This month was much of the same as January. We continued to focus base building and easy running. Lather, Rinse, Repeat. That doesn’t mean this month was any less interesting. I got yelled at for not taking an off day for 3 weeks, had an overall bad week, and my attempt at scheduling mandatory time to “hangout and relax” suddenly became negotiable.
After coming back from my annual 5 day trip to Snowshoe I felt pretty lazy from not doing a scheduled workout so I hit the ground running when I got back. All workouts were completed (save a yoga session here and there) and if it was on the schedule I did it. By the time I got to that third week I was feeling it. Kind of laboring through intervals, needing an extra hour of sleep, etc. That fact came up in conversation over some beer and my running buddy and Voice of Reason proceeded to give me the stink eye and yelled at me and told me I needed to rest. She might of even raised her hand like she was gonna slap me (details fuzzy, we drank a lot that night). Conveniently she left for vacation and our Monday run was scrapped so I decided to stay home and put my feet up. I can’t believe how much better I felt that Tuesday after not doing anything roughly 36 hours. Lessoned learned = there is a still a long way to go, no need to burn out this early.
I also had my first bad week. I didn’t do either yoga workout, didn’t do the optional run on Monday, and I went out and had a little too much fun Friday night and missed my Saturday morning spin session. Capped that off by trying to add the Saturday workout to my Sunday swim and run and ended up mailing it in after an hour. Needless to say I wasn’t happy. But my coach and VoR both told me to chill out and get back on track the next week which is exactly what I did.
Ummm, yeah …. So much for mandatory “play time.” I signed up for skeeball on Thursday nights with the best of intentions and I made it out for the first 4 weeks. But after that I scheduled my workouts a little differently and just didn’t feel like I had the time to go have a few beers. This doesn’t mean I haven’t gone out and enjoyed the occasional beer, it’s just that I’ve learned that I steal that time when I can and it definitely cannot be scheduled. The biggest difficulty here is that my “free to have a drink” time doesn’t line up with anyone else’s. While I’m going to bed early on Friday and Saturday for morning workouts, everyone I know is just getting ready to go out. By the time Sunday comes around and I can hangout because Monday is an off day, no one is in the mood to do anything.
Lastly, I got to do my first race as a member of Team FeXY. We had 3 relay teams and a few individuals head up to Greenbelt, MD for the GW Birthday Marathon. Knowing I had a marathon coming up I elected to run 2 of the 3 relay legs and this ridiculously hilly and boring course. But the best part was hanging out with everyone waiting to run and then having everyone still waiting in the relay exchange until everyone passed before heading over to the finish to cheer everyone on there. And of course, wings and beer afterwards.
So what next? My ATP says that the real fun is about to begin. Time to start the build phases where volume and intensity increases. Less time for socializing, more time for sleeping. I do get to race soon and because I’m so late with this post I’ve already run the B&A Trail Marathon (race report forthcoming).
March will be fun …. More fun. Really looking forward to it.
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