So last night I had one of my best runs in a long time...sure it was only 3km but it was a tempo run and I've never run so fast before. I averaged a 10:40 minute mile pace for the whole run and for me that's freaking amazing! I was totally stoked!!
Then at about 3am I was awakened with one heck of a back spasm. Basically my glutes cramped up and left me alternating between the heating pad and walking circles of the house to loosen them up. It sucked. However by mid day I was feeling more human so I decided to hammer out on my calendar what my training schedule is going to be like for my first full marathon.
That's when I realized my clinic for my winter half is going to overlap my full marathon clinic by almost 2 months. Say WHA? Okay I can do this...let's just write it all down so I can see what I'm dealing with.
Biggest mistake ever. To look at it all laid out like that has created the most gigantic 'holy shit' feeling I've ever had. I'm terrified...then I realized I'm going to be training like a crazy woman through January and February to make sure I hit both goals. GULP. Calm down. I can do this.
Then I realized that for my first grown up, big girl, hotspot vacation I'm going to have to do not one major LSD but two. An 18km and a 20km. Not to mention 10km Tempo runs (Holy poopers!!! Can even do that???) and Speed work.
Look I know there's a track on board not to mention treadmills, but I'd really, kinda hoped to truly enjoy this vacation...so now I'm going to have to figure out a balance. It's all good...really...but I think I should have waited to lay everything out...then again this has made me realize that there's no way I can afford to miss any of my cross training/core strengthening sessions right now...no matter how tired or sore I am.
I'm scared.
...but I will do this...
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