Just a quick afternoon post to talk about my current training.<\/p>\n
This weekend was a rest weekend, as I was out of town for a friend’s wedding.\u00a0 There was lots of dancing, but that was offset by poor eating and many drinks.\u00a0 It was fun though, and definitely worthwhile to take the weekend “off.”<\/p>\n
My long runs for marathon training have been going well.\u00a0 Slower than I’d like, but I keep reminding myself that I’m not doing this race for time, I’m doing it for the distance.\u00a0 I am also hoping that all of the long runs will help me during the two half marathons I’m running this fall, but I’m not committed to any particular time.<\/p>\n
October is mostly a month of racing, so I won’t be picking up the long training runs again until November.\u00a0 Of course, one of those long runs is a metric marathon and one is a half marathon, so I will still be putting miles on my legs.<\/p>\n
Midweek training is also going pretty well, though I need to make a change somewhere.\u00a0 Right now, I’m running on Tuesday and Thursday mornings (at 4:30 am!), lifting on Monday and Wednesday morning, and Friday is either a run or weights, depending on how I feel. I clearly need to add some other cross-training into the mix, but it’s coming down to time and energy at this point.\u00a0 I might stick my bike back into the trainer for a while, since I won’t be doing weekend bike rides the day before a race.\u00a0 Another option is to pick up one of my cardio dvds and do that once or twice a week.<\/p>\n
Finding a balance is tough, but I know it will be worth it in the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Just a quick afternoon post to talk about my current training. This weekend was a rest weekend, as I was out of town for a friend’s wedding.\u00a0 There was lots of dancing, but that was offset by poor eating and many drinks.\u00a0 It was fun though, and definitely worthwhile to take the weekend “off.” My […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n