My wife has a bachelorette party tonight in Atlantic City. It's officially tonight but it's starting at 11 am today. We decided to just bang out our 10 miles running the Art Museum loop in Fairmount at 6 am rather than run with the group and possibly not make it the bus for pickup. It takes her fooooorevvvveeeer to put her makeup on(don't tell her I said that).
The miles just melted away, nothing huge, I can't count how many times we've done that loop. The thing that worries me is next week, when we'll be in Boston for a wedding on Saturday. We're scheduled for 14 miles that day. That would be a record for both of us.
The current plan is to do the run on the Charles River Bike Path after we fly in on Friday. We'd probably run/walk it even though that's not our usual style. I don't like doing long runs in places that I'm not familiar with. I'm neurotic like that. Another option would be to do something like 8 or 10 in Boston and then do 12 when the rest of the group do 9 the week we come back. I think we'll have to play that by feel.
I only did 21 total miles this week, including the 10 we did this morning. I think the low mileage kept my legs fresh for today and it made the run easier. I may keep following the training schedule of less in-week miles. I may have been over training before.
One thing that does concern me is my big toe on my broken ankle is feeling tingly after long runs. It definitely seems like some sort of nerve issue. The question is, is how serious is it? It started after my nightmarish 12 miles from a couple weeks ago. I was so tired and dehydrated, I'm hoping my form just pinched a nerve or something. I also just switched shoes. I loathe the alchemy that is picking out a right shoe for you. I could be touching down on big toes more than my last shoes, and my bad ankle might make that worse. I did kind of feel that towards the end of the run. It seems to be getting better, definitely isn't getting worse and if it stays the way it does, I'd be satisfied with that.
I have no idea whether I'm right or not, but I'm feeling anxious to get to 15 miles. I feel if I can do 15, I'll be able to do 26.
My name is Jim and my wife and I are training for our first marathon. Here's all my training posts to date.
It was a beautiful day wasn't it? Glad you and Sophorn were able to finish your miles together. We missed you though and I guess we are going to miss you next week too :(
ReplyDeleteYou'll get to 15; one week/one day at a time. Listen to your body though... and take it easy when it tells you to. The run/walk thing is great for that.