I haven't put together a proper schedule yet, and I'm not sure if I'm going to or not. Right now I'm just doing what I feel I should be doing and doing my workouts based on feel instead of numbers. This could backfire. I don't know because I've never done it this way. My fear is that it allows me to back off of workouts because I am allowed to convince myself that I shouldn't continue. As long as my mind stays on track, I should be able to counter that with the desire to push myself. We'll see!
This week I managed to only get 29 miles in, but it was also the first time I also added yoga into my training. The days where I did yoga before a run were very tough. Tougher than I thought it would be. I thought yoga would mostly help stretch me out and prepare me for a run, but it really made my legs a bit more tired than I would like. I'm building new muscle though, so that makes sense. I plan on continuing to do yoga a few times per week on days where I don't have a hard run planned.
Monday: Normally not a run day, but I didn't know what I wanted to be doing, so I woke up and did 30 minutes of yoga, followed by a four mile easy paced jog. This was the first time that I did yoga before a run and it was pretty challenging.
Tuesday: Yoga to start and then I did hill repeats. I did a total of six hills, which is 2.25 miles worth of hills (up and down). With my warm up and cool down, the total comes to four miles exactly.
Wednesday: Ran at lunch, with the plan of running between six and seven miles, but my legs were zonked for sure. I felt them starting to lose form around mile four, so I started doing some walking/running to finish. So I probably ran close to five miles and walked like two more. Very tired and scared as to what that meant for me.
Thursday: Yoga in the morning. Ran after work and it was hot as shit. Tempo run. I wanted to run the tempo portion longer than I had been doing in previous weeks, so instead of ten minutes I managed to thump through fifteen. As soon as the tempo part ended, I was totally spent. My legs were not running anymore, so I walked home. That always makes me angry. Walking makes me angry, but I felt if I tried to run home, I would hurt myself.
Friday: OFF DAY. First time in a long time that I wasn't tempted to do something that day.
Saturday: Ten miles and they felt GOOD. I was very shocked and happy with how I felt at the end of this run. I felt like I could have gone for a few more if I was supposed to, so that brought back some excitement for running. First really long run that wasn't a race. First long run in a long time that I got that runners high from. Ugh I want to do that again soon! I hope my next long run is just as wonderful. It would make training so perfect.
Sunday: Four miles.....I struggled mentally the whole way through this. Everything felt heavy and tired, but not so much that I couldn't do it. Just heavy enough that my brain kept doubting itself. That's the worst. I'd rather have my body give up instead of my mind.
Overall this is a great first week for me, and I'm getting to that place where I'm excited to see what's to come.
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