Fitness this week:
Saturday – Run the Reservoir 5K race + 1.5 hour trail running “class”
Sunday – Rest
Monday – Chiro appointment (more about that soon)
Tuesday – PT stretches and rest
Wednesday – Short run
Thursday – 1 hour Unleashed OCF class
Friday – PT stretches and rest
I’m a little bit crazy, as you can tell by Saturday. My hip has really been bothering me, so I’ve been limiting my running. I could totally tell when I ran on Saturday, too. My endurance isn’t worth anything right now. I think I walked more of that race than I ran…but I did it and didn’t feel too bad afterwards. I’ll eventually have a race recap at some point. Tara caught the cold that I’ve finally gotten rid of and didn’t want to hang around (which I don’t blame her at all!) so we headed home. It was then I realized I could make the trail running class if I left right away, so I grabbed the address of the high school that we meet at, changed into my trail shoes and took off. Let me tell you, I felt like a joke.
The people in the class were all really fit people and even some elite racers, along with a second trainer. I COULD NOT keep up. I was so winded and kept ending up at the back of the pack the entire hour and a half class. Even if I was up to my fittest last year (in terms of running endurance), I couldn’t keep up with the pace they were running. We started at the high school to “warm up” by running through the woods, then up and down repeatedly through a ravine, then over next to the stadium where we went up and down a really steep hill for 5 minutes. Then we ran over to the bleachers where we proceeded to run up and down them the entire length of bleachers (on the bleachers, not steps). Some squats thrown in for good measure, then we took off behind the bleachers running down a hill into a clearing where we did some burpees. Then “sprinted” (yeah right) back up the hill we ran down a minute ago before we headed into the real woods where we’d be running.
Very steep terrain and not so much of a “trail” is what I recall after that. Up and down lots of hills (as you can see by all the squiggles on my Garmin picture). I was ready to quit about 15 minutes in, but I figured if I couldn’t keep up, I would just walk up and down the huge hill in the middle while they ran in and out of the woods. I was wheezing at that point, which I’ve never done and could have been cold-related. I did eventually suck it up and rejoin the group, but felt bad because anytime he stopped to regroup and do a head count, they would be doing push-ups or squats or burpees while they waited for me. I still had to do some, too, but they had to do a lot more because of the waiting so I felt really bad about that.
I ended up making it through, but I seriously overtaxed my hip and have been paying for it all week. It was feeling a little better mid-week, so I decided to do that short run on Wednesday to test it out because I have my first ever 10K on Sunday!! The run felt pretty good and the pain actually went mostly away while I was running. I’m nervous about Sunday due to the huge inclines, but I’m pretty sure even with a good amount of walking I can beat the time cut-off. I have one hour to get to the “last chance” point before I’ll have to get a ride back. I think it’s totally d0-able.
On another note, I have to admit I’ve been a really bad blogger friend. I’m so overwhelmed lately I haven’t been spending as much time online. I’m trying to reset myself basically. I’ve been working on my eating this week, which is going great. Next week I’ll be adding my strength training back in, possibly more running as well, too. I need to buckle down. I only have less than 2 months until Tough Mudder! So yeah…I haven’t been reading most blogs, definitely not commenting at all and not even bothering trying to write my own. If you’re still around to read, thanks for sticking with me. 🙂
Since I’ll be doing a good amount of this on Sunday, I thought this song was fitting for this week.
Running Up That Hill – Placebo
Don't blink. Just run. 
Reading about the class wore me out as if I was there doing it. lol 🙂 My friend asked me last night when was the last time I ran. ????? I have no idea. I need to get off my butt soon and get a run in.
I am totally relating to you about blogging and reading and commenting. I woke up feeling good this morning so I am using this little brief bit of mental energy to do more than just skim and move on. Who knows, I might even manage to work up the motivation to do a list post. Or I might just look at funny cat pictures the rest of the day. lol 🙂
It’s so easy to just get sucked in to funny cat pictures. 😉
I am proud that you stuck with it, and you shouldn’t feel guilty at all about not keeping up – YOU WERE OUT THERE and that’s all that matters!
I totally forgot to post about it this morning, but the girl who won the free entrance to a Spartan race didn’t find any close enough to her, so she let me pick another winner – and I picked you! I’ll write about it in my post tomorrow. Send me your email at mybizzykitchen@gmail.com and I’ll forward you the code.
Happy Friday!
Thanks 🙂
And thanks again for the free entry! Still so excited!!
Wow! You’re sure challenging yourself which is awesome. Keep up the good work and be careful!!!!! 🙂
Oh man you take it easy and listen to your body! (Ok stepping off Momma hen soapbox now!) Good job getting what you did do done and not back up to 100% I know the whole blogging/commenting all gets overwhelming at times. We’ll be here when you get ready to get caught up!
I haven’t been a very active blogger or blog reader this week either.
Hope things fall into place for you so you can get your training back on track because I know how excited you are to do Tough Mudder! Hang in there!
Amazing song! That running class sounds ridiculous, props for toughing it out 🙂 Good luck with your race!!!
Good luck on Sunday! I am really proud of you for doing the trail run-no matter what your pace was! You should feel proud of yourself!
I’m sorry – was everything you wrote about doing before the words “real woods” the warm up?!? That sounds awful and I’d have high tailed it right back to my car!
I understand about being the slowest and catching up to the group. That happens to me all of the time!
Great job, looks like you had a great week!