Doing Great!
Another exciting week has begun – LOL! I say it’s exciting because I might be driven insane at work. It’s time for the annual “Securities Lending Offsite” – 2 days of teambuilding for the managers preceded by a day of complete annoyance for me, which of course is today. This year Human Resources will supposedly be taking care of everything. HA! They don’t know my boss the way I do. The last 2 years I was here until after 9:00 pm getting everything pulled together. I don’t think it will be that bad this year, but it will still be plenty annoying.
Anyway, I had quite the big weekend for exercise. On Friday I saw Jane in the morning. We did my workout over at the Boston Common, right next to Charles Street where everyone driving by could see me doing my hopping, skipping and jumping warm-up. We had way more room than we usually do at the gym, which meant I worked out much harder than normal.
I was already pretty sore and tired on Saturday morning, but I had to do my long run with Team in Training. It was supposed to be 10 miles – I ended up doing 9.15. I was supposed to take another loop around the Common, but since I had already done hills the day before I only did one loop. I ran a lot with the same girls from a couple of weeks ago, and another one of their friends. She was pretty speedy – my first mile split was 12:15, which is super fast for me. My second mile was 12:30, and then it was pretty much all downhill (ha, ha) from there. I had to take a walk break, so she sped up to run with the other girls. I caught up with them near the Esplanade because we decided to wait for a few other girls who were behind me. Mind you – this made me pretty happy. It’s good to know I’m not the slowest! Although, these girls are only running the half so they just had to do 6 miles.
I run into problems – well, not really problems, it just slows my time down – at the water stops. I spend about 5 minutes or so at each one just visiting and getting to know the mentors. I guess I should stop my Garmin so it doesn’t seem like it’s taking me forever to complete my miles. However, it’s good to make friends!
I felt pretty good up until mile 7.5 or so. I decided to keep going at mile 6, where I could have crossed back over the bridge to Cambridge, but went further down the Charles to River Street and crossed back over there. My left Achilles was getting tired and achy, so I pretty much walked the last 1.5. I really need to get one of those Achilles support thingies.
I am happy to tell you that I’ve finally found the answer to my feet blister issues. Taping! I started putting tape (I got some Leukotape from Zombie Runner) everywhere on my feet that have blistered in the past, and I also got some Sole socks.
Needless to say, I was pretty sore afterward. I hadn’t run that far since the half mary back in May. I made sure to ice my knee and Achilles after I took a shower, and then rested Saturday afternoon.
Yesterday I decided to go to the gym because I didn’t think I’d be able to go today. I did 30 minutes on the treadmill, then about 45 minutes of strength training followed by 30 minutes on the crosstrainer. I guess I was feeling pretty motivated!!
This week I’m seeing Tara tomorrow morning and Jane on Friday morning. On Wednesday I have 5 miles of hill running to do. I need to get up early so I can go to the Common as there is quite the lovely hill to run up and down! On Saturday we’re heading up to Vermont since I have the Stowe 8 Miler on Sunday. I’d like to finish in under 2 hours – we’ll see how it goes.
Tigger is all better – he was practically sitting on my lap this morning trying to get a bite of my English muffin with peanut butter.
Make it a great week everyone!!