Training: Week 2!

Our second week of training looked like this:

Monday: 3 easy miles with hills

Tuesday: 3 yassos + 1-2 mi WU/CD

Wednesday: Rest

Thursday: 3 mile tempo run + 1-2 mi WU/CD 

Friday: 45 min cross training 

Saturday: 6 miles long

Sunday: Rest or 45 minutes cross train

(for definitions of the runs, see last week's post!)

This week was another good week of training. I forgot to mention last week that on Wednesdays I meet with a Personal Trainer at the gym I belong to and we have a half hour session. So I decided from the beginning that unless my schedule gets screwed up Sunday would be my rest day, since I will be working out for 6 straight days during the week. 

This week my schedule got a little switched up because of late night meetings and some icy road conditions, so I ended up doing 45 minutes of cross training on Thursday and completing my tempo run on Friday. 

Saturday we had our second team run. We met again in Waltham at the Children's Hospital satellite location. We didn't have a clinic this week, but we still went through the whole warm up routine together. This week when our coaches asked if anyone wanted to give a dedication or share why they were running for Children's I decided to share my story. I jokingly told everyone that I was sharing my story, predominately because I was a hazard on the road, not being able to see what was on my left hand side. It was nice to share with everyone my personal connection to Children's and to tell them that despite my not being a child anymore, that I was still being treated at Children's to this day. 

When we headed out for our run, I could tell everyone had listened to what I had to say, because when they passed me they told me they were on my left so I knew they were coming (it's nice not to have someone all of a sudden pop out from next to you).  

Our run today was blessed with good weather again. Pretty much the same conditions as last week. I have been listening to the Serial podcasts during my long runs and I'm pretty addicted. I know I'm late jumping on the Serial bandwagon, but if you haven't listened to them yet, you definitely should. It's nice to listen to something other than music sometimes, especially when you're not pushing yourself for speed. I told Sarah, my coach, about the podcasts and she said she was going to start listening too!

One of the cool things about running with the team is that they put water stops out along the course. Basically it's just a milk crate with water, gatorade, and cups in it, but it's nice to know you don't have to carry water with you on the long runs. Plus everyone generally stops at them for 2 minutes or so and chats with each other before they move on. 

Over all the run went well. My knee has been bothering me for some time and today I tried the kinesiology tape as opposed to the brace I had been wearing. It doesn't provide as much support I my knee needs at the moment, but it'll definitely be good to wear during the week for extra support. I've been using the KT Tape brand. You can check them out here: http://www.kttape.com. It's a little expensive, but if you put it on correctly you can wear it for up to 3 days. Hopefully my knee will heal up quickly though!

This week I completed 22.3 out of a possible 23 miles.