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At this point in my training I should be running about 3-5 miles a day. No biggie, you think. That’s a girl who was running 7-12 miles just a few weeks ago.
Well my friends, I have news for you. My training went from the great outdoors of downtown Washington DC, to the great indoors of my office’s gym. You know what that means, don’t you?
Now before you go getting your petticoats all bunched up let me be perfectly clear that we are not canceling the half marathon. Just the location. To whit:
Last week, in an effort to continue our revamped budgeting effort, I was meticulously going through our copious travel plans for 2010. One trip that we are both looking forward to is a visit to Nanny and PopPop C in February where they will be lounging in a vacation home in Florida very near Walt Disney World.
I have been, by all accounts, really sucking at my half marathon training. Last week I was in such a funk that the last thing I wanted to do was sweat. Actually, all I wanted to do was rush home and make dinner for my husband and pout. And that’s pretty much all I did.
Annnyhoodles, realizing that this is not the appropriate way to reach one’s goals, I strapped on my sneakers and went for a 5, 6 and 7 mile run recently.
I’m most excited for the 7 mile triumph because that is
This is all super compelling as I have a race coming up on Saturday and just signed up for my FIRST EVER 10k!!
Did you have any fitness break through this weekend? Or were/are you in a slump, too?
Recently I ran 5 whole Princess Miles. In under 45 minutes!! I’m so thrilled with myself.
However, last night I was in a WORLD of hurt. Seriously, even my tush hurt. So upsetting. I was lamenting my aches and pains to Husband who reminded me that my body was just getting used to all these new exercises, and the new routine, which, I remembered is super outstanding.
Recently, I came back to my Princess Miles training with reckless abandon after giving myself 7 days off. I strapped into my sneakers and was off for 4 miles, completing the circuit in 37:45. Totally solid, though we’re not setting any personal records by any means. This mini-triumph can and does only mean one thing.
I am going to be in a world of hurt on the next run.
This weekend, while in Jtown, I ran the back half of the pretrain, the 3 and 5 Princess Miles. Three miles around my neighborhood is no big deal. 1.5 down, 1.5 back. Whatever. What I totally disregarded is that there are som MONSTOROUS hills in la hometown del Wife and Blog and despite it being the dead of night when I ran, I was sweating like a not-so-pricess beast and my hammies were totally screaming.
Before I set off on my Princess miles yesterday I took a gander at my schedule. Apparently the pretrain is to last for FOUR TO FIVE WEEKS! Couch to 5k claims that I should be on pretrain repeat for this long without much discomfort before starting the half marathon program. If not I may risk injury. WHATEVA I said. I’m an A+ elite squad runner.
And then I went on my repeat 4 Princess mile run. Holy MOSES. My legs were screaming.
In an attempt to keep to my schedule, and keep you all deliciously informed of my life, I’ve decided to chart and report on my mileage in the training program, couch to 5 k, in prep for the Disney Princess Half Marathon. Hooray! I can’t decide whether it will be more annoying if I post every day that I run versus every week’s results, so we’ll give the first week, the pre train a shot at the everyday recap.
My mileage for this race will obviously be measured in and refered to as Princess Miles because I am in fact a Princess in training!
Pre Train — Wednesday 4Princess Miles.
