Well, on with the training! This week is week 1 of my 18 week training for my MARATHON!! Sometimes I can't believe I'm ACTUALLY doing this. This whole experience is just awesome. For the past few weeks we were just out "getting our miles in" and it was starting to get boring. I felt my body changing. Getting a little more jiggly and weak. Our miles weren't short but they weren't that long either. AND they weren't fast. Already after 2 runs this week I'm feeling more excited. we are running around 9 minute miles for several miles. It's awesome.
Monday- 3 miles - 27 minutes
Tuesday- 5 miles - 45 minutes
I feel so great! I forget that I love going fast. In high school, the one year I ran track, I ran sprints. Nothing over 400 meters. I'm a sprinter. So now I need to keep my speed but obviously build my endurance. I love what running has been able to do for me. Just "getting my miles in" is nice but I definitely like training mode and pushing myself for a time.
I've started counting calories again. That is hard work! Not so much the counting, but actually getting the correct amount in one day. I'm a horrible eater...under eat...so it's hard coming up with calories. Monday I only got in 1500 calories out of the 2300 I'm supposed to get. Yesterday was better...2100 but I felt like I ate Thanksgiving dinner the whole day. Hoping my body adjusts. It's fun though. It keeps things real and motivated. I'm excited for these next few months. I'm going to take some before photos today and then again after my marathon. We, I keep saying "we" cuz I'm doing all this with a friend, are going to be running SOOO much this summer. 3 weeks of 50 miles a week. Our Saturday runs are mostly all about 10 miles. It's so awesome to think I'm doing this when just 8 months ago, I could hardly run ONE MILE. I'm stocked! I'm going to pick up my "Weekly Miles" post I had been posting on Sundays so I can keep track of miles ran and times.
Wish me luck! <3
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