#rainyruns

I took off Wednesday instead of Friday and made my Thursday workout my "cross training day." This makes today, not an off day, but a Key Run Day!

I ran with my friend Katie which was wonderful. I think we're going to try to do 1-2 workouts a week together. Today was supposed to be a 2 mile warm up, a 3 mile tempo and a one mile cool down.

We changed it a little because we did a loop around our school...but forgot to start the RunKeeper...woops! So we just did the first loop of 3 miles then did the next loop at tempo.

Ended up being good, but our temp was pretty slow. The fastest mile we did was 9:24...but it is a work in progress haha. Im proud of us though :) We did a good 6 mile workout!

3.17 miles and 45 minutes of plyos!

Interesting range of exercising happened yesterday!

I got home from my run and tried to get out there ASAP because it was threatening to rain. I decided to put on my rain jacket because I wanted to run with my iPhone. That was dumb. After about a mile I was burning up under my jacket but it wasn’t raining so it was pointless. So I ended up tying it around my waist and going from there. But the last mile or so it was worth it because it did end up raining pretty hard. I was happy I had my jacket to keep my phone dry.

I sat down and ate a full yummy salad. For some reason right after I run, I don’t like to eat a heavy meal, so a salad it was! I had a tug work-out in an hour and a half so I decided just to not shower, hehe EW. I read  “Eat, Pray, Love” for an hour and a half then went to plyos with my tug team.  We did lunches, side lunges, abs (planks, 6 inches, flutter kicks), burpees, mountain climbers, ski jumps, side to side jumps, and a 10 minute wall sit!

I woke up sore this morning but a good sore. Not debilitating but a good sore.

So I did my Key Run #1 inside again because Atlanta weather is gross during this time of the year :( It stinks because since I get home later from work by the time that I get back, I have an hour window to do my workout or else it is too dark…on top of the fact that it  was raining. So…track we go!

I did my workout with my little little little (yup I’m a sorority girl) because she is running the marathon with me! I think since I have a partner for this thing it is going to make achieving my goal all the more plausible :)

Our workout was 10 minute warm up then 4 x (3 minutes on 3 minutes off) then a 10 minute cool down. Definitely a toughie. But I am growing fond of these tough workouts. 

Finished our workout in 44 minutes, then went home and here’s where the night goes sour. I had fried chicken for dinner (meal plan…delicious, but terrible for you) then had a date night for our sorority and got a leetle bit drunk and blew my workout even more with drunchie pizza. Fail Emily, fail. 

On the cool side of the night though, earlier this month (last month I guess) I emailed my xc coach from highschool about advice and he emailed me back! Here’s a little advice he had for me.. I’m going to leave his name anonymous :)

“Don’t get hurt.  Consistency is the key as always.  Embrace the process! 

You will have bad runs and workouts.  It is not the end of the world.  You will have bad miles in the race too.  Same thing, not the end of the world!

Run with someone.

On the long days make sure to loop back and get fluids.

Watch your diet.  You may need to eat more since you are running more.  You may start to lose weight.  Not sure as every one adapts differently but garbage in equals garbage out!

Nail your long runs.  Make these the focus of your training and sacrifice for them.  You need them for the mental toughness and physical wear and tear. “