91 days!!

Here's how my week shaped up:

Monday:
I had my weekly personal training appointment on Monday. I had been doing them on Wednesdays, but moved them to Mondays to fit with the training plan better. I told my trainer, Rey, that I always have to run after the training sessions, so in order to save my legs a bit he would tell me when to do lower weights and not strain myself too much.

It's a group training session and there was a new guy in the session. Poor guy made it all the way through the session, then puked at the very end. The session was by no means easy, but of all the sessions I've done it was the easiest. Hope the poor guy comes back and can tough it out again.

After the session was over I headed upstairs to do the 7 miles of running I needed to get in. It was the first time I had done training and running on the same day, so I was a bit worried about how my legs were going to hold up. To make sure didn't overt do it I ran .5 miles then would walk for about a minute and so on. Got all 7 miles done, but I sure was feeling it at the end.

Tuesday:
Day off!

Wednesday:
My training plan had me doing a speed workout on Wednesday but I had the day off from work, and decided to go on a pretty extreme hike instead. I figured it wasn't running but it would be a good workout and a good compromise. Oh my god. Maybe one of the stupidest decisions I have ever made. The uphill climb was torture. I kept going, albeit slowly, but I wasn't going to be the one keeping everyone from the top. We got maybe 4-4.5 miles up and I could feel the extremes muscle fatigue in my legs. Every part of my willpower wanted to keep going by my legs wouldn't let me. We turned around, they guys I was with we're so wonderful and supportive. We made it to the bottom and after all was said and done it really was a wonderfully fun day. Lots of laughs and fun times.


Thursday:
My training plan was to do 6 miles on Thursday, but I made the decision to rest my legs another day. I felt better after the hike than I expected but another day of rest was probably good.

Friday:
Day off!

Saturday:
Day off

Sunday:
Ugh, long run day. My plan had me down to do 12 miles today. It's so freaking stupid, I did 11. How ridiculous right? I couldn't push through for 1 more mile. Ugh, so mad at myself. On the positive side, I ran 11 miles. I feel like after each run I should be feeling better about is marathon, but I just end up feeling worse and more scared.

Tomorrow I start another week of training, with runs on Monday, Thursday and Saturday. Let's hope I start to feel a little more positive about the race this week.

Days till Marathon: 91
Total training miles: 251.85