Third Week of Running

Blogging about running has little interest for me. Yet, while I’m running I find a million thoughts running through my head. There’s something about pounding out miles that frees the mind to wander, wonder, and worship.

The first week I could really feel my legs. Every run made the mornings a little tighter. Stretching and foam rolling helped.

The second week I increased mileage slightly and focused on increasing distance. With one rainy day my second week was two 6+ mile runs, two 2 mile runs, and P.A.P. Upper from P90X2. The DVD sure made my core sore! Funny how you think of running as being overall fitness; but it’s not. It takes running to improve running, but it takes other total body routines to improve the total body. Seems obvious when written.

Week three has me again increasing mileage and working on distance runs. The common marathon training mindset is to take an off week or light week the week of the race. Since my training is only 4 weeks long I won’t be doing that. I plan on my “long run” for week 4 being the half marathon. This week I’ll be shooting for 9 or 10 miles on Friday. This morning’s 6.5 miles felt really good and I think I could have gone longer, but my still-slow pace only allows a max of 7 miles before I need to get ready for work. Friday’s long run is courtesy of Arbor Day. Yay, Nebraska!