Mar. 4 - 10, 2010
Running
- Tuesday, March 5: 5EA, target pace 11:56, splits 11:42, 11:50, 11:53, 11:55, 12:14. Route: around the neighborhood. Actually only 4.82 miles - see below.
- Wednesday, March 6: 0.5WU + 5.5 M-tempo. M-tempo target pace 9:56, splits 9:53, 9:55, 9:51, 9:51, 9:52, 9:50. HS track. Windchill 19 F.
- Thursday, March 7: 5EA, target pace 11:56, splits 11:46, 11:57, 11:48, 11:49, 11:51. Route: around the neighborhood.
- Saturday, March 9: 5EA, target pace 11:56, splits 11:47, 11:44, 11:51, 11:51, 11:49. Route: Sligo Creek Trail, going north.
- Sunday, March 10: 5 EB, target pace 11:08, splits 11:15, 11:00, 10:56, 10:58, 10:54. Route: Rock Creek Trail, going north. My GPS was really playing games with this one. I can see on the map how it has me going way off trail randomly; my lap pace would suddenly slow way down for no reason.
Tuesday night's run ended at 4.82 miles when I tripped over a protruding sidewalk edge that I have purposely missed about 100 times (literally) this winter. Caught myself on my hands and really scraped them up. That's when I made a bad decision: it was dark, so I decided to shine my running light on my hands to see how bad they were. Not a good idea, because they were bleeding, and I tend to faint at the sight of blood coming out of wounds, especially out of MY wounds. I immediately got lightheaded. Sat on the sidewalk for a bit with my head down, but it was too cold to do that for long. I was literally only a 3-minute walk from my house, but I only managed to stagger about 10 feet before I knew I had to sit down again before I passed out. Ended up calling my husband to pick me up for the shortest rescue ever. But he's not going to let me live that down for awhile! The scrapes were all superficial, but messy. As I write this 5 days later, they are still sore, but healing up.
Other
- Monday, March 4: walked on the treadmill after work
- Tuesday, March 5, morning: Shanks workout 1 - increased reps by 1 in each set - foam rolling and stretching
- Wednesday, March 6, morning: prehab routine and foam rolling and stretching
- Thursday, March 7, morning: didn't think my hands would like pull-ups and heavy weights, so I skipped the lifting and just did some foam rolling and stretching
- Friday, March 8:
- morning: foam rolling and stretching
- evening: tennis doubles match. Gripping was a bit painful, but fortunately my right hand didn't get scraped up as badly. My partner and I won our match, and our team won overall!
- Saturday, March 9: tennis live ball clinic in the morning, 90 minutes
- Sunday, March 10: walked on the treadmill after dinner
Health
- My last PT visit was Monday morning. The PT was apologetic that she couldn't help more with my headache. I did all my stretching religiously, and she was certainly working at it, so I feel like both of us did our best. I am meeting with the neurologist again on March 19, and I'll see what he wants to do next.
- Slipped on the stairs today while carrying a full laundry basket. Stupid. Didn't hurt much except my pride, and a bit of a knock on the back of the head. Sigh.
- My headache has been much worse, starting Tuesday evening. That was after my fall on the sidewalk. Coincidence or not? Dunno. I certainly didn't hit my head, but maybe I jarred my neck or something. It just makes me feel tired and blah. Then after my slip on the stairs today, the headache has been killer, but I suppose that's reasonable. Hopefully tomorrow will be better.
- Good news: my bloodtest on Thursday showed that my liver seems to be back to normal with the different muscle relaxer drug. So one fewer worry.
Overall, I am getting really excited for my race! I feel like this training cycle went really well, so I am looking forward to a strong race. It would just be nice if my headache wasn't so bad. At least I don't tend to notice it as much when I am running.
I am heading to Virginia Beach on Saturday afternoon to pick up my bib. Since I will be doing the carb-loading, I'll be bringing all my food for Saturday with me. My hotel room has a fridge and microwave, so I'm also going to bring all my breakfast foods, so I can have my usual breakfast. I will be making the trip alone, as my husband doesn't care to come along and just wait for my race to finish. The race is Sunday morning at 7:30am - a reasonably civilized time!