40 more days to go!!

Yesterday marked 6 weeks to my very first Half Marathon!! 

Here's what I have left of my training. 
However I will be modifying it and adding in an extra week after this week.
 Glad I started a week early. 

The first column states what week, the last column states how many total miles for the week. Monday - Sunday.

So like I said I'm sneaking in a week between week 8 and 9. My reasoning is because the original week 9, I'm suppose to do 11 miles that saturday which would have been fine if I wasn't doing 7 miles for my race on Sunday. I don't want to over do it so I'm just going to make the 7 miles my long run and then pick back up to 11 miles the following week. I don't think it will hurt me. It'll be like I tapered and then BAM 11 miles. Besides that way, my training will actually end with my actual race day like it is suppose too. 

So my new week 9 will look something like this:

Monday: Rest

Tuesday: 5 miles  & Strength train (depending on if I wake up early enough!) 

Wednesday: 3 miles AND/OR Strength train OR rest 

Thursday: 4 miles

Friday: Cross train

Saturday: 5K race - 3.1 miles

Sunday: U Can Finish - Distance Dare - 7 miles

Now on to the fun stuff, my training this week.

Monday rest day. Tuesday I was suppose to do 4 miles but after my strength training workout (that kind of killed me!)I decided I was going to do the 4 miles on the treadmill. That's a shocker for me. It wasn't terribly bad but I got light headed and then I was cutting it close on time and was already going to be late for work so I ended up only doing 2.6 miles. 

Sorry no pictures of the treadmill. I forgot. Bad blogger. But here's me all sweaty and glorious.

Wednesday I had intentions on working out and getting in 2 miles to make up for Tuesday but I didn't. It was suppose to be a rest day anyway so I rested some more.

Thursday I hit the pavement. Was doing great until I hit mile 3 and my body just wasn't feeling it anymore. It's "that time of the month" and I felt like mother nature just punched me in the gut because she was mad at me for working out. But I finished and felt good afterwards. 

Splits for 4 miles.

I walked quite a few times during the last mile. 

Friday I did another fun cross training workout that I must share this wednesday!!

Saturday was 9 miles. 9 long miles. It was hard but not terrible. My pace actually ended up being really good.  I tried not to stop but every 1.5 miles to drink some water with Nuun and do some ankle circles. My right ankle tends to both me. I hope it's just that it was time for new shoes because I got some new ones & they're BROOKS! Overall it was a good run though actually better then my 8 mile run! I finished my 8 mile run (that was actually 8.41) in 1:28, I finished this one 9.09 miles in 1:31. 

My Splits.
I really like Sportbeans Jellybeans for my runs. 
This was my 2nd time trying them
but I really feel and can see the effects. I took the sport beans during mile 3. I can tell that it hit me around mile 6 because my pace during miles 6 - 9 where the best and my fastest time was actually during mile 9! My slowest was mile 5!

My favorite thing to do after a hard run (and not so hard ones sometime) is collapse on the floor as soon as I get back to my house. Then I get to reflect on my run a little bit before I realize that I stink and need to shower haha.

Recovery run on Sunday was decent because it was a recovery WALK! I got to test out my new shoesies! I needed to get some studying in and I can't do that whole run and read thing so I walked and studied. 

So there you have it. 40 more days to go and I'm feeling pretty good. I actually thought after my 9 miler - hey just 4 more miles and you're there! November 10th will be here before I know it and I hope and pray I do great. I can. I will. I believe in redefining my impossible!

Random QOTD:  Do you use hashtags (#) a lot??

 If you do.... here's a good laugh! Happy Monday!

xoxo, Preshii


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