Monday – October 1, 2007
Training: 60 minutes
Day Mileage: 8.5 miles
Week Mileage: 8.5 miles
Details: My two year anniversary of OFFICIALY living in Switzerland. October 1st, 2005 was when I moved into my studio in Thun. Has it really been 2 years???????? Time flies! A lot has happened the past 2 years. LOTS of ups and downs as far as training and racing are concerned.
Tuesday – October 2, 2007
Training: 60 minutes
Day Mileage: 8.5 miles
Week Mileage: 17 miles
Details: will. rant. soon.
Wednesday – October 3, 2007
Training: 20 warm up, 30 minute tempo run, 10 minute cool down
Day Mileage: 9 miles
Week Mileage: 26 miles
Thursday – October 4, 2007
Training: 60 minutes
Day Mileage: 8.5 miles
Week Mileage: 34.5
Details: Felt gooood.
Friday – October 5, 2007
Training: 55 minutes
Day Mileage: 7 miles
Week Mileage: 41.5 miles
Details: didn't feel gooood.
Saturday – October 6, 2007
Training: 60 minutes
Day Mileage: 8.5 miles
Week Mileage: 50 miles
Details: Ran with the master himself for half an hour.
Sunday – October 7, 2007-SICK
So the poor baby got sick on Saturday and was throwing up all night…Then it was my turn. I was SUPPOSED to be watching Chrigu run the marathon in Köln today…instead, I was sick in bed feeling pukey with a temperature! Booo.
Monday – October 6, 2008
Sick. Puked last night. Puked LOTS last night. Fever.
Tuesday – October 9, 2008
Queasy and nauseous.
Wednesday – October 10, 2008
Training: 43 minutes
Day Mileage: 5.5 miles
Details: 5.5 Didn't feel queasy, but legs felt a bit weak.
First day back after puking and not really being able to eat for 3 days. But I wasn't the only one "it" took. The stomach virus got the mom, the dad, the sister of the mom, and it took me.
Thursday – October 11, 2008
Training: 55 minutes, felt good again
Day Mileage: 7.5 miles
Details: Felt better today. The legs are still a bit weak, but other than that, I feel fine.
Friday – October 12, 2008
Training: 60 minutes
Day Mileage: 8.5 miles
The Deets: Back to normal again.
Saturday – October 13, 2008
Training: 30 minutes
Day Mileage: 4 miles
Details: Pre-race preparation. Some strides and ABC drills etc…
Sunday – October 14, 2008
Training: RACED. 15 warm up, 15k, mountain run (for me) UP AND DOWN AND UP AND DOWN, 5 minute cool down.
Day Mileage: 10 miles
Details: Well, if there's one thing I learned, it's that I am not made for mountain running. The up is bad, but the down-hill running is WORSE. My shins were killing me!!! And my joints, and my back, and and and. My team finished second though (it was a relay race). I had to run 15k and the other two had to run about 10k.
It's been a while….
I KNOOOW, I have really been suckin' it up with keeping this blog up, but I have had A LOT to do! I really keep myself busy, maybe TOO busy so I am trying to re-organize, re-situate myself in my life! I am STILL in the process of moving (so I have to clean my last apartment up too), I am studying in a really difficult program at the University of Bern as well as obtaining my Swiss teaching certification (which, by the way, requires a master's degree if you plan on teaching anyone in high school or above), I'm still working with my little kids (English group), I am still translating (free lance), I am still TRAINING!!!!!!....and, and, and…So again, I am really sorry, but I will try to make it my goal to do a better job keeping up with this thing once I am finally caught up to October 30th!!!!
So, what have I learned since I last wrote a long rant…
Let me think…
Okay, so one thing I learned about myself is that I can't run in the summer! I can't! I can't breathe and that's all there is to it. I went to the TOP sports Doc here in Switzerland (who works with the Olympic team) and I don't think there is any medication I can take or any inhaler I can inhale that would improve my problem in the summer….SOOOO, I've decided to make the fall and winter my "main" season instead of the summer…That is until I find a solution (I am still working on that one)… So, that means that I am in my main season now…I've decided… I will take one example of how I learned this…So, I run a 10k road race at the end of the summer…it's hot, it's in the middle of a bunch of grassy fields and I run a terrible time of about, I dunno, 40 minutes!!! I THEN run a hilly half marathon, and run just about as fast for DOUBLE the distance…So yes, road race season, here I am hear me roar….!!!!! I am actually writing this on October 30th (yaaay, tomorrow is Halloween) so I am writing this from the perspective I have now. Okay. Done with that.
The second thing I've learned is that I am motivated yet again!!! I am sure you have all been dragged into my hole with me because I know when I'm not motivated, I can be very un-motivating…BUT, I am back yet again with my motivational spiel. :-) I've decided that I STILL have the potential in me that I always thought I've had, but I am not being given the opportunity to show it…I know what you want to say, Josi, you are in control of your own destiny blah blah, yes, I am in control of it… However, I am coach-searching so that way I can actually train on a schedule, because like I've mentioned, JOSI NEEDS STRUCTURE!!! I can't just go out and run for as long as I feel like. I need a plan that says, Josi, today run 80 minutes…and then if I feel tired after 50, I think "C'mon Josi, just get through it" and then actually run the full 80 mins instead of the 50 where I was still feeling good… So, just wait. I know, it has been a long 2 years of waiting around for me to show you what I got…BUT, I have a feeling that there is a lot more in me. I'm not saying I am going to break any world records or that I am going to the Olympics next year, I am more telling MYSELF, Josi, you got more in you than you think you do so START TRAINING!!!!!!! So I guess this is more a motivational thing for me….so sorry for writing my brains out on paper…or rather computer screen, but this is what I do, I bat things around until I feel good…..so have a good day, to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness and I'm sure I'll be back on some sort of rant very soon…..
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