August 14, 2017

CIM Marathon Training Week 2

Happy Monday!

I hope you all had a great weekend! Henri and I made it to church for the first time in a while and spent a good amount of time cleaning and organizing the house so I’m starting the new week feeling refreshed! I’m really thankful for that because when my alarm went off at 4:45am this morning for the FIRST CROSS COUNTRY PRACTICE of the season I was actually ready to face the day. It’s always easy to get out of bed when you already know your coffee is brewing downstairs. 🙂

Last week was week #2 of my 18 week lead up to CIM (California International Marathon) in December. Week #1 was all about getting in easy mileage after a week completely off from running so it was nice to mix in two workouts and a long run this past week. It’s crazy how at the beginning of marathon training 10 miles will feel like an eternity and somehow 10 weeks down the road I’ll be running double that, maybe even more!

The thing I’m loving the most about my recent training is finally having a coach again. In the past when I’ve coached myself I’ve succumb to one of two things…

1 – I can’t get myself motivated to do hard workouts and just end up running easy and not doing many races.

2 – I spend so much time stressing out about creating “the perfect training plan” that I’m always questioning if I’m doing the right workouts that I don’t have enough time/energy left to pour into the actual training.

The best thing about having a coach is that I can fully trust him to create the right plan for me (he has a great track record with some girls I know that have run big PRs under him) and I just have to worry about executing the workouts/runs he assigns to me. Which also frees up some time for me to do the important ancillary things to training like sleep, ice bath, foam roll, stretch, strength train, etc. <– now if only I can get myself to do those things! They are key but so so difficult for me to fit into my schedule…