It has been about a month since I have posted a training blog. With races in Little Rock & Dallas over the past few weeks, I have taken off a few weeks to ward off an injury that has arisen in my foot/Achilles area. This week I was back to the grind stone. Next race up is a fun one. It is the 2nd Annual Star Wars Half Marathon Weekend on April 22-23. I am doing the Dark Side Challenge, so I will be doing the 10K on Saturday morning and the Half Marathon on Sunday morning.
Here was this past week’s training.
Monday (3/27): Over my rest weeks that I mentioned above I started back with some weight training. Jason and I went to the gym at lunch and did a 30 minutes arms workout. Later in the evening, I went up to Fleet Feet Summerville and rejoined them for their weekly 6:30 Monday RunDay! I ran 3 miles with them at a pace of 8:22. It was National Whiskey Night, which they had for a toast, but since I do not drink, I went with the NUUN Lemon Lime Energy Drink
Tuesday (3/28): At lunch Jason & I ran 3 miles at lunch around downtown.
Wednesday (3/29): I did not workout on Wednesday. I went to Columbia for the Annual Telehealth Summit.
Thursday (3/30): While in Columbia, I got up before the conference and ran with Kevin & Marty around Columbia for 3.5 miles. We ran around the Governor’s Mansion & State Capital.
Friday (3/31): No Workout.
Saturday (4/1): On Saturday we changed up things. Because of the Flowertown Festival in Summerville and the Cooper River Bridge Run covering Mt. Pleasant & Charleston, we decided to go out to Folly Beach to run. I met up with EMack, Weston, & Tommy and we ran 8.2 miles around Folly Beach at a 9:44 pace. It was a beautiful day and a beautiful run.
2017 Yearly Running Goal: 1000 Miles
Weekly Mileage: 16.92 Miles
2017 Total Miles: 195.23 Miles
April 2017 Mileage: 7.70
March 2017 Mileage: 51.26
February 2017 Mileage: 73.33
January 2017 Mileage: 70.64
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You know I bet it was hard to find a place to run on Saturday with Flowertown and the Bridge Run. That pretty much rules out all the great places to run, honestly, except Folly Beach and the West Ashley Greenway. Glad you guys got some miles in at Folly (before it gets insanely crowded in a month or so). Glad you could run in Columbia too, change of scenery is always a fun one.
I hope your foot issues are worked out. I got a sports massage for mine and I truly believe that did the trick. It’s still a little nagging so I have to ice/heat/NSAID cream it some but that’s tendonitis for ya…
Yep the weekend festivities in our area consumed most of our favorite running spots! True also that we woon’t be able to make it to Folly in the next few months! 😀 Foot has been aggravating me since the Little Rock Half. Think I am going to get it checked out just to make sure everything is good.
I don’t blame you. I got mine X-rayed about a week after I got hurt to make sure nothing was broken (most important thing). Doctor said it was tendonitis but I honestly feel like that’s worse than a stress fracture because you never know how long it’ll take to heal! Another thing that helped was going to Carolyn at the foot store, I got a special insert made that I’m using in my shoe now. It’s just hard to get there because it’s way out in North Mt. Pleasant… I had to take off work to go there, seriously.