Have a ways to go!!

With Thanksgiving being this week, I did not get in all the miles I scheduled for myself. Before I get to this week I will mention the Turkey Trot that I ran last Saturday. I did surprisingly well. I was expecting around 2:00 to be about when I would finish, but I was able to finish in 1:37 and change. I was really excited about that.

On to this week. I trained with Marquis only on Monday due to the holiday. I tried to run after and made it 1.5 miles due to the fact the training I did aggravated my back quite a bit. I was pretty frustrated about it. Eve though I shouldn't be, I know. I am expecting too much to soon.

Tuesday I ran 4 miles with Patsy, we also ran 6 miles together on Tuesday. That was all the miles I was able to get in till today. My daughters car broke down and I helped get that going and then Thanksgiving I didn't run either. Friday I had to work on the car some more. So today I decided to do 20 instead of the 16 I had intended to do. I wanted to make up a few of the mile I missed out on.

I made a few mistakes going forward with this run. I didn't eat anything before I took off and didn't take any food with me to eat during. I did this all on 6 gu's. Big mistake, because by mile 13 I was ready to clasp and just throw in the towel. The problem was that I was 7 miles away from home, so I just had to tough it out.

Going out, I had the wind at my back, so it was pretty easy to maintain a consistent pace. I went out the fist 10 miles in 2:04. Coming back I slowed down quite a bet. Came back in 2:29 and change. I was into the wind and my body was weak from not having any food. The only calories I had was the Gu.

I felt a lot better after I had a shower and some food in my system. I took a muscle relaxer and some pain reliever, then lounge in front of the TV the rest of the evening.

I'm back

Well, my 3 months of waiting to train is complete. I am far from 100%, but I am on my way back to being in the shape I was before my surgery. I actually did my first run four days before I had scheduled to return. I just couldn't wait to get back at it.

My first run was 4 miles this last Saturday and did a 6 mile run the next day. I'm not going to lie. It was slow and pretty uncomfortable. I also started training with Marquis Monday. That really hurt. I am feeling better all the time, but the progress is very slow.

I will be working with Marquis three days a week and also doing my training runs five days a week. My first run this week was yesterday and I was able to do 6 miles in a little over and hour. I was exhausted after it was over.

My training sessions with Marquis are similar to what I was doing before. Sprints, strength training with muscle confusion along with boxing and core work. I have no idea what I will be doing when I show up. That is what helps the muscle confusion.

I started a 4 mile run today, but I guess I developed some chaffing last night and I noticed it on my run today. I ended up cutting it down to 3 miles and I will make up that mile on my run tomorrow. I signed up for our local Turkey Trot and going to do the 10 mile run.

I feel with the training runs I have done so far, that I will okay to do the 10 miles this Saturday. I will be running Sunday also. My running training plan is very intense so I will be prepared for my 100 mile race this February. No time to to rest from here on out. I have been waiting for this for a long time.

I gained 20 pounds in my healing period that I am going to get off as fast as possible. When you go from training to flat on your back, it hit me hard and I couldn't do anything about it. Glad to be back, will shout at you all in a few days.