My marathon training has officially begun!
I have officially turned my focus from the Augusta 1/2 Ironman to running. Running running running!
If you are not familiar, I am training for the Miami ING Marathon at the end of January 2012, almost 18 weeks from now and I have a sponsor! Girlz N Gear, an amazing workout gear company, has sponsored my race and first of all, I want to do them proud! But second of all, everyone should go over there and love on them because of their faith and support for MIDPACK America! aka ME. (Girlz N Gear on Facebook and Twitter here.) They love fitness bloggers and tweeters.
Training
So how did it go? This week’s training run was 8 miles, which I ran yesterday in 1 hour 26 minutes, average pace of 10:45. Yes I wish that was faster, and it will get faster. But for now I have some work to do in the form of strength training, speedwork and tempo runs to make that faster. And lots and lots of running in between.
The run was great, it was only (finally!) 60 degrees out and breezy and beautiful. The only bad thing is that I ran myself into a migraine (again) which is what seems to be my thing lately. It set me back in the afternoon for quite a while. Dehydration? Perhaps.
Anyways. Totally buckling down here now that the beginning of the year craziness is dying down a little.
And I have a plan.
It consists of the following:
- Weight training
- Consistent runs/crosstraining 5 days
- EATING WELL
I am starting back with a personal trainer for the weight training and will add one more day for total of two days. I am mixing my run plan in with swim and bike crosstraining (I do have two triathlons left this year, one olympic and one sprint.)
And I am laminating little messages to hang all around my house to remind myself of WHY I SHOULD NOT EAT CRAP.
My biggest downfall of all.
Back to menu planning and shopping the week in advance. Tonight is homemade whole wheat pizza with turkey meatballs for dinner. I’m not really going to be calorie counting so much as trying more for portion control and lots of small meals and paying attention to content.
RECOVERING
I am finally recovered after the Half Ironman but that thing threw my body all out of whack.
I have got to do my research on this and do a post actually on the things that happen during recovery by the way, and meantime can someone tell me WHY I GAIN AN UNGODLY AMOUNT OF WEIGHT AFTER EVERY TRIATHLON?
It just came off yesterday. But it was 5 whole pounds. It took me until Thursday to get UN-tired from Sunday’s race, my hormones were all a mess all week and I was bloated beyond belief. I wore my yoga pants like it was my uniform. (Well they sort of are, but I’d rather wear them out of choice than necessity!)
Finally, I am back to normal.
I have one official training run down and we are OFF! A vlog next Monday including danceout.
Have a great day!
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Good luck with your marathon training! I’m doing a half end of November. I stick with the cross training and strength too. I’m with you on the eating! Maybe I need to try your idea of posting notes around, lol. Help keep me in check will you? Have a few pounds to reload and portions are my biggest focus too. I will be trying dairy free, though, because sinus allergies have been acting up and it appears linked to dairy protein consumption.
You’ll be running that marathon about the same time I run my 2nd half marathon! We can rock them together (although, mine is Tinker Bell and I definitely won’t be running it for time – it’ll be all about fun and photo ops!)
I need to get the eating in check too. I’m at my heaviest in For.Ev.Er and I HATE it. I know some is stress from my marathon coming up and being sick and not running all last week, but still. It frigging SUCKS.
Can’t wait to follow your training…you are gonna be great! Love your idea of post it notes to remind you to not eat crap! I need to steal that idea!
So, how many races will you have done by the end of the year? You are amazing.
I’m goiing to love following you’re training. Now go drink some water! NOW