I am thankful to God for giving me a very adaptable body. This week was much better than last in terms of difficulty of training and ability to push. Just thinking back to the week before that and my first day back to training I remember struggling to finish a 35 minute run. But yesterday is proof that I'm getting back in shape quickly, I just need to make sure I don't get back into it too fast and risk injury.
Monday
I put on my Vibrams for a nice evening run around town from home down Marshall to California Drive until Peabody. I followed Peabody to Foxboro up to Nut Tree back to Marshall and back Home. It was just over 8 miles and my calves were very tired from running it in my Vibram FiveFingers. I put in some core work afterwards, drank some chocolate milk, and called it a night.
Tuesday
Today I just needed to recover from running 8 miles in Vibrams on Concrete and Asphalt so I went out from home around the Lagoon and back for about 5 miles of easy running.
Wednesday
I was still a bit tired from Monday and recovering so I went for an easy run down Marshall Road until it dead ends onto Leisuretown road and back for a total of about 7 miles.
Thursday
I've decided to do some hill repeats each week and Thursday was the day that drew that luck. So I threw on my Vibrams again and headed out to the Lagoon and Big Mama. Its funny, I used to fear this hill in high school (well fear is too strong, maybe dread or strongly dislike) and the day once a season where we would do 8 hill repeats. Today I did 10 and I'm just getting back into it. Over this past winter I did one workout where I did 35 Big Mama repeats. I probably won't get to that many before I leave again trying to stay healthy, uninjured, but strong. I shouldn't have done it so close to dusk though, the bugs were annoying, but luckily it was very windy on the hilltops so the bugs were only at the bottom. I did some more core work getting home and finished off with a glass of chocolate milk.
Friday
I wasn't all that tired from the hills, at least not compared to how I would get in high school. But today was another recovery day and since I'm just getting started my recoveries shouldn't be too long until I really start amping up the mileage. Another out and around the lagoon and back today.
Saturday
This was truly the most interesting run I've been on in a while. I went out to Radio Tower Hill in Lagoon Valley. It is 1.5 miles from bottom to top with fairly steep uphill most of the way with two brief reliefs along the way. The last part is particularly annoying because its the steepest and you're already tired. There was some spiritual battle going on there too and if you want to hear about that check out my other blog <a href="http://forhisgloriousname.blogspot.com/2011/05/when-god-isnt-speaking.html">here</a>. There was a bike race going on up the side trails(the end of the race anyhow) along this road up to the radio tower and I must say I did not envy them. It is much more difficult to ride a bike up a steep hill than run up one. Granted their way down was much easier than mine I still wouldn't like doing that. I also ran into Cheynne Inman who was volunteering at the race near the top of the hill. We talked for a few moments and we should be able to get together in the near future to run together, though I'm sure he puts in a great many more miles than I do and will be further past where I'm at right now. Anyhow, it was a great day as I ran up the hill three times for a run that turned out to be just under 90 minutes and somewhere between 9 and 10 miles with 50 minutes of that being uphill running, so not bad. I again returned home did pushups and static core work and drank chocolate milk.
So I'm up to almost 40 miles this week which isn't too bad for my second full week back in training. I'll gradually build it up to around 80-90 miles a week hopefully in about 2 months to really build a good base before we start with Cross Country this fall in Canada.
Running Toward God,
Jason
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