Week 3 Begins...
On Saturday we ran 4.1 miles. Well, actually Brant apparently ran about 7 miles, but I'll wait until that's on our training schedule! The 4 miles went okay - I've found I have a harder time running first thing in the morning - so I am going to try various ways to get some food in me before running without putting in so much food that I feel sick. I just feel like I need to have some sort of energy for these runs! But I did run the whole 4 miles, and I felt okay.
One really cool thing about Saturday was our stretching clinic. Some people from Luke's Locker, a local running specialty store came to give us the clinic. The neat thing about Luke's Locker is that everyone there has actually participated in endurance events like marathons. Anyway, so we had a little stretching clinic (nothing particularly new learned - stretching after running is good - runners need to stretch their hamstrings, calfs, quads and ITbands...) but the cool thing is that after the clinic, they asked a few questions - and one was for a free pair of shoes and Brant got it!
So on Sunday we went to go pick out his free pair of shoes. And so we're big fans of Luke's Locker now. I will go there in a few months when it's time for a new pair of shoes for me. They look at your old shoes to see if they still have life in them, they watch you walk so they can try and get the best shoe for you - all in all I was pretty impressed while we were in the store - and not just because we were getting a pair of free shoes.
The other thing we did on Saturday was this group of core exercises that depressed me completely. Not actually during the exercises. There weren't that many - they weren't that hard...but now here I am, three days later and still sore!! So apparently I need to work on my core muscles! Which I guess is good to know...
Anyway, training for this week - 20 minutes easy, then two nights of 30 minutes easy. Then on Saturday 4-6 miles. Apparently the range is there for us to decide - we can either run 4 or 6. I'm going to try to stick to the high end of the range so that by the time we get to say the 18 mile run I am ready for it. I figure if I always stick to the low end then somewhere along the line I'll be making a huge jump in mileage! So I will be running six miles. I am a little nervous - as that will be the farthest I have ever run, but I'm sure I can do this.
Last night Brant and I both ran about three miles. I ran for 30 minutes, and he ran for about 25 or so. He wanted to take it easy to break in his new shoes. I did intervals - 2 minutes running hard and 2 minutes running easier. However, in the middle there I think it was more like running normal and then barely jogging. I picked it back up for the last few intervals though. It felt pretty good. I was pretty tired.
Tonight Brant is going to try to make it to the Tuesday night workout. He didn't make it last week because he had to work late. So hopefully we'll be able to tell you what the Tuesday night optional team workouts are like. I will be at a networking meeting, so I'll try to get in another run some other time.
The donations are starting to come in - I just hope they keep coming! Thanks to everyone who has already donated!
One really cool thing about Saturday was our stretching clinic. Some people from Luke's Locker, a local running specialty store came to give us the clinic. The neat thing about Luke's Locker is that everyone there has actually participated in endurance events like marathons. Anyway, so we had a little stretching clinic (nothing particularly new learned - stretching after running is good - runners need to stretch their hamstrings, calfs, quads and ITbands...) but the cool thing is that after the clinic, they asked a few questions - and one was for a free pair of shoes and Brant got it!
So on Sunday we went to go pick out his free pair of shoes. And so we're big fans of Luke's Locker now. I will go there in a few months when it's time for a new pair of shoes for me. They look at your old shoes to see if they still have life in them, they watch you walk so they can try and get the best shoe for you - all in all I was pretty impressed while we were in the store - and not just because we were getting a pair of free shoes.
The other thing we did on Saturday was this group of core exercises that depressed me completely. Not actually during the exercises. There weren't that many - they weren't that hard...but now here I am, three days later and still sore!! So apparently I need to work on my core muscles! Which I guess is good to know...
Anyway, training for this week - 20 minutes easy, then two nights of 30 minutes easy. Then on Saturday 4-6 miles. Apparently the range is there for us to decide - we can either run 4 or 6. I'm going to try to stick to the high end of the range so that by the time we get to say the 18 mile run I am ready for it. I figure if I always stick to the low end then somewhere along the line I'll be making a huge jump in mileage! So I will be running six miles. I am a little nervous - as that will be the farthest I have ever run, but I'm sure I can do this.
Last night Brant and I both ran about three miles. I ran for 30 minutes, and he ran for about 25 or so. He wanted to take it easy to break in his new shoes. I did intervals - 2 minutes running hard and 2 minutes running easier. However, in the middle there I think it was more like running normal and then barely jogging. I picked it back up for the last few intervals though. It felt pretty good. I was pretty tired.
Tonight Brant is going to try to make it to the Tuesday night workout. He didn't make it last week because he had to work late. So hopefully we'll be able to tell you what the Tuesday night optional team workouts are like. I will be at a networking meeting, so I'll try to get in another run some other time.
The donations are starting to come in - I just hope they keep coming! Thanks to everyone who has already donated!
1 Comments:
sounds like you are getting good training. i hope you are able to thank each of your donors properly.
good luck!!
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