Next Saturday is the Love em or Leave em Valentines Day Dash at Green Lake. We have been keeping up on our training and we are getting a little longer and stronger.
This week was a little rough but we got through it. I mentioned before that Lisa has been having some trouble with her calf cramping up during the run. We've been researching what to do about it and how to treat it and I think we may have found some help. Lisa did a web search and came across another runner that described what Lisa has been feeling exactly. The other runner said that she was diagnosed with achilles tendinitis and the best treatment was alternating ice and heat. So beginning Thursday night and whenever she could on Friday and Saturday she started doing this and it seems to have paid off on our run Saturday.
The other thing we changed about our runs that seems to have taken a lot of pressure off is that we aren't being so rigid on the actual time we are running. This probably needs some explanation. We are on a training plan that is based on set times for the first 10 or 11 weeks. This means that one day our time goal was 20 minutes. The next run may go up to 25 and so on... We felt this pressure that we had to run this amount of time or we were doing something wrong or not succeeding or something. On Thursday as we were struggling to finish 30 minutes and Lisa was in a fair amount of pain she had the great idea that we didn't need to be a slave to the clock. In all our previous runs we would always stay together and it was very difficult. So we decided that we would start out together and if one of us needed a little walk break and the other didn't then that was fine. So now, instead of being joined at the hip, so to speak we are sort of leap frogging each other along the trail. We still workout for a set time or mileage period so that hasn't changed, just the way we do it. We did this for the first time on Saturday and I think we both enjoyed our workout a lot more. Not that we didn't like running together but this just seemed to allow us to tailor our workout to what our body was telling us. Plus as I mentioned Lisa wasn't suffering the pain she had been feeling and that made it better for her.
At one point on the Saturday run I was a ways back and Lisa was walking. I kept telling myself I'd take a little walk break when I caught up to her... The problem was she wouldn't stop moving. Took me a longer than I wanted before I got my little break. The other thing I noticed is that without the calf pain she is faster than I am. When we were both running she was always bit ahead of me and pulling away. I guess I need to work harder to keep up...
Not sure if I'll get another post up before the run next week. I'll for sure get something up afterwards and share the experience.
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