So I have penciled out a training program for the next 16 weeks or so until race day!
And I have been within reason of it so far.
Now it has not kicked in to full gear yet. This week I was traveling. The objective was to try to at least get on the treadmill while I was away. And I successfully did that at least 2 days. You get tired after a while and the early morning hotel treadmill is hard. Especially when you add in late night dinners and time changes. All week I was saying things like - it's 8pm and in Eastern time it is 9pm and just a few days ago it was 10pm.... I was good and got to bed around 930 10pm each night so I was reasonable in that regard.
So today I had written SPEED work... and even though it's not now... it has been raining all morning. I wasn't going to do it. and then I realized - it could rain race day... I better get used to it. So off to the track I went.
The warm up got me. I would guess my hydration is low. I would guess my salt and fat intake from the week is high. And I haven't done much skipping, grapevine, shuffle work in a while.... Once around the track I went. And then a little jog.
Warmed up - now for the fun part...
30 seconds to get from one end to the other - quarter of the track. I managed that OK. Although I know my speed has been faster in the past. Then 3 minutes to walk back to the beginning. DID THIS 4 TIMES.
Then some whole track work. Get around the track in 3 minutes with a 30 second rest. it should be closer to a minute rest but did not have patience to reset the timer on my watch. I did that twice. And did OK with that. I wanted to do that 4 times as well. But my mojo was off at that time.
TOO MUCH RAIN perhaps. Or a little overheated.
So tomorrow I am looking to find 7 to 10 miles in me. we shall see how that goes.
