Disney 2010 - Training Week 12

This week is Thanksgiving...so I am going to dedicate this week to my wonderful kiddos! It seems only appropriate since I am most thankful that God gave me these two perfect children. The have always given me a reason to try harder, to do better, to reach higher.

(Planned) / [Actual]

Sunday: off

Monday: (6mi) / [3mi]

For some reason, I am completely and utterly exhausted today. I can barely hold my eyes open. I have sat here at this computer all day and not done half of what I am capable of, i dont know why my brain never turned on. But I am also STARVING! I have eaten all of my regular food, plus all the leftovers from dinner last night! I should have finished the mileage this morning..but I just didn't...just couldn't... I just want to go back to bed!

Water is good though....as I have been trying (unsuccessfully) to ward off the hunger!

Tuesday: off - traveling

Wednesday: (6mi)

Thursday: (6mi)

Friday: (6 mi)

Saturday: off - traveling

(24mi) / []

disney 2010 - Training Week 11

Tomorrow will be a pretty full day with a long run, and a long drive to get there, so I thought I would go ahead and blog next week's plan today.

Next week is for my love... my number one supporter...the one that showed me how strong I can be by just believing in me, always.

Plan:

Monday: xtrn (am) / ST front & core in the p.m.

Actual: What was I thinking? I rested today...

I wasn't really hungry, but I ate anyway...probably more than I should have.

Water was not as much as I should have, but some

Sleep was right on, making up lost time, around 9hrs last night.

Tuesday: 6 miles (am) / yoga p.m.

Actual: Only yoga due to NO sleep last night. Yoga felt good on my sore legs though.

Food: 2 waffles w/ PB & 1/2 banana, coffee, clif bar, coffee, Kashi hot cereal (2), coffee, grapes & strawberries w/ ff cottage cheese, boca on thin bread w/ cheese, mayo, lettuce, onion, sour cream potato chips

Wednesday: xtrn (am) / 3 mi + ST back & core in the p.m.

Actual: 5 mi in 47:40, only 3 min cooldown.

Food for today includes oats, coffee, clif bar, coffee, apple, tuna salad on rye wrap, baked organic chips, 2 cookies, yogurt, berries, granola, coffee... chicken maranara.

splits:

5

-1

0:50:39

9:44

170

157

560

67

90.00%

6:00 PM

9:56

9:39

9:27

9:07

9:27

Thursday: 7 miles (am) / yoga p.m.

Actual: 4 mi / Yoga

Friday: xtrn (am)

Actual: Rest

Saturday: 20 mi (am)

Actual: 20 miles @ 11:27 (walked almost 3 miles of it). Splits:

6:45 AM

10:42

10:34

11:15

10:40

11:02

11:01

11:13

11:25

10:44

11:21

11:23

11:37

10:09

11:24

11:22

13:50

10:09

12:28

10:32

16:08

The 20 miler on Saturday was... NOT FUN. The weather was 70s, 100% humidity - so not too bad. I was out until after midnight friday night so, again, I was low on sleep. We took it nice and easy, stopped at 3 stations (7 mi / 12 mi (1 gel here) / 16 mi), we walked some, and we eventually made it! I had 7 X 8oz gatoraids and 3 X 8 oz water. 0.5 clif bar (no coffee, I was running late) prerun, the other .5 post run.

• 1/5 cup egg whites, 1 oz lf cheddar, onions & peppers, wrap for lunch.
• 1/2 tomato and goat cheese pizza, salad w/ feta, oil & vinegar
• 1 churro, 1 coffee

Weekly wrap-up: This week has been challenging. Matt passed a kidney stone along with a couple other issues, on top of last weekend's 3am wake for the 30K race and my sleep has been lacking - a LOT! Monday I was SORE from Sunday's race. Tuesday and Wednesday I was so tired I did good to get anything done. Friday was... Matt's day off... and also, a mentally challenging day knowing I was looking 20 miles in the face.

Disney 2010 - Training Week 10

This week is for my SUPER running partner Jeanine! Thanks for sticking it out and planning to run this race with me!

Week 9 was a fabulous week for me. I didn't do the ST or all of the runs, but I got 35 miles logged! And the long run was GREAT, so we are signing up for the 30K next weekend :)

Day: Monday

Prev. Night sleep: 8

Water: yes

Vitamins: no

Food Breakdown (cal/carb/pro/fat): ? I must get back to this.

Planned: 7 mi @ 10:50

Actual: 7.25 mi @ 10:07

splits: 11:29 / 9:16 / 10:00 / 8:54 / 9:46 / 9:35 / 9:28 / 14:34

First 4 in the a.m. (8:54 - RAWK!), last 3 intervals between ST sets in the p.m.

Food was more protein today. eggs, cheese, hummus, fish, potatoes and salad for dinner.

First 4

Day: Tuesday

Prev. Night sleep: 8

Water: no

Vitamins: no

Food Breakdown (cal/carb/pro/fat):

Planned: Xtrn / yoga

Actual: 75 mins xtrnr, but no yoga -road closed due to wreck, too late for class :(

Day: Wednesday

Prev. Night sleep: 7ish (? woke up before alarm)

Water: not enough

Vitamins: nope

Food Breakdown (cal/carb/pro/fat):

Planned: 8 mi total, 6 @ 9:31

Actual: 2 mi + 40 mins on elliptical. (little short anyway you slice it)

Daily update: Kids were home ate too much, not junk though. belly feels huge. didn't feel it on the run so changed things up. sweated profusely, just not lady-like at all. oh yeh, and my garmin died, so I really couldn't tell how hard I was working.

Day: Thursday

Prev. Night sleep: 7-8, I think... I keep waking up in the middle of the night and have trouble going back to sleep, I dont know how long I was awake. It seemed like it took forever.

Water:

Vitamins:

Food Breakdown (cal/carb/pro/fat):

Planned: 6 mi @ 10:50 / yoga

Day: Friday

Prev. Night sleep:

Water:

Vitamins:

Food Breakdown (cal/carb/pro/fat):

Planned: Xtrn

Day: Saturday

Prev. Night sleep: 8ish

Water: ? probably not, I dont remember

Vitamins: yes

Food Breakdown (cal/carb/pro/fat):

Planned: off

Day: Sunday

Prev. Night sleep: 3.5-4 hrs

Water: not sure, all water/gatoraid stops, plus 4 8oz containers

Vitamins:

Food Breakdown (cal/carb/pro/fat):

Planned: Paul Debruyn Memorial 30K (WOW)

Actual: Done @ ~10:29 pace

Splits: 9:42/ 9:59 / 10:06 / 10:01 / 10:06 / 10:06 / 10:10 / 10:00 / 10:09 / 10:30 / 10:15 / 10:27 / 10:36 / 11:18 (taking photos :) / 10:55 / 10:17 / 10:58 (dying) / 10:38 (trying to recover) / 9:49

See race report for more details.