Monday -- April 2, 2007
Training: 63 minutes
Day Mileage: 9 miles
Weather: cold
Details: easy run today, legs felt tired from my race Sunday
Tuesday -- April 3, 2007
Training: day off
I am going to training camp on Thursday night over Easter. Only a 10-day training camp, but a training camp all the same. I can't miss too much school so that is why it is such a short one. Daytona Gym is sponsoring me to go so of course that support really gives me a nudge to go! I miss school for a week, so that just means I will have to stay on top of my studies in training camp. If I was younger, I would be a nerd. But once one is 25, nerdiness doesn't exist, then you're just smart and people are okay with that. Besides, the Universities here, well the people!!! in general, are SOOOO competitive, I am always like "relax, people!" hahaha.
Wednesday – April 4, 2007
Training: 45 minutes
Strength: abs
Day Mileage: 6 miles
Week Mileage: 15 miles
Thursday -- April 5, 2007
Training: 63 minutes
Details: easy continuous run with Valerie…I leave for Tenero today for training camp!!!
Friday -- April 6, 2007
Training: AM- 50 minutes, pace pick-up the last 20 minutes
PM- 30 minute-run, Josi's ab workout with the group
Strength: Josi's ab workout, 30 minutes
Day Mileage: 10.5 miles
Week Total: 34.5 miles
Weather: sunny and warm, perfect
Details: First day of camp…we got in really late last night so we took it easy on our runs. Tomorrow, we'll have our first workout.
Saturday -- April 7, 2007
Training: AM- workout
20 minutes warm up
6x2,000 meters, 3' jog recovery
7:25 down to 7:15
11 minutes cool down
PM- 20 minutes
Day Mileage: 14 miles
Week Total: 48.5 miles
Weather: perfect again…sunny and warm
Details: The point of the workout today was to stay "loose…" basically run a faster pace, but keep it under control…Now if I were a workout queen, I would have hammered the workout, but that wasn't the point…it was a workout geared towards the half marathon. Vivi and I ran it together and Selina jumped in to do 1,000s. We had a good workout together. Tonight we are going to eat yummy pizza and Gelatto ice cream!!!
Sunday .. April 8, 2007 Easter Sunday – Looong run.
Training: 1 hour 47 minutes, picking up pace at the end…
Strength: that took all my strength
Other: Sports massage from our massage therapist...it hurt, but it did my legs awful good J
Day Mileage: 15 miles
Week Total: 63.5 miles
Weather: wonderful again…sunny, breezy, and warm
Details: Ran with Vivi and Selina again. Of course we had a chaperone on a bike to make sure the pace was controlled. We ran a solid 15-miler today. I had some stomach cramps while I was running, so I didn't feel great, but I was still able to keep the pace while my stomach was tying itself in a knot. We ran in the sunshine the whole time so I enjoyed it!!! When I got back I ate some Jelly Belly jelly beans. They just arrived in Switzerland a couple months ago so I paid like 3 francs for a little dinky pack of them, but I enjoyed them to the fullest!
NEXT: April 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 – Feels good to be out of my slump...
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INDEX: Unfinished Business -- Former PA XC state champion Josi Lauber's post-collegiate adventure