Training for a Belt Buckle

I'm trying to plan my plan so that I will finish one long race healthy this year and be able to get over the DNF/DNS hurdle.

My goal is to run 5 miles on Monday thru Thursday, 3 miles on Friday, then 7 miles on Saturday for a total of 30 miles this week.  Lots of stretching and rolling.  Think I will try and get to the chiropractor once this week and next to make sure my body is where I want it to be.

Somebody smack me around if I do too much cardio this week, please!?!

1 mile with the puppy this morning.

30 minutes swimming this afternoon followed my 30 minutes pool running.

After dinner (fish and salad) - Twilight and I are going to run 2 miles in the park.

Five miles around Wheeler Farm after work in 57:20.  I wore my FiveFingers.  If anyone has done those trails, they are not really packed dirt, but are gravel and twigs and such. After about 1.5 miles my feet kind of went numb so the rocks and gravel didn't hurt as much.  Around 4.5 miles the numbness went away and I felt every dang rock.

20 minutes of Yoga for Runners.

After dinner did a Circuit workout and a Core workout from the latest issue of Oxygen Magazine.

5 miles at 5:00 this morning in 58:30.  Did my route with 3 big uphills and then a long downhill.  I always enjoy the moment when each hill releases you from its grasp and things get easy again.  Walked Twilight for a mile afterwards and the concrete was making my feet tired.

My throat was hurting and I was feeling bad after work yesterday, so crawled in bed for the night and napped and read until bedtime.

Walked the puppy 1 mile before work.

Walked the puppy 1 mile after work.  My dad called just after I got home and when I mentioned I had just got back in from walking the dog, he remarked, "It's too windy to go out down here in Provo."  I snidely remarked back (my dad was being rude for some reason)...."I had her on a leash so could pull her back in if the wind blew her away." That seemed to quiet him down on his lecture mode.

My knees were really aching a lot at work. Didn't know if it was from being sick or from not working out for a couple of days or from taper hypochondria, so went out running tonight.  I did six slow, miserable, hard miles out and back. Didn't wear a watch, but the first three were into the headwind and it didn't get any less miserable and painful on the three with a tailwind - just no dirt in the eyes that way.  I just finished stretching and think I'll go to bed for the evening.

Ran 9 miles this morning. After all my problems with last night's workout, I decided to take it conservatively and ran 4 minutes, walked 1 minute. I was still under 12:30 mpm. The second half I felt much better than the first and ran it (net uphill) 5 minutes faster than the first half.  Last night I kept hawking up crap every half mile or so and having to spit.  Didn't have to spit at all this morning, so think I am almost recovered.

I need to clean up and head into the office with the puppy and will take a break in a few hours and walk her around Wheeler Farm for an additional 2 miles.