I really need to learn to acknowledge/heed the warnings my body sends me so that it doesn't have to hit the self-destruct button just to get my attention. I know that I can fight off head colds when I'm doing everything right, and it's not hard to figure out exactly what I did wrong in the last 2 weeks. My nightly sleep slipped down from 8-9 hrs/night to 7-7.5, which is probably what hurt me the most. And then there's the fact that I let myself freeze in my apt, while bordering the underweight line, instead of just paying the extra $20/month it would probably have cost me to keep the heat higher. My body wasted so much energy trying to keep me warm, it couldn't fight off the head cold. Lesson learned: it's not worth it to save $20 a month. I'm two weeks out from my race and now I have a cough that is unlikely to be gone by then, since it usually takes me an average of a month to fully get rid of a cough. The only good side to this is that I'm being forced to take it easier in these weeks leading up to the race, when I would have kept training hard until the last week. So the forced easier runs will probably help in the end. But, depending on the coughing situation, I may not be able to get the PR I've been working so hard for. My lungs have been the only thing preventing me from getting one before this, and they are now compromised. I haven't completely given up hope yet, and I know there will be other chances next year, but this PR is what all my training has been leading up to for the last year, so it will be really hard if I show up to race day knowing it's not in the cards. BUT I've been taking extra good care of myself since Wednesday, and even made chicken soup from an entire chicken for the first time ever today. All I can do now is continue to take extra good care of myself and hope for the best!
The plan this week was a 4 mile tempo on Tuesday and 10 miles on Thursday. But Tuesday we got out of school at 1 for Halloween, so I decided to take advantage of the extra time and do my long run. After making plans to run a few miles with Chuck in the middle, I decided to push the first few. I'm glad I ended up getting those fast miles in, because when Thursday came around I was too sick to do a tempo run. The last mile was my fastest at 6:50, and miles 2 & 3 were also under 7:00, so I definitely got some tempo miles in this week.
This week :
M : hill run 6.3 / 8:34 / 725 ft
T : circuit training 33:15
run 9 / 7:27 / 397
(3.6 hard, 4 moderate w/Chuck, solo finish with last 1 hard)
W : rest
R : run 5 / 9:02 / 344 ft
F : rest
Sa : walk 1.6
TRX 35:00
Su : run w/Corey 12.45 / 8:09 / 814 ft
total miles 32.7
In other news, there are only 2 months left in the year and I am 80+ miles ahead of my goal for 1500 miles in 2017. October saw the fewest runs of any month, but the 3rd highest mileage, 2nd highest elevation gain, and it definitely had a greater percentage of faster runs! I've already passed last year's mileage, and the 2 years before that were each under 1000. It's nice to be injury free!
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