Marathon Training - Week 1

Marathon training has commenced!!  YIKES!!  I can't believe I am going to do this.  I just hope I'm not getting into something I cannot do.

The first day was easy.  For me Sundays are my cross training days.  Sunday is the Lord's day and as a believer, I am in church faithfully every Sunday.  As a result, trying to do a long runs on that day is not possible.  My long runs are Saturdays.

I overslept on Sunday so I decided to wait and do it in the evening.  It was later then normal when I got home due to our Quarterly Business Meeting.  I still did my workout.  I did 1k on my treadmill and then a 15 minutes core workout.  It might have been a short core workout but I felt it for a couple days!

Monday I worked late and didn't get home until after 7.  It was cold and it was raining and I was hungry.  It was all things that normally keep me in, but out the door I went and did a 3k run!

Tuesday I made sure to leave work on time.  Not only did I need to do a 5k run, but I was trying to get my nephew out for a run as I'm taking him on the youth run for the bluenose in a little over 2 weeks.  It was raining and it was raining hard.  Within just a couple of minutes I was soaked to the skin.  As I was running past Sobeys (local grocery store) there was a bright flash followed by thunder.  I kept going. I told myself if it did it again, I would turn back.  I begin to wonder as it started to rain harder if I was nuts.  I did it though.  I got a 5k run in.   I was a drowned rat and soaked to the skin.  It was awesome!

Wednesday is another cross training day.  Between work and our mid-week service at church its another day where cross training is easier.  I walked for about 3k after work.  Big mistake.  I was in work shoes.  My feet ached for days and I have a blister on the bottom of my big toe on my left foot.   I didn't do anything else.  Can you really count walking as cross training.

Thursday was to be a 3k run.  I went out after work to get a friend's wedding gift and a new dress for the wedding.  I didn't run when I got home.

Friday (for the first week only) was to be a cross training day.  It was a long work day with JOY Club in the evening.  (A kids club I work in at my church.)  I should have done it when I got home.  I didn't.

Saturday - long run day.  I should have done 10k today.  I didn't.  I slept in.  I didn't get up until after 11.  I had no time after that as I needed to get ready for my friend's wedding.  It's after 9pm now and I haven't done it.  I enjoyed the wedding.  It was great, but I should have gotten up early enough to run.

I told myself from the start I needed to stay dedicated to what I was doing.  For the first 3 days I did.  I followed the schedule and followed my diet and watched what I ate.  It went down hill after Wednesday.  The first week didn't go well.  I hope the second goes better.

I'm looking at my training schedule and Tuesdays are going to be hard.  How I"m supposed to run over 10k after working all day, I'm not sure.  I need to motivate myself better somehow.  I still have JOY Club for another 4 weeks.  (Our closing is June 2 and after that Friday's are free in the evening.)  How I am going to get a run in that night, which will usually be 6k, I don't know.  I need to get myself up early enough to go in the morning before work, but I struggle to get up in the morning on time for work as it is.  

I hope I can do this. I hope I stick to the plan better for Week 2 then this week.  Given the weather, I will have plenty of experience of running in the rain this week!  I just hope shoes can dry fast enough between runs!