After yesterday's run I was RUINED. I wrote that blog post from the comp lab but I was dying inside. I was dead tired and felt SUPER run down, my body ACHED and I was really cold for some reason. I went to class but had to bail 40 minutes in (at least I signed the attendance!). I came home and slept for maybe an hour and a half, got up and moped around for a while, feeling like I was going to get a cold. I pounded some vitamin C and some green tea and just drank a bunch of water and chilled out. OK, I also binged HARD on food. :) Whatever, so today I don't eat, big deal. :) just kiddin'. I think my body just wasn't ready for that HARD of a workout, that was like a race pace workout for an hour, 2/3 of what I hope to do on Sunday, so much for saving myself! It DID give me a lot of confidence though in terms of where my fitness is in general and what I may be able to pull off at this race. I hear it's a flat course, as was Ottawa when I went 1:27:47 two years ago, so I'm thinking I can go fast. Two years ago! Wow, I've been into this stuff for a while now! Regardless of the result I'm excited to get to Canberra and have fun, I look forward to cheering Julia and Jared on in their races!
I got a good 9.5 hours sleep last night and am feeling much better this morning. I don't know why I hadn't thought of this before but I looked up the race week for someone that was training for a half marathon (as my plan is for a full marathon so the volume is much higher) and apparently I'm supposed to run no more than about 7 - 8k this week, I did 14k yesterday. OH well, I'll back off the rest of the week and let my body absorb all the training I've been doing. I CAN'T WAIT TO RACE!!!
Julia and I are also looking at our travel plans for the break in about 8 weeks. We're deciding whether it'll be better to fly everywhere (flights are pretty darn cheap) or take the train (which would still include 2 flights)
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