Subject: RE: Sunday 4/18/04 ...am I crazy...Yesterday I did the MS Walk so no running for me. When we got home I wanted to bike, but the yard beckoned me and I happily gardened for four hours. My muscles are sore, but in a good way, today. I lifted a lot of bags of topsoil and did a lot of weeding. This morning was my "long" training run. I'm doing the Olympic training with an emphasis on running. I got a new really cool watch that allows me to set lap times in advance. I set up three intervals: 22 minutes, 22 minutes, 4 minutes. That way I could turn around after 22 minutes and head back. The first mile was, as always, wonky feeling. But by the end of the run I was actually feeling like I could go a little longer and since I wasn't 4 min from home (4 min was my cooldown interval), I just kept running up to 50 min. It felt glorious! This coming week will be strange because I have a conference with kids in Yakima. I'm hoping I can steal away some time for working out. One of my students is a runner and is training for a sprint tri (we're doing it together) so we're going to try and get at least one other runner to head out with us and do some running. I'm hoping to eat least get some decent workouts in while we're gone, and get some sleep. Don't generally get a lot of sleep on these trips! |