Thursday, April 5, 2012

Day 118 (4/4): 3 miles / 27:30

Just not feeling it. 

I have a few things I'm battling this week... fortunately, none of them are a big deal... unfortunately, they're all effecting my training.

Issue 1:  Not nearly enough hours in the day.  My scheduled 2 days off quickly turned into 3 when my day for myself on Tuesday left me with absolutely no time for my scheduled 4 miles.  Not that I'm complaining... my "me day" included shopping for some much needed clothes (this running thing is really great for weight loss... not so great on the checkbook) and a massage, which I truly felt I'd earned.  Earned or not, I enjoyed every minute!  A few hours of my evening were spent with my son and, after he went to bed, I had a million little distractions to deal with.  I'm fairly certain that, when all was said and done, I didn't really accomplish anything, including (sadly) my training.

Issue 2:  It would appear that the amazing massage from my "me day" did me more harm than good.  Odds are that my body is all out of whack and I probably needed exactly what was done.  Regrettably, it's caused some muscle soreness that I wasn't anticipating and, until I can work out the kinks, I'm finding that I'm a little uncomfortable.  And getting around for my day to day activities is one thing... but running was something else entirely.  I normally reach a point of soreness or fatigue toward the end of my run, but today I was actually uncomfortable from my very first stride.  I gave myself a mile to loosen up and, when that didn't happen, I stopped for a few minutes to stretch.  Unfortunately, this didn't seem to make much of a difference.  So I gave it another mile.  With no improvement, I opted to walk for a bit to see if that would help.  Mile 3 was still very uncomfortable and I decided that it wasn't worth a potential injury.  With 5 miles still to go for today's scheduled workout, I called it quits.  I did spend some quality time with a few ice packs, worked on a whole lot of stretching and threw in a little yoga for good measure.  But, even after all of that, I still felt like I didn't do enough.  Either way, that was all I could give it for today.

My sad lesson for this week: If I'd skipped Tuesday's massage and run instead, I'd probably be feeling pretty darn good right now :( 

And I'm officially giving up the massages until after marathon day... when there will be no question that I will have earned it :)


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