When I saw my plan for this week on Monday I was kinda shocked. Like how the heck am I gonna do this?! After such a big weekend and me being still SO sore. Everything was hurting so bad... but the other day I was asking coach something and he replied with "How do you eat an elephant?" And I was kinda like "Um what??? I don't know, I'm not a lion 🤣." He said: "One bite at a time." So I reminded myself to take it one day at a time. I couldn't believe tho how sore I was and how slowly I was recovering - or more like not recovering. I can barely move still and I see others doing big runs already today like wtf, why am I this weak...maybe I should quit Strava so I wouldn't see what others are doing.
70mins easy on Tuesday morning. Was the most painful run of my life. Not painful like actual pain but just my quads are still so sore I was kinda like wtf is thiiiiiissss... I was not even 30mins in and I was already thinking I hope I get hit by a car so I don't have to finish this run. Every step sucked. Big time. But somehow, I pushed through. And it felt SO good to be able to get through this run, so uncomfortable but still finishing it. That gave me so much confidence that I can actually do this week. It just opened a whole new dimension of running on tired legs. I tried my new handheld bottle for the first time. It was pretty uncomfortable at first, I don't like to carry anything in my hands, but I got used to it and it was actually kinda nice and as you drink, it gets lighter obviously. I guess I'm a fan. And I found out there is a nice, brand new bathroom on my route! There is also a water fountain, which is not working yet but I hope it will - I still can get water in the bathroom tho so that's nice.
I couldn't believe I had hill repeats in my plan this week!? If coach wants to get rid of me, he can just say so, he doesn't have to do this to me :D. I wasn't sure how that would go... but I woke up feeling better. Start was really slow and easy. I felt pretty good on the first rep. I only had 5 but also less time for recovery in between them. I actually took an extra 10sec or so before the last repeat. It would be a shorter run but I saw that if I do 8K I'd get 250K for April. So I did just that :D. I was pumped after this run. Locked in! I felt like I'm actually putting the work in, I'm doing the hard work with this and it's showing me that I can do just that. Pretty grateful for my coach showing me that. He also said I'm making this week my bit** :D...let's gooooooo
First real double day. I had one before but it was a short run and then Prairie later so that doesn't really count. I felt okay. Took it easy at first but then I wanted to pick up the speed a little so I can leave the really slow pace for the second run in the afternoon. As I'm running down this street, just along the main road, I see this woman in front of me, she did this weird hop/jump thing so I was already alerted and started to go as wide as I could around her. All of the sudden she turned around, put her arm in the air where I saw something in her hand - most likely a bottle but couldn't tell - and started to go after me, screaming something about Jesus! I was like WTF?!!? I jumped into the road because I had nowhere else to go and started sprinting away. It scared the heck out of me. Like whyyy, what the heck! I was glad there were no cars coming cause I would get most likely hit. It took me a bit to just breathe it out and calm down. I still had quite some time to run and then also strides. I tried to go all out on strides but there was absolutely nothing. No speed and no power, it was pathetic :D. The rest of the run was luckily uneventful. It got really warm in the afternoon. Of course. I was not excited about that at all. Through the day I felt super strong about doing a double, especially in the morning but as the day went by I was like, hmm maybe not :D. But I still laced my shoes and went for it. It was terrible. My legs were SO sore, like my calves and everything hurt so bad and I was just like why the F am I doing is. I wasn't running slow tho. Even tho I wanted to but my pace was kinda fast. So I just went with it. I hated every thing about this run. And to make it even better for myself, I decided to do few extra kms to make it a nice half marathon for the day, cause why not right. Why not make it harder. Super proud of myself again tho. I did my first real double run day and survived! Tomorrow is the last run before rest day and I can't wait!
Whoa, that was slow but felt good. I can't believe I did it. I finish this week feeling so strong! Still bit sore tho but I'm pumped! Honestly, can't wait to not to run tomorrow :D.
I was so glad we didn't actually plan anything for Saturday. I was at first thinking that I could do a run in the morning before we leave and then another one either between our competition runs/on lunch break as we were kinda in the middle of nowhere and there was nice straight road that I could easily run on for an hour or so. But as the day went by, I was happy it was just a rest day, it was hot AF and it was busy. I just tried to sit and relax as much as possible and even tried to take a nap while on lunch break haha, didn't really work but still It was in the end an 13hrs day and I was dead when I got home and went to bed super early. Not sure how much rest that actually was but we shall see tomorrow.
Very happy that the weather turned around and it was nice and cool so I didn't have to wake up early to get the run done. That being said, I had really hard time going in the afternoon. Was planning for around 3:30 but didn't get out until after 5pm. I wasn't feeling very good. I had some intervals, the long 5mins ones, which I didn't realize until kinda later hah. It was supposed to rain so I took my light rain jacket. I was warm, really warm, waiting for the rain to start...and it never did! I was pissed haha, definitely overdressed. The first 30mins should've been easy but I didn't go as slow as I expected. It was okay tho. I definitely started bit hot on the first interval, it felt hard. But I was determined to do all 3 at that pace. Second one started and I was like holy crap how am I gonna hold this...I didn't wanna look at my watch how much I still have left. When I started to feel like I'm gonna puke or whatever, that burn in your stomach/chest area, I still had 20sec to go! I was like Oh my god...and I still have to do one more. I walked a bit and then shuffled for the rest of 3 mins recovery. OK, last one, I can do anything for 5mins....but maybe not run at pace under 5mins/km 😅🤣 I started to feel the same pukey feeling again, but this time it was only at 3:48 out of the 5mins, I was dying. I did finish it and didn't throw up but man, that was tough! And dumb 😆. I also noticed that I'm about 14K short of 60K for this week so I decided to make sure I hit that. My run was supposed to be way shorter but it seems like coach didn't notice even so it's all good! :D
60.7K / 6:44 running time
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