Monday – May 7, 2007
Training: 55 minutes, hilly
Day Mileage: 7.5 miles
Week Total: 7.5 miles
Details: Easy run today. Loong day. Left at 8 this morning and just got back at 10:00 pm… Busy bee.
Tuesday – May 8, 2007
Training: 20 minutes warm up, 6x1,000 with 90 sec rest, 15 minutes cool down
Strength: ABC drills and strides
Day Mileage: 9.5 miles
Week Total: 17 miles
Weather: RAINY AND COOL!
Details: Ran the workout with some young, teenage boys…hey, they do make good training partners!
Wednesday – May 9, 2007
Training: 50 minutes
Day Mileage: 7 miles
Week Total: 24 miles
Details: Taking it easy for my 10-miler on Sunday.
Thursday– May 10, 2007
Training: 50 minutes
Strength: abc drills
Day Mileage: 7 miles
Week Total: 31 miles
Friday – May 11, 2007
Training: 25 minutes
Strength: abs
Day Mileage: 3 miles
Week Total: 34 miles
Weather: hot!
Details:
Saturday– May 12, 2007
Training: 3 mile warm up, 10 mile race, 0 cool down…bad Josi!
Strength: the HILLY course!!!
Day Mileage: 13 miles
Week Total: 47 miles
Weather: hot! Even hotter for a 10-mile race
Details: I am struggling with the pollen!!! Today I could NOT breath at all. I am taking Singulair, but it is NOT working. I was reading about this really good marathoner in Germany…She won Euros or something…anyway, she says she just doesn't race in the summer!!! I don't know about that one! Anyway, I am going to some sort of specialist to see what's going on and to see what I can do about it. Of course it hasn't rained so the pollen is just killer! Ah well, I placed 15th overall (24,000 people ran…not all in the 10-miler) so it didn't go terribly…but it also didn't go as well as I would have liked it to. Patience, patience…. Haven't I been saying that for like 2 years now??? PATIENCE SUCKS, but ya gotta' have it for this sport!!! So yeah, am still waiting on that breakthrough year!!!
Sunday– May 13, 2007
Training: off day because I am racing a 10k on the track on Thursday!
Monday – May 14, 2007
Training: 50
Day Mileage: 7 miles
Week Total: 7 miles
Tuesday – May 15, 2007
Training: 50
Strength: 10x100 meters
Day Mileage: 7 miles
Week Total: 14 miles
Details: 10k race prepping for Thursday.
Wednesday– May 16, 2007
Training: 40
Strength: light ab work
Day Mileage: 6 miles
Week Total: 20 miles
Details: I ran my last 10k on the track about 2 years ago, so we'll see!!!
Thursday -- May 17, 2007
Training: 20 am, 20 warm up, 10k race, 15 cool down
Day Mileage: 13 miles
Week Total: 33 miles
Weather: RAINY, COLD!!!
Details: I ended up running almost the whole 10k alone in the cold rain… Not the greatest time, but hey, you can't run a PR the first 10k out of the season. Yeah, weird, our track season just started!!!
Friday-- May 18, 2007
Training: 60 minutes
Day Mileage: 8.5 miles
Week Total: 41.5
Details: My legs felt good even though I only got 6 hours of sleep last night. The 10k was late and then I had to get up early for school.
Saturday .. May 19, 2007
Training: 60
Strength: abs
Day Mileage: 9.5 miles
Week Total: 51 miles
Weather: warm, sunny
Sunday .. May 20, 2007
Training: 110 mins
Strength: hilly
Day Mileage: 15 miles
Week Total: 66 miles
Weather: gorgeous, sunny, HOT with a slight breeze
Details: Felt good during the run…but let's just say I slept well after the run! 9 hours straight through!! Wait no, I think I got up to pee because I drank shit tons after the run…not sure what shit tons is, but it sounds like A LOT. It was really hot, upper 70s so I wanted to make sure I drank enough!!!
Another ramble…
NEED….Motivation…CONSANT motivation….and lots of it….lots of constant motivation. Since I've been out of college, I have had to do a lot of the training on my own… Compared to college life, the Swiss distance runner's life can get pretty lonely! There are a lot of fast women here, (hey, fast as in running, people), but a lot of them just don't really train together that much. Big barriers are of course the Alps…not the fact that you can't get over them, but the fact that one lives on this side of this mountain, another over this mountain and the runners are all spread out. The national team isn't all concentrated in one area, so you pretty much run with the distance runners you can get….or even with the middle distance people! And if you DO want to run with some of these women who DO live in the vicinity, you are always the one who has to make an effort to run with them. It's not very common for you to get a call and someone asks you to go on a run with them, but you have to make the effort yourself… You have to make the calls and travel to wherever to run with someone because it is rare that someone does that…I do it just because I'd rather run with someone than run alone so I will go to Bern or stay in Bern after school is out to run with someone. I don't mind it, but I realized that it is kind of bizarre that some people don't make the effort to ask to go on a run. The girls I work out with don't live here or else we'd definitely go on more runs together. They just come to town for the workouts on Wednesdays and Saturdays, which is cool because at least then I have workout partners! So they are not an option for a continuous run…My normal training partners have been out of commission for a WHILE due to injuries. I am lucky that my boyfriend, Ueli, (14:16 PR 5k) runs so I can do my long runs with him and his coach!
So anyway, I was talking about motivation…Of course it is EASY to go out and run alone when it is sunny and warm and you have all the energy in the world, but on those days where you are just tired and just want to sit on your butt you need to be MOTIVATED. But how do you just "get" motivated…If I had the choice (and lots of money), I would hire some hardcore dude or gal to sit in my room and if I didn't feel like running, they'd start yelling things like "get off of your butt, don't you want to get better…don't you want to get fast…you should be happy you CAN even run…be thankful for your health, now get your ars out there." And so on…. Then it would be no problem. But alas, I neither have I the time to listen nor the time to hire someone…so I guess I'm stuck at motivating myself on those hard days to go on runs… It's crazy, because if I couldn't run, I would go NUTS…but when I can run every single day, or have the ability to, there are days where I just "don't feel like it." These days don't come often, but when they do I start asking myself if I want to get serious, I ask myself do I really have what it takes….…Actually, it's funny…Out of maybe the 100 times or so I haven't felt like running, I probably actually only skipped out on 1 run so I somehow pinch myself in the butt and get myself out there anyway! But for that 1 time, I feel awfully guilty for weeks. Hahahaha. A recovery day is not the same thing as skipping out….it's on a day where you actually SHOULD run, but don't. If you plan a recovery day in advance, then that's cool…but if you wake up on a whatever morning and decided you're "not feelin' it," then you gotta' get yerrr ars out there and run because you'll be glad you did!
I don't have a point to this ramble…that is why it is a ramble…
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