Monday – November 12, 2007
Training: 64 minutesExtras: ab workout, ouch! But not a triple ouch like last week.
Day Mileage: 9 miles
Week Total: 9 miles
Details: I forgot my watch once again so I had to do my loop! Maybe that's why I like the 10k so much, I never get sick of running the same ol' loops over and over again!
Tuesday – November 13, 2007
Training: 16 warm up, 10-5-3 minute, 3-5-10 minute fartlek, 12 cool downDay Mileage: 9 miles
Week Total: 18 miles
Details: Tough workout…Especially because I did it on my own!
Wednesday .. November 14, 2007
Training: 65 minutesExtras: Ab workout, ouch!
Day Mileage: 9 miles
Week Total: 27 miles
Details: I actually only wanted to go 50 minutes today, but then got dragged along because my boyfriend wanted to run more, so I came along!
Thursday – November 15, 2007
Training: 20 minutesDay Mileage: 3 miles
Week Total: 30 miles
Details: Took it easy…Because I fell within the first 10 minutes!!!!!!! I hurt my hip and decided to turn back…SEE???? I jinxed myself last week, I said I've never fallen while running, and BAM, Josi goes down! I kinda' laughed when I fell, looked around to see if anyone saw, then got up and started running a bit crippled for a bit…¨
Friday – November 16, 2007
Training: 30 minutesDay Mileage: 4 miles
Week Total: 34 miles
Details: Getting ready for my race tomorrow. Road race and it's going to be about 30!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BRRRRRRRR! By the way, the hip felt OKAY. A bit blue, but fine…
Saturday – November 17, 2007
Training: 13 degrees at race time…shiver, shiver… 22 mins warm up, 6k road race, 5 min. cool down since I was freeeezing!!!!!Day Mileage: 7.5 miles
Week Total: 41.5 miles
Details: brrrrrrr!!!!
Sunday – November 18, 2007
Training: 65 minsDay Mileage: 9 miles
Week Total: 50.5 miles
Details: Road races are hard on the legs and feet!
Monday – November 19, 2007
Training: 63 minutesDay Mileage: 9 miles
Week Total: 9 miles
Details: Ab work today! Feel the burrrn!
Tuesday – November 20, 2007
Training: 58 minutesDay Mileage: 8 miles
Week Total: 17
Wednesday – November 21, 2007
Training: 15 min warm up, 5x1,000m, 90 second recovery, 20 cool downDay Mileage: 8 miles
Week Total: 25 miles
Details: felt dead today. hard week in school.
Thursday – November 22, 2007
Training: 60 minutesDay Mileage: 8.5 miles
Week Total: 33.5 miles
Details: took it easy today.
Friday – November 23, 2007
Training: 45 minutes race prepDay Mileage: 6 miles
Week Total: 39.5 miles
Details: ab work and drills
Saturday – November 24, 2007
Training: 22 warm up, 7.8 km race, 20 cool downDay Mileage: 10 miles
Week Total: 49.5 miles
Details: my legs are stuck in slow, distance mode!!! race went okay though.
Sunday – November 25, 2007
Training: 80 minutesDay Mileage: 10.5 miles
Week Total: 60 miles
Details: Reeeeeally hilly run today!!!
Monday – November 26, 2007
Training: 70 minutes, core strengthDay Mileage: 10 miles
Week Total: 10 miles
Details: I ran into one of my friends on my run today so I ended up running with her for a bit so I ran more than planned. No prob. Though, it was fun!
Tuesday – November 27, 2007
Training: 50 minutesDay Mileage: 7 miles
Week Total: 17 miles
Details: ran along the lake today with Ueli.
Wednesday – November 28, 2007
Training: 20 min. warm up, 45 minute mountain run, 20 cool downDay Mileage: 10 miles
Week Total: 27 miles
Details: hardest.run.ever.
Thursday – November 29, 2007
Training: 30 mins.Day Mileage: eeaaasy day.
Week Total: 31 miles
Details: legs dead from the mountain run and almost fell asleep because today was a loooong day!!!!!
Friday – November 30, 2007
Training: 60 minutesDay Mileage: 8.5 miles
Week Total: 39.5 miles
Details: Student-taught today, was pretty tired when I got home!
Saturday – December 1, 2007
Training: 30 minute warm up, 10x2 min fartlek in some muddy, grassy field, 20 cool downDay Mileage: 10 miles
Week Total: 49.5 miles
Details: holy crap do my legs hurt!
Sunday – December 2, 2007
Training: 80 minutesDay Mileage: 10???
Week Total: 59.5
Details: My legs were KILLIN' me today and we ran on a hilly route so I was strugglin'!
Back on track….
I'm back into the swing of things and I'm feeling pretty good. I've had a lot of stuff to do for school lately, but I've been hangin' in there and have been able to get everything in! I have some final papers to turn in soon and a final exam, but am still chuggin' along nicely. I just always have to make sure I use every minute possible to get some work done! I always have my nose in a book or in some journal or am staring at my lap top with my fingers racing… I haven't hit any really high mileage, but I'm happy to even hit 60 at the moment because of school, work, and running. The semester has been pretty crazy and from the looks of it, it's only going to get busier! But hey, that's what I signed up for! The thing is that I am getting my teaching degree the same time as my master's, here in Switzerland you have to have a special degree to teach, but then of course, in Switzerland, teachers make as much as doctors do in the States and are much more respected, as they should be! So anyway, you also can't really do anything with a bachelor's degree over here either so I guess I'm going in the right direction! Student teaching just started up as well, but luckily, I can do most of my student teaching when I have vacation from the University of Berne because we have off from Christmas up until Feb. 18th, so my vacation will be filled with teaching high-school aged students! :-)
Anyway, organizing everything so I'm even able to train is important to me, but sometimes difficult! But, my big bro always says, do it right or don't do it at all, so that's what I'm going to try to do better! I want to really include all the elements into my training that are necessary. I still go to the gym every Monday and Friday so at least I am getting the strength training in… But I have to do a lot more for my feet as a future marathoner should! I have to do all those little exercises to strengthen my arches and the bottom of my feet… It's really weird to do, but the professional marathoners get it in and always tell me how important it is!
Oh yeah, the biggest problem I had about 3 months ago for 2 months long is the fact that I had sleeping problems. I don't know what the hell was going on! I just could not sleep! I would fall asleep fine, but then wake up in the middle of the night and couldn't go back to sleep. When it first started I figured it was a full moon or something, because I can never sleep a couple days before a full moon… But then it stretched out over weeks and I knew it wasn't that, but something else… Anyway, so I went to the doctor and got some sort of organic spray because he didn't want to give me sleeping pills… But that only helped some of the time… Anyway, now I'm back on track with sleeping AND training. It was really rough to get out and run a good pace when I would almost fall asleep on the train on the way back from school to training! I can't function without enough sleep anyway so I had a rough time. Looking back on it, I guess it was that I had a bunch of presentations going on at school, but I wasn't nervous for them! Or maybe it was because I was thinking about school AND moving… Could be it, have no idea, but it was really weird. It's good to be sleeping about 9 hours a night again!
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