Sock tans

My legs are SO. SORE. It hurt to walk yesterday. I still walk painfully today, though I feel a little better than yesterday. Not sure if I'll be running today. I'm a little surprised it took so much out of me, but I hear downhill running is hard on your muscles.

My uncles are doing the St. George marathon and invited me to run it with them. I've decided to sign up :) 

Any marathon training tips would be appreciated!

I think the highest I'll go is 70 miles a week and 21-22 miles as my longest run leading up to the marathon. I plan to start training with one speed/tempo workout a week and one long run. I plan to start tapering 3 weeks before the marathon as per a quick google search of how to taper for a marathon. I put my goal as 3:55 because I have no idea how fast I can run a marathon- this will be my first one.

I ended up doing a small loop today. Once I got started it wasn't that bad, but I was running really slow. 9:30 average. 

3 miles easy. Legs are still sore but significantly better than yesterday. I'm hoping that by this weekend they'll feel good enough to run Wasatch extended loop one last time before moving on Sunday.

Later I did another mile at 7:33 with Millie and Tessa around our circle. Millie broke off halfway through and grabbed a scooter lol

My legs felt really heavy today. Still sore but not terribly so.

8:43 average.

I was feeling up for some 400s today so I went to the East High track and said nevermind. High schoolers were covering the home stretch of the track. So I made a loop instead continuing down to 1300 E. 

I make the big move on Sunday. I sent some of my stuff over there with my dad this evening (my younger sisters wanted a play date with my cousin- my aunt, uncle, and cousin who live in Georgia are staying with my grandparents this week hence why I don't move in until Sunday). 

I'll be helping my grandma take care of my grandpa. He had a stroke a couple years ago. He's fallen a couple of times and my grandma was unable to lift him so she's had to call 911. Hopefully with me there, there won't be a need to call 911. This is also to allow my parents to remodel the basement- can't exactly do that while I'm living down there. To get me back and used to paying rent again now that my medical bills are paid off, as a step towards living on my own again I'll be essentially paying rent to my grandparents, who will put the money in a savings account for me to access later when I'm ready to move out or buy a new car or whatever my next step in life is. They're very kind to help me out.  

This is the first week I've run every day since the last week of July 2020. First week of marathon training down, 25 weeks to go.

I'm starting out easy- I don't want to go get myself injured. So I'm going to run 2 weeks around 25 miles a week, then start building mileage from there.

I found out my old neighbor/high school teammate Natalie Shields Connolly will be running the St. George marathon as well! A couple of my friends are running the Deseret News Marathon on July 24 and one of my college teammates Ashley is running the virtual Ogden marathon the week of May 9-May 16. So I have a couple of people to run with every so often if I want to :)