Weekend Training...

I completed both of my runs this weekend. That means week one of marathon training was a total success. I ran all of the required miles and was able to get in my upper body workouts (I am doubtful this trend will hold as my mileage increases).

I was able to work out upper body twice this weekend since Friday was a running "rest" day. I went to the gym straight after work and then celebrated my brother's and future brother in law's birthday with some gross Pizza Hut pizza. How anyone could call that crap their favorite pizza amazes me. I use to like Domino's until the video of the two idiot employees spraying bodily fluids all over their customer's pizza surfaced. I do not care if they gave me twenty dollars for every pizza I ordered, I doubt I am going to ever frequent the Noid's favorite pizza place again.

I woke up abnormally early on Saturday, 7:00am, and went running with my wife over on Main St. in Daphne. I decided to switch up locations because I was tired of dealing with two huge hills on every run (my main course has big hills going each way), and I wanted to try something new. I am glad I did because running on Main St. was peaceful, beautiful and FLAT. I ran the three miles slightly faster than the "Easy" run I had on Thursday. I also managed to get some new ear buds for my ipod so this run was far more enjoyable. I started the run keeping pace with my wife to keep the pace easy, but ultimately decided I wanted to "run" when the faster music in my ipod started playing. We finished the run pretty easily and timely.

Later that day we went and saw Angels and Demons. I really enjoyed the movie and am glad I was not able to finish reading the book in law school. I thought the Da Vinci Code movie stunk and I attribute those feelings directly to having read the book prior to seeing the movie. I was unable to finish reading Angels because I had law school finals to prepare for and did not have the time or the ocular ability to read for pleasure while also reading for school.

I woke up pretty early on Sunday, 7:30, and went straight to tackle my long run of the week (a scant four miles). My wife decided to join me and we ran on Main St. again. I mapped a four mile course out on mapmyrun.com. I knew Sunday was going to stink because I was running four miles for the first time, and because I was going to work out upper body that afternoon so that I could get all of my workouts for the week in. I told BW to just run where we did the day before and that I was going to go a half mile ahead and turn back around to meet her at the finish. I was even so bold as to tell her that "I will give you some water if you need it when I turn back around and meet you at mile 1.5".

This run started at the bottom of a hill so I was a little winded heading into the first mile. I ran at my normal pace, not easy, and managed to get to 1.5 without any major issues. I did, however, decide to slow it down for the next mile so that I would be able to run back to the car without having to stop (pride dictates that a male runner can never get so exhausted that he has to walk during a run...that would simply be too embarrassing). By the time I made it back to the 1.5 mile marker, BW was nowhere in site. I knew then that I had run that mile pretty slow and that I had overestimated my running prowess compared to BW's (next time I will let her carry the keys so that she can have some water without waiting on Turtle Waller). The rest of the run was pretty uneventful and I finished it up in forty four minutes. I was pretty pissed about the time but assured myself that I ran one of the miles at a slow pace.

We then went home, ate breakfast and chilled until 12:30. I then went to the YMCA, did my upper body workout and came home.

My schedule for this week is:

Monday Off

Tuesday 4 miles at the trails with coach (and hopefully upper)

Wednesday off for Court

Thursday 3 miles easy (upper body definitely)

Friday Off

Saturday 3 miles easy (upper body definitely)

Sunday 4 miles easy

Tuesday is going to be a bad day because trail running stinks and I am training with coach. I am sure he will not let me run that one "Easy". Hopefully I will not blow my wad doing something stupid like last Monday.