Training Tuesday – DC half marathon week 3
I have five weeks to go – can you believe it? If you had told me a year ago I would be able to fit running in on my lunch hour, I would have told you that you were crazy. Now, though, it’s my new normal and I’m so glad I do it. It saves me so much time in the morning and evening when I know I won’t get it done.
I need to add stretching into my goals for the next week. I think I’d really benefit from a lot of stretching.
Back when I was marathon training, I started having some soreness in my hamstring. The marathon really did a number on my legs, and now three weeks later, the soreness lingers – and is sometimes pretty bad. It hurts when I walk, run, sit. I’m definitely going to get it checked out, but I think I may know what is wrong (thanks to dr. Google) and stretching and rest is what I need. Right now, though, I’m going to push through it so I can complete the half marathon next month.
Now. My workouts!Ā
Tuesday – Off to a great start for this week! I ran 3.5ish miles at lunch. My Garmin said 3.8 miles, but my boss’s running app said 3.4. I don’t know why my Garmin was so different from her app. We ran for 37 minutes and it was a really good run.
Wednesday – sick baby. No running.
Thursday – 3 miles – It was freezing. Literally, the high for Thursday was 34 degrees. I’m not a fan of cold weather (running in it) and the wind was brutal. I pushed through, though.
Friday – 7 miles – 1 hour, 18 minutes. I ran the first half before I met up with my boss and finished out my run. It was still cold and a little windy, but not as bad as Thursday. I wanted to get my long run of the week done by Friday because rain was forecast for the whole weekend. I felt good, with the exception of landing on my ankle wrong at one point and a nagging pain in my upper hamstring. More on that sometime soonish. I need to get my leg checked out.
Saturday – Walked one mile. Feeling very sore, so I thought I could use a mostly rest day.
Sunday – Ran 2 miles. Still very cold, but it wasn’t quite as windy. I really just wanted to see if a day of rest was helping my leg. It kind of helped. I wasn’t AS sore, but my leg was still in some pain.Ā
Monday – Level 2 of the 30-day Shred. It was so cold and I’m feeling like I may be coming down with a cold, so I opted for a cardio workout indoors. My leg felt good when I was doing side to side work, but anything that involved kicking forward was painful.
Goals:
I hit my goal of running at least 4 times. I’m going to continue that goal for next week.
More core workouts.
Take a good look at my food intake. Re-evaluate. (I may need to recommit to Weight Watchers. For real.)
Increase water intake. Drink at least 64 ounces each day.
How was your week?Ā
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Watch that hamstring – you don’t want to make it worse. I’m glad you’re loving the lunch time runs. Nice that you can fit those in.
wayyyyyy back in the day (high school cross country), I had hamstring issues. I guess since I’m old, they’re returning? š
Have you tried kt tape on the hamstring?
I haven’t. I’ll definitely look into it.
Good for you running through the cold weather! I was a wimp about it this weekend, but I was also nervous because it’s been icy, and that could be dangerous.
Soreness is always so tricky. It’s hard to know when to push through and when you really need to rest.
I hope you figure out what’s going on with your hamstring. I’m with Abbey, it’s hard to know when it’s just soreness and when it’s something serious.
Also, I say go with the Garmin time instead of the running app time. š It means you went further & faster, no shame in that!