a success but we’ll just hope this was a one time thing and move on. Hopefully it’s just another case of the Mondays and will quickly pass!
Happy first week of APRIL!!
Great job on your 20 miler! I take the day after a long run and cross train-ride a bike, elliptical, ect. And then take the following day off. I find that the pain is residual for about 2 days after a long run and doing light cross training the day after works out the lactic acid, then I have a rest day, then I feel better to run again. Because you are right, something about the 20 makes things hurt more. I just thought I would share what works for me.
I normally do the day after cross training but this week I just did Yoga and I don’t think that ended up being sufficient… I think I might try out that Monday rest day thing though. My last few Monday runs have just been a waste of time
How exciting you are more than halfway to the race! Awesome job on the 20 miles.. that is just so intense! I have never ran that far, my farthest is 14, but the day after I did a light swim and a walk. My body just felt terrible ha?
I know, the end is in sight!! And I remember my first 10 mile run made me feel terrible too so maybe that’s just required? Ha!