So Much for a Day Off
// January 12th, 2012 // Uncategorized
I was bummed out because I couldn’t do my long run on Monday (1/9) so I substituted that cardio/legs workout from Insanity–I thought it would essentially be a day off.
Holy Crow! I woke up the next morning hobbling. My thighs were smoked, my calves shot and my butt-OUCH! Anyway, then yesterday I did my 14.5 mile run and was a mess by mile 8. I finished decently but man…
Today I’d planned to do a hill workout (tough on legs/butt) but I am just now (10pm on 1/11) beginning to walk somewhat normally. I’ll do a “recovery” run tomorrow of about 4 miles just to flush all of the lactic acid and then get a good stretch in.
Two things:
I’m nursing a really sore left hamstring. I can feel it wanting to become an injury so I have to be very careful. This training and this race (and this life) are long term events.
I’m training concurrently for the stair climb up the Corning Tower in Albany, NY. I came in 7th last year and think I can do even better. So I’ll be doing more varied workouts to work my thighs/short term anaerobic cardio endurance.
I bought compression pants. I wasn’t sure about them but I think they do help.
